More employers and employees are looking into using their own personal devices for work instead of a company computer. Writer Brian Proffitt looks at the benefits and challenges for both groups.
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We have not used the net to promote the kind of peer-to-peer economy that challenged feudalism in the 1100s and 1200s.
“Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Really?
We are testing what it is like to lose privacy now because if the species survives, we’ll develop a capability to not be embarrassed anymore.
Now that Russian scientists claim to have retrieved a vial of blood from a thawing wooly mammoth carcass from the permafrost of Siberia, the scientific community has been buzzing with speculation […]
Unlike the hard sciences, macroeconomics has no airtight laws (with the possible exception of the law of supply and demand).
“Lucien Freud said if you’re painting humans you have the best subject matter in the world. It’s so true. That’s the concept of [my] work. Everything has humanity in it,” […]
Researchers have launched a project that will figure out how to get the sensors we carry (or will carry) on our bodies to talk to each other, creating “cooperative interpersonal networks” that relay a wide range of data.
Scott Barry Kaufman (@sbkaufman) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYU, co-founder of The Creativity Post, Scientific American blogger, and a friend. He is also the author of Ungifted: Intelligence […]
While many colleges offer open online courses, Georgia Tech is the first to offer a full-credit graduate program. What’s more, the degree will cost about a quarter of those offered at traditional, onsite schools.
Optimistic reports of the recovering American economy, 70 percent of which relies on domestic consumption, overestimate the extent to which consumer spending is on the rebound.
most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet
This is not a moral appeal. This is not a political appeal. This is a linguistic appeal.
Big Idea: Economic and Institutional Flexibility
Which sayings are true, and which ones just sound nice?
More than 120,000 sites are operating in the .su domain space assigned to the former Soviet Union, and a significant number of them are up to no good. Getting rid of the suffix would be “a messy operation.”
Inspired by Zip Car and similar projects in Europe, Carrot is the first car-share enterprise in Mexico. From just three cars, the program has grown to 40 vehicles and has signed up 8,500 members.
Do PFC Bradley Manning’s actions constitute ‘aiding the enemy’?
On the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, creative protests are popping up around the Web as well as on the ground in mainland China.
Writer Tom Chatfield says no: Despite the proliferation of mobile devices, there are still people who appreciate the transporting experience that console gaming can provide.
The brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses – perhaps the hottest technological trend ever in the field of higher education – is disrupting more than just the conventional […]
Without owners, corporations run amok — like children without a chaperone.
A German drone narrowly missing a collision with an Afghan commercial aircraft carrying 100 passengers.
In their continuing efforts to warn us of the threats of climate change, researchers regularly note new harms being produced by a rapidly changing biosphere. Sometimes the threats are […]
Your market is no longer a domestic market. Your market is a global market.
I’ve got a roomful teachers everyday that help me do my job.
The self goes all the way out to the tongue sticking out and then back in.
“Turkish leader says protests will not stop plans for park,” read a New York Times headline Sunday. Meanwhile, throughout Istanbul, Ankara, and dozens of other cities across Turkey, Turkish citizens […]
As skill sets become increasingly more complex in the modern workplace, employers are working harder to guarantee the health of their employees further into the future to save on training costs.
China’s recent purchase of the Virginia-based Smithfield Hams, in what amounts to the largest corporate buyout to date of an American company by the Chinese, is just one of its many global investments.