Clinical trials show marijuana might be useful for pain, nausea and weight loss in cancer and HIV/AIDS and for muscle spasms in multiple sclerosis. But research funding is sparse.
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New technology could make it easier to monitor and design vaccines against H.I.V. by monitoring how T-cells, key components of the immune system, react to new drugs.
After WWII, birth rates in the U.S. rose dramatically. During the war, relatively few couples could afford to have children, and many young men were on the front lines anyway. […]
One of the major changes that’s come with the new site is that here, every post has to have an accompanying image. I’m not complaining – I had always meant […]
As regular readers know, I’ve devoted considerable time to writing about the child-molestation scandal engulfing the Catholic church. The core of this story isn’t that there are child abusers within […]
How is it that in our search for individuality we all end up in the same place, chasing the same trends while drinking the same drink while staring at the same app on the same phone.
Gender stereotypes that fueled the sexual revolution of the ’60s have been replaced by a new set, say University of Michigan researchers. In a new paper, they seek to debunk them.
Hemingway wrote of courage as grace under pressure. In Private Acts: The Acrobat Sublime, Harriet Heyman writes of grace under the pressure of gravity and the courage demonstrated by those […]
Now into its fourth week, the Occupy Wall Street movement lacks a visible leader and a single set of demands. Is that a tenable platform for political change? It just may be.
Legendary biologist E.O. Wilson has been a pioneer in his field for decades. Now is working on an interactive textbook which he estimates may revolutionize how students learn.
There is a race on to control the architecture of online learning. While that race has been running for the past decade or more, largely dominated by a software for-profit […]
Photo Credit: Jennifer Dessinger Adam Gopnik calls Jonathon Keats “a poet of ideas, whose work always rests on a solid basis of scientific research and resolves in a startling, semi-serious […]
What’s the Big Idea? As the world watched London burn under the strain of economic uncertainty this past summer, the legendary entrepreneur and art world financier Asher Edelman warned that […]
Anita Perry, your public complaint that your husband Rick’s campaign is being “brutalized by our own party” has guaranteed that further mayhem will ensue. I know, I know – your […]
Punk rock is not dead. In fact, Henry Rollins sees it everywhere around him. “The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father’s face, he is […]
Despite spending more time working than any other group, women with advanced university degrees are having more children than other college-educated women. Why? Because the growing divide between the rich […]
Peter Diamandis is one of the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs. Creator of the X-Prize Foundation and other companies, he is optimistic about the current direction of business.
Ted Leonsis struck it rich early, becoming a multimillionaire at the age of 27. Still, he wasn’t happy. Today he says business leaders must consider a ‘double-bottom line’ for true success.
Presumably, if we better anticipate its timeline, we will carve a path that makes the Singularity era most beneficial to our species.
Business legend Richard Branson describes ‘sustainability’ as “methods of power generation that help to preserve the Earth’s natural systems.” He calls on entrepreneurs to get involved.
As of right now, polls show that Herman Cain is in the lead for the Republican presidential nomination. They also show that likely Republican voters really like him. And there’s a […]
Over the past two or three weeks I have noticed something really interesting. I got in contact with or read about at least six startups that were all working on […]
According to Princeton Neuroscientist Sam Wang, co-author with Sandra Aamodt of Welcome to Your Child’s Brain, the benefits of bilingualism go far beyond the ability to order convincingly at Maxim’s in Paris, or to read Dostoevsky in the original.
Yes, we know our laptops know more than us. Now what will we do at work?
What’s the Big Idea? For some of us, it was Spock. For others, a humiliating performance as a pilgrim in the kindergarten musical. For me, it was William Blake’s relentless […]
Reuters reports that “leftists” in Mexico City’s assembly are contemplating a two-year, term-limited marriage. They argue that it would spare the city’s married residents—half of whom split, and most within […]
There’s nothing inherently wrong with stereotypes. In fact, cognitive psychologists argue that we need them in order to survive.
Radical futurist Ray Kurzweil says the pace of innovation will only continue to accelerate because exponential evolution is built into the very nature of technology.
New online exchanges aim to turn computer capacity into a globally traded commodity. Already there’s a new crop of startup companies called “cloud brokerages.”
Nissan is said to be working on a charger that could juice up an EV in just 10 minutes. It’s the kind of thing that could move EVs from the fringe squarely into the mainstream.