Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson argues that we need to break out of our “A-to-B thinking” in order to bring big, audacious ideas into existence.
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For an additional fee (of course), passengers can sit in a “Quiet Zone” that’s separated from the rest of economy class by curtains, bathrooms, and softer lighting.
Some time in March a puff of white smoke will rise over St. Peter’s Square. Will it signal a Pope from Africa?
You run the innovation playbook – a prophetic strategy, a product development obstacle course of a process, a portfolio management radar detection system and a wide array of eccentric creativity […]
Chances are your company is one of the many taking a “wait and see” approach to one or more business issues right now. The approach plays out like this: “Should […]
“Ain’t got no rest in my slumbers/ Ain’t got no feelings to bruise/ Ain’t got no telephone numbers/ I ain’t got nothing but the blues,” goes Jazz composer Duke Ellington’s […]
Last Thursday, private vehicles were banned from the Colombian capital’s streets. It’s one of several attempts to decrease car traffic that have had mixed success.
The country’s projected to become the largest film market by 2020, and the effects are already being seen in various aspects of the industry, including investor funding and story choices.
Several high-profile projects that aim to replicate the processes of the human brain have recently received enormous grants. Still, completing the projects is not the ultimate goal, say researchers.
We used to live in a world where content producers chose the channels of distribution. Now the consumers choose.* That means the producer has to deliver the message over many […]
Driving one comes with incentives such as free street parking, free charging, and a nice tax break. Yet several barriers stand in the way of increased EV adoption.
Some things that you think happened to you probably didn’t. That’s just the nature of memory, says popular author and neurology professor Oliver Sacks, and that’s a good thing.
The origin of Valentine’s Day has nothing to do with love and everything to do with “torturous martyrdom.” On second thought, perhaps the origin of Valentine’s Day has a great deal to do with love.
The computational theory of the mind, which has come to dominate academic and popular circles, is increasingly inadequate to explain human behavior given what we know about animals.
Just before Valentine’s Day, Notre Dame researchers have looked more closely at what makes relationships tick. Similarities between partners remains the strongest force in selection.
Our current thinking on productivity demands us to be bigger, stronger, faster without regard to the fact that both time and energy are finite resources. To work better, relax more often.
During our research into the explosion in popularity of Conscious Media, we noticed a broad meta trend developing that circumscribes smaller conscious“food subcultures” – such as raw foodism, veganism or […]
This week The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda and the Battle for Arabia was released in the UK. For those wanting to get a sense of the book, I urge you […]
On Thursday, John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to be the new director of the CIA, went before the Senate Intelligence Committee to answer questions. I watched all three and-a-half hours […]
A special molecule has been found by scientists that activates the body’s own tumor killing system, causing the death of cancerous tissue in mice while preserving the integrity of healthy cells.
Researchers at NYU have begun the largest PTSD study of its kind, looking for biological indications of the disease hidden away in the brain, nervous system, and even the voice.
Scientists in the UK have tweaked an inkjet printer to facilitate the printing of three-dimensional cellular blobs which may be used to regenerate entire human organs for transplant.
There is something more at stake than achieving a personal best in our footraces. Something deeply human is behind our strong insistence at running through the pain and fatigue we cause ourselves.
In a study of twins from Malawi, scientists have concluded that a poor diet is not the only explanation for becoming malnourished. An imbalance of bacteria in the gut may be to blame.
Two projects welcome online submission of snow depth and other atmospheric conditions from average citizens.
We are going to create synthetic neocortexes in order to extend our own neocortexes.
One of Japan’s leading dailies teamed up with an advertising agency to create an app that translates articles into a more child-friendly format.
If you run into violinist Joshua Bell at a cocktail party, don’t tell him you find classical music ‘relaxing.’ “Beethoven’s symphonies are not relaxing,” says Bell, who at 45 is […]
When it comes to online security and personal data, that is: A report released this week by security firm McAfee provides some interesting information about what it means to overshare.
Old school public education reformers put citizenship, and habits of social interaction, front and center. Now we see children only as pre-collegiate, proto-capitalist participants in the global economy.