If the products and services of U.S. companies are seen as “compromised,” technology executives worry that foreign consumers may abandon them in favor of “N.S.A.-resistant” products such as the blackphone that Big Think wrote about recently.
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We Earthlings have lots of growing up to do before we reach the shimmering standard of equality set by Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets.
A startup called Elio Motors is preparing to launch a $6,800 car in 2015 that boats impressive efficiency – up to 84 miles per gallon for highway driving (49 miles per gallon for urban driving).
Horrible, horrible social injustices “I feel like a walking corpse.” BEIJING – Left picture: Gong Qifeng is traumatized and suffers from schizophrenia ever since the forced abortion of her second boy […]
Under the tremendous pressure and at the incredible temperatures of the Earth’s deep interior, there’s a thick layer of liquid: our outer core. But why is it so? “If you ever […]
Almost everyone these days uncritically accepts that the solution to antibiotic-resistant disease is to use fewer antibiotics.
Richard Feynman: “Social science is an example of a science which is not a science… They follow the forms… but they don’t get any laws.”
Human brains are the sources of ideas and ideas multiply all other resources and make your life better.
Highly effective impulse marketing strategies have been perfected for selling junk food. Obesity rates have skyrocketed.
When Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque first brought Cubism onto the modern art scene in the first decade of the 20th century, the initial reviews were mixed. Like-minded artists and […]
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”- Federico Fellini (born on this date in 1920)
“Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.”- Daniel Webster (born on this date in 1782)
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali (born on this date in 1942)
Dennis Kozlowski, the founder and former CEO of Tyco, is often seen as a poster child for an era wrought with greed and corporate corruption. Catherine Neal challenges this one-dimensional […]
One year ago Denver Post reporter Michael Booth found that nearly half of children in the United States are under-vaccinated. A massive study of 320,000 children ages two to seven […]
The Sun — like nearly all stars — burns bright through its nuclear reactions, sending light, heat and energy out into the Universe over a timespan of billions of years. But how? “The sun is […]
Dennis Kozlowski, the founder and former CEO of Tyco, is seen as a poster child for an era wrought with greed and corporate corruption. Catherine Neal challenges this one-dimensional view of the man.
It’s a scientific truth of the Universe, one that many people — children especially — have trouble coming to terms with. But it doesn’t have to be a tragedy. “Through that last dark cloud is […]
Recognizing corporate corruption and ending abuses of power are noble goals. But our system of overseeing, controlling, and when necessary, punishing corporations and their executives is flawed.
On a small island off the coast of Norway, the water froze so quickly that it caught a large school of fish in place.
Once upon a time, a car was an industrial machine you climbed in and drove around. Today, it’s also a tracking and nudging machine that second-guesses you for your own […]
In response to the data-harvesting practices of the NSA, a new smartphone has been unveiled “whose whole purpose is to protect users’ privacy.”
Susan Barry: It’s a good idea to see a developmental optometrist and determine whether or not binocular vision issues are impacting your child’s ability to read.
Though memes have made their way into mass culture, they will likely remain more surprise than science.
When deciding how we’ll meet the food needs of communities today and generations to come, we cannot pit agricultural productivity and environmental resilience against each other. We must have both. And we can.
“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.” – Susan Sontag (born on this date in 1933)
It’s easier than you might think, and we’ve been doing it for over a century. “The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from […]
In theory, a genetics research firm could enable parents to choose ‘smart embryos.’
Do changes in a gravitational field propagate instantaneously, at the speed of light, or at a different speed altogether? “The only problem with the speed of light, is it gets […]