Talking about politics in the office is stressing people out and hurting their productivity. Many discussions are erupting into full-blown arguments, and millennials are particularly likely to witness political escalations in the workplace.
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For autonomous self-driving cars to truly take over, every road needs to be digitally mapped.
A spoonful of sugar has always made the medicine go down – but shouldn’t we be asking whether we need this type of medication in the first place?
Researchers used a technique from biology to illustrate how Pacific Asian cultures developed.
Disney does more than make cute movies. Researchers from its innovation branch want to turn your living room into a magnetic field.
Libertarian transhumanist Zoltan Istvan is running for Governor of California in 2018 and, among other things, he wants to conquer aging and death for all!
The Middle Ages see a resurgence of interest among the alt-right and some conservative thinkers.
Amoebas one-tenth the width of a human hair may someday help diffuse a bioterror attack.
Irish Travellers, a group facing much discrimination and inequality, is given formal ethnic status in Ireland.
If black holes lose information in an event horizon, then do we have a paradox with our cosmic horizon? “The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.” –Edwin Hubble […]
“My theory is true, if I do say so myself.” SPOT stands for “Spontaneous Preference For Own Theories,” and it’s a newly identified cognitive bias.
Only 15% of Wall Street’s capital actually flows into the “real” economy, while much of the rest slushes around within Wall Street itself. As a result, the financial sector does not create the same opportunities for the real economy as it once did.
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Novelist and essayist Gish Jen on how fundamental East-West differences in the sense of self play out in art, culture, business, education, and more.
You may have heard of Laniakea, but don’t count on it being real. “It’s the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest […]
Apparently, Einstein shared a similar outlook on time as what’s proposed here.
Cognitive scientist Guy Claxton believes we should think of our entire body as our brain.
It may be possible to treat eczema with a super-effective ointment made from your own microbes.
How likely are you to help a stranger? What if you were in a war zone? If you think that the desperation of conflict really brings out the worst in people, you might be surprised.
Neuroengineering, defined as the application of engineering principles to neurological problems, then becomes how we engineer our relationship with existence itself.
And England almost burned themselves down as a result. “When Benjamin Franklin inveted the lightning rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it […]
The Vatican is world leader in one particular variable. Can you guess which?
The moment we divided the world into opposites, we opened the gates of hell.
Faces convey many important signals, but our ability to perceive the measured intelligence (IQ) of another person is contingent on the gender of the subject.
New Zealand is enticing people to join their growing tech scene by offering an expenses-paid trip to check out the country, get interviewed, and make a giant career move.
Glacier McGlacierface? Not likely. NASA has set some classy themes that will guide the naming of geographical features of Pluto and its moons.
But are any of these potentially Earth-like worlds actually inhabited? Here are the prospects. “It isn’t only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It’s the sense I […]
New 3D images of a mouse brain reveal a neuron that encompasses the entire brain.
Elon Musk announces that SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a mission around the moon in 2018.
In a 2012 study, participants used a Ouija board to get in touch with their “second intelligence.”