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We’re letting unnatural laws unduly influence us. A fuss about “simple economics” can remind us that markets aren’t like gravity, and their so-called laws are neither laws of nature nor […]
Miya Tokumitsu writes with incisive elegance about our altogether elitist and self-indulgent view that our experts have these days about the relationship between love and work. That view, of course, […]
The next generation will have plenty of gadgets when it grows up, but will it be happier? We need to measure that more carefully.
“The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.” – Brendan Behan (born on this date in 1923)
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”- James Dean
Plus a bonus: perhaps the single most important achievement to all of humanity. “What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the Moon, […]
“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”- Sir Thomas More (born on this date in 1478)
“Accursed be he that first invented war.” – Christopher Marlowe (born on this date in 1564)
“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”- Adlai Stevenson (born on this date in 1900)
“This is the character of the Chinese people […] unconstrained morality, in practice and theory, Heart, inward Religion, Science and Art properly so-called – is alien to it. […] The […]
“How do you do that?” young Charlie Parker would ask older musicians. “Would you please do that again?” Those who know jazz, or who only know of jazz greats such […]
Manipulation is a vicious yet not uncommon human trait. Our ability to alter our surroundings in order to take advantage of a situation was recently on display in The Wolf […]
The pleasure center, increasingly hard to satisfy, is screaming “More!” But primitive centers that control breathing and heart rate are not building up tolerance at the same pace and are whispering “Enough.”
The Bill Nye-Ken Ham/ Science Versus Creationism debate scheduled for tonight has caught fire on social media. Here are some of our favorite Tweets in anticipation of the debate.
The greatest enemy we face – one that is indeed greater than any external threat – is the uncontrolled mind.
The role of the human is not to be dispassionate, depersonalized or neutral. It is precisely the emotive traits that are rewarded: the voracious lust for understanding, the enthusiasm for work, the ability to grasp the gist, the empathetic sensitivity to what will attract attention and linger in the mind.
A machine taught itself to create these images, after being shown a single image of a cow.
“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.”- Rosa Parks (born on this date in 1913)
Bill Nye argues that we need a generation of scientifically literate students in order to be successful in the 21st century.
The greatest Messier object of them all, a treat all winter long. “What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on […]
In Canadian political debate, accusing one’s opponent of advocating “American-style” policies used to be the equivalent of launching a nuclear missile.
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”- Gertrude Stein (born on this date in 1874)
Impostor syndrome is common among highly successful people–particularly women, minority groups, and people from cultural or socioeconomic backgrounds that are different from their peers.
More users of space mean more and better infrastructure to continue to improve the ability of small organizations, students and ordinary people to access the stars. Which means we’d better get used to future rocket launches setting new satellite deployment records and making the skies glitter with ever more little points of light.
If you’re struggling with the final, most important obstacle separating you from your graduate degree, here’s how to make it happen! “I spent every night until four in the morning on […]
Global leaders seriously worried about climate change are having trouble getting more people to share that concern. One big reason is that climate change just doesn’t have the psychological […]
Like the rest of the country, feminism has undergone one percent-ification. The most discussed books on women’s lives speak to privileged women while usually assuming, if only by default, to […]
SHANGHAI – The Wall Street Journal‘s recent investigations – those parts that went into final print – paint a rather mild picture of the stressful situation in China, mainly concentrating on […]
Dear Strange Maps, This really is the strangest, or perhaps most curious, map I’ve ever seen: Spam is almost as smart as chimpanzees these days. It gets harder and harder […]