Time was when being an entrepreneur or an achiever, was something that was frowned upon by “the snobs at the top and those who where envious at the bottom,” says Jeffrey […]
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collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on earth. It is the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published.
You know how sometimes when you put your foot in your mouth and say something really stupid, you try to recover but only stammer out something even dumber and […]
We do at this point in time need a new Einstein. The one thing that Einstein did, which is so powerful and important in the history of physics is with […]
More Africans are moving to large cities, and some are bringing their livestock with them, along with an increased risk of disease. Rather than banning the animals entirely, Kenyan officials came up with a different solution.
A UN agency reports that outbound travel spending jumped a whopping 40 percent last year, putting the Chinese far ahead of both Germans and Americans.
The hedgehog probes deeply and narrowly; the fox skims lightly and broadly.
With our increasingly global 21st century making the traditional college quadrangle look a little parochial, the Minerva vision is an intriguing development.
In America, brain games have become a multi-million dollar industry that has infiltrated schools and nursing homes, but a new meta-study of their effects throws big assumptions into question.
Recent advances in brain-computer interfaces, which may facilitate brain-brain communication, raise the specter of comic book heroes who effortlessly “talk” to each other without talking at all.
Scientists have identified a set of stem cells capable of generating new neurons in the brain which regulate appetite, overturning the idea that one’s desire for food was fixed by genetics for a lifetime.
While apologizing may not always make us feel rosy and sure of ourselves, there are substantial societal benefits achieved through apology which help explain the importance of the behavior.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School, Boston, have successfully connected the minds of humans and rats such that the movement of the rats’ tails can be controlled by human thought.
I just returned from spending a weekend with my friend Peter Ragnar at his farm in Kentucky. Peter is a modern-day Shaman, Taoist wizard, natural life scientist, and “self-master” par […]
Did you see that photo of sharks allegedly swimming in a mall in Kuwait? Or the video of the eagle grabbing a baby in Montreal? Both must have been shared […]
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have discovered that individuals’ exhalations are as unique as their fingerprints, opening new avenues for medical diagnoses.
There were two really important elements that I discovered when I was looking at women’s history and the history of the women’s movement in the US. The first thing that […]
I don’t think of myself as a taste maker. I think of myself more as a bad taste maker. I’m very pro-bad taste. Bad taste is very important. It’s like […]
I don’t know that I have any ideas. I have notions maybe. I have curiosity. I have a deep appreciation for serendipity. I have a way of living my life, […]
I write this from Yangshuo, China where I am currently based studying Tai Chi and Internal Kungfu. My next journey is to the Wudangshan mountains in Hubei province. This is […]
The nocebo effect, in which patients experience adverse health consequences because they are susceptible to suggestion, has caused an increasingly large number of people to fear Wi-Fi signals.
A British company wants to bring the cooking pot, an essential tool that has remained basically unmodified for hundreds, if not thousands of years, into the present using smart technology.
To decrease the cost of health care, and improve the lives of patients, medical professionals are taking lessons from the developing world, where low-cost treatment is a basic requirement.
The lives of Americans aren’t slowing down, but as the national obesity epidemic has captured the media spotlight, mounting public concern has emerged over what we put into our bodies at mealtime.
When the only grandfather I ever knew came to this country from Germany he went to work in a glass factory. And I remember him sitting on the front porch […]
“Once you are a conscious being you have no choice but to be a change agent,” South African anti-apartheid heroine and academic Dr. Mamphela Ramphele told Charlie Rose—a rare male […]
Mobile phone technology built into the bracelet can send alerts if the worker is in trouble. Additionally, people can sign up to keep watch over individual workers through social media.
1. Cover Your Ears. Here’s What the Big Band Sounded Like: BANG! That audio recreation was made by the University of Washington physicist John Cramer, who notes that the sound frequencies […]
A paper published Thursday describes the use of carbon dating to determine the precise age of plants uncovered beneath a retreating Peruvian ice sheet at different points in time. The results demonstrate the speed at which the sheet is disappearing.
There really is a chance that some of the great scientific innovations that tech evangelists have been talking about will come true. But we can’t count on them.