Shakespeare’s had a tough year. It’s not enough that anthropologists want to shoot lasers at his skeleton to find out if he smoked weed. Now the guy who directed Independence […]
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The recent 5.8 earthquake that hit outside Washington, D.C. perhaps created more psychological than physical damage. So the good news is that only nerves were rattled, rather than buildings although […]
In the midst of a battle against cancer, Steve Jobs has resigned as C.E.O. of Apple, the company he saved from bankruptcy to lead the world market in creative computing devices.
The phrase “too big to fail” still rings hollowly and painfully for everyone who remembers the 2008 bailout of the reeling U.S. financial system that was termed necessary to avoid […]
For the last two years the Republican Party has largely taken the position that taxes should never go up. They should only be lowered. For all the party’s talk of […]
The communication of chemistry to wider society is difficult because of ‘chemophobia’, its inherent complexity and its lack of unifying grand themes, explain Matt Hartings and Declan Fahy in an […]
Well, we’ve been wondering when we might see more signs of magma rising underneath El Hierro in the Canary Island and now we seem to have got some. Over the […]
As a resident of Concord Massachusetts, where American revolutionaries first shot back at their British oppressors, its impossible to watch what’s going on in Libya and Syria and Egypt […]
–Guest post by Patrick Riley, AoE Culture Correspondent If you believe your emotions can affect your health, nutritionist-author Nora Gedgaudas would say that’s only part of the story – because your emotions […]
One of the most exciting ideas in modern physics, that gravity is not a traditional force but an emergent one, was dealt a blow based on how the force works at the quantum level.
Uncivilisation is no ordinary summer festival. People go not to escape reality but to face it. Attendees propose a new, deep ecological narrative which confronts systemic collapse.
The Obama Administration continues to back our own domestic despots on Wall Street with the kind of zeal we used to use to support Middle Eastern dictators like Muammar Gaddhafi. […]
Martian soil could be very capable of supporting life, new data suggests. Previous analysis thought the surface was full of oxidizing compounds that would prevent its growth.
While scheduled for termination in 2020, the International Space Station may outlive that date given sufficient private investment. Entrepreneurs are lining up for the new space race.
Scientists in the U.K. who run the world’s premier fusion lab are working to capture the same energy production process stars use in order to provide clean, unlimited amounts of energy.
There are 8.7 million species on our planet, give or take 1.3 million, says the latest biodiversity estimate which is based on a new and more accurate method of prediction.
Federal climate scientists have labeled this year as one of the worst in American history for extreme weather. Blizzards, floods, droughts and heat waves—get used to it, they say.
His statue has stood outside the York Art Gallery for a century now, but most passersby don’t know the name of William Etty or the works that once made him […]
If the first industrial revolution was all about mass manufacturing and machine power replacing manual labor, the First Industrial Evolution will be about the ability to evolve your personal designs […]
The first human-like robot, named R2, was sent to space this year to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station. Robonaut 2, or R2, was developed jointly by […]
A fabulous Rheinpanorama from the early days of leisure travel
Brief post, but we just felt that M5.9 earthquake that occurred in Virginia (see top left) here in Ohio. My third floor office was swaying pretty good, but my wife […]
Co-authors Daniel Altman and Jonathan Berman argue that businesses will do better business and more social good by considering all of their activities – humanitarian and otherwise –in terms of how they impact long-term profits.
A permanent robot presence on the Moon may be the most feasible option for future lunar exploration. Robonaut, the first humanoid robot in space, is taking baby steps in that direction.
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is sponsoring a video contest on the future of news to […]
George Taylor, an economist at Wharton School in the 1920’s, claimed there was an inverse relationship between the state of the economy and skirt lengths.
Our BIG THINKING friend Robert de Neufville has outlined an important component of President’s Obama’s case for a second term. Sure, the economy is tanking. And so are the president’s ratings, because […]
If talking is one thing, and conversation another, then what is chat? Online chatting has come of age, reviving the lost art of word play that characterized speech in bygone eras.
About eighteen months ago, I wrote a piece titled “Smiling All The Way To The Bank” that featured commentary about the Congressional testimony of one Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of […]
A federal court has made it easier for companies like Amazon and Google to create music databases in the cloud without violating record labels’ copyright provisions.