Christine Quinn hates it when people say “it is what is.” As a kid she read every biography in her school library about a political leader or famous woman. “The […]
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Consumers today are knowingly and unknowingly providing businesses with more data than they’ve ever been capable of collecting before. The analysis of this information could have profound implications for business.
There isn’t really such thing as a “masculine” and a “feminine,” says feminist icon Gloria Steinem. Because we’ve been so deeply propagandized with the notions about what it means to […]
One of the biggest problems I find in the coverage of geologic events in the media is the relationship between cause and effect. Many times the confusion of what factors […]
The new eruptive phase at Merapi appears to be getting worse – and from the sound of it, the volcanologists at the Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation aren’t sure what […]
Forbes’ Quentin Hardy says the U.S. economy is on track to collapse in twelve years based on analyses of the diminishing rate of returns from private assets.
“What we divulge might seem contradictory or bizarre because the line we refuse to cross is so deeply personal.” Jessa Crispin says privacy concerns are relative.
As the midterm’s drubbing ends, Barack Obama needs to embrace the theatrics of the presidency, however cheesy that may seem to him, says Tina Brown.
Professor of physics at Drexel University, Dave Goldberg analyzes wormholes and cosmic strings to determine if time travel might be an achievable goal.
Can constitutional democracies generate the motivational resources that nourish them and make them durable? The Immanent Frame on the new writings of Jürgen Habermas.
“Train wrecks are said to be attractive. Though I don’t agree when it’s my country that’s both the train and the wall.” The Pulitzer Prize winner at The New Yorker.
After T.S. Eliot carried poetry and criticism to unbelievable popularity, literary culture itself seems to be slowly but decisively shutting down, says Joseph Epstein.
The Guardian’s Kevin Gallagher says that by depressing U.S. interest rates, quantitative easing forces developing countries to defend their currencies at crippling cost.
Researchers say talismans work by attaching a hope or wish to a physical object which induces the placebo effect. The objects demonstrate the power of the mind.
In its obsession with online speed, Google has released free software that could make many sites load twice as fast. Technology Review explains how it works.
When Daedalus crafted wings of feathers and wax for his son Icarus, he included the warning to not fly too close to the sun. As anyone who knows Greek mythology […]
Imagine just for a moment; a floating, orbiting and operational laboratory holding several crew members at any given time, weighing over 900,000 lbs. It’s over 350 feet wide, with solar […]
I am almost heading out the door of the Colorado Convention Center here in Denver to head back home after an eventful GSA 2010. However, before that I wanted to […]
“Wave elections” may be becoming more common because of the intense political polarization that has emerged.
Low weight at birth is associated with all sorts of health troubles later in life, so it seems a great idea to give nutritional supplements to pregnant women in developing […]
The Republicans scored a huge victory in yesterday’s elections. Right now it looks like they will pick up around 65 seats in the House and 6 seats in the Senate. […]
It’s a good day for porn in the red states of America. According to a new study in this month’s Evolution and Human Behavior, researchers expect a significant increase in […]
To watch from afar as the drama of the US mid term elections unfolded as a Brit who has lived in America, likes America and likes Americans, is deeply frustrating. […]
With Republicans gaining the majority in the House, closing the gap in the Senate, and controlling the state legislatures and Governor offices in key states such as Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, […]
The Guardian’s Matt Parker will introduce seven of mathematics’ most intractable problems. To win a million dollars, all you have to do is solve one.
A revolutionary surgery has helped three blind patients to see following the implantation of an artificial retina. The operation brings hope to thousands of blind people.
Professor of evolutionary paleobiology at the University of Cambridge, Simon Morris says one of Darwin’s detractors still raises interesting questions about human uniqueness.
Physicist James Kakalios, author of The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, wants people to know what quantum physics has done for them lately.
After years of supporting gene patents, the federal government has unexpectedly challenged controversial applications on naturally occurring DNA sequences.
While Oscar Wilde is famous for his wit and literary inventiveness, he was also a serious scholar of the classics. The New York Review of Books on his time at Oxford.