Though memes have made their way into mass culture, they will likely remain more surprise than science.
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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 […]
“Hence the competition […] was sharp between book and book, brain and brain, constituting […] almost a gladiatorial spectacle for the entertainment of the sophisticated.” –A. R. Hall, Philosophers at […]
Why is a manufacturing job superior to a job in any other sector?
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: “The risk of civilization-threatening technological catastrophe remains high.”
“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.”- Molière
“I am big,” Gloria Swanson’s fading film star Norma Desmond says in Sunset Boulevard. “It’s the pictures that got small.” Have we lost the “big” artist, the artist who tackled […]
Men have adapted to deliberately use anger to gain advantage and get what they want.
A federal ruling might be a big win for broadband companies who could cut deals with large content providers — Disney or Netflix — to ensure that their web content is delivered faster and more reliably than other sites.
The psychologist Christopher Ryan says sex scandals ought to be treated as a private matter, and that would represent a “more realistic understanding of human nature.”
The population of science Ph.D.’s is steadily growing, while the number of available faculty jobs increases at a pace only a snail could envy.
“People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.”- John Dos Passos (born on this date in 1896)
The second map adds the crucial third dimension
It is known that diabetes brings with it a greatly elevated risk for a number of comorbidities. To this list, we now have to add elevated risk of cancer, as well.
Guest post by Kevin Flora(Cross post from kevinflora.com) Think as if there isn’t a box, not just “outside the box”. Embrace change and accept your responsibility as a professional within […]
What do you know about fracking, the process of injecting water and sand and chemicals under high pressure into deep rock, cracking the rock open and allowing recovery of […]
This quiz aims to predict your political leanings by gauging your attitudes toward pets, pornography and more.
We humans are those simple individual life forms that are beginning to bring technology into our bodies, whether it’s the cell phone or eventually brain/computer interface.
Nitin Nohria: If you make others around you feel that you took the best advantage of every opportunity you were given, I promise you, you will get more opportunity in the future.
Jeff Jarvis: If the government cut off someone’s connection to the Internet they have violated their human rights.
How the last open cluster ever discovered by Messier himself still holds some amazing secrets and wonder more than 200 years after its discovery. “The journey is difficult, immense. We […]
More than 400 years after Galileo’s first telescopic observations, we’re more certain than ever that the Earth is moving through space. How do we know? “Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and […]
Illustrations of the wonders of weightlessness by the artist Graham Booth.
“Competition creates efficiency,” is preached as if it were a law of nature. But nature itself teaches a different lesson.
“I like the fact that I’m living in the world rather than in a university.”- Jay McInerney (born on this date in 1956)
Over the past century a war has been fought in universities around the world which has resulted in countless bottles of red ink spilled over students’ work, in the form […]