The American economy is not recovering because we’re still in the hangover of 30 years of debt buildup.
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Why is the Bible so obsessed with hygiene?
Both are being exacerbated by climate change, but the threat to civilization caused by drought is more immediate, with one study suggesting that it may have influenced current Middle East unrest.
Our problems have gotten worse and they’re getting worse faster and faster because that’s the nature of exponential growth.
PIPELINES!!!!! Evil! Dangerous! Huge threats to the environment! MUST BE OPPOSED! Could there be a clearer example of how naïve and simplistic we’ve become about the harms of modern […]
There is no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle.
Bill Nye: I don’t think U.S. students are lazy.
Americans severely under-report how much food they eat, and this has affected decades of nutrition data.
On March 16, 2880, 1950 DA will come very close to Earth – so close, in fact, that a collision cannot be ruled out.
Bill Nye: Our intellect and treasure is really best used in exploring space.
Disgust with Washington has damaged both the Republican and Democratic parties and pushed support for a viable third party to an all-time high, according to a new Gallup poll.
Researchers conducted a taste-testing experiment in which participants consumed single-malt Scotch in specially-designed rooms labeled “grassy,” “sweet,” and “woody.” They claimed the taste was different in each room.
At the time of his arrest in 1995, Kevin Mitnick was the most wanted cyber criminal in the United States. The arrest marked the end of an intense two and a half year electronic manhunt, a game of cat and mouse that Mitnick likens to a video game.
Many Americans seem to hold on to a romanticized portrait of Columbus even when they are exposed to his dark side.
A new poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly blame the GOP for the catastrophe that continues this evening in Washington. Things are getting so bad for the Republicans that prospects for reopening the government and avoiding a debt-ceiling crisis are, I think, looking up.
Last week, moviegoers at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea saw the debut of a 30-minute spy thriller using a new technology, ScreenX, that includes the theater side walls as screens.
M-Blocks are small robotic cubes that have no exterior moving parts. But they are able to propel themselves, climb on top of each other and form all kinds of shapes.
Never mind the fact that watches aren’t as popular as they used to be: The Tikker has already blown past its Kickstarter crowdfunding goal. Writer John Kruzel thinks it might have something to do with the appeal of YOLO.
Bill Nye is hosting “Why With Nye,” an eight-part YouTube series focusing on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter.
Women whose avatars are dressed provocatively come to think of themselves more as objects than as people.
By scanning the road up to 200 meters ahead, the Obstacle Avoidance system first warns the driver of objects in the way. If they don’t react, it then takes control of the brakes and steering wheel.
Among other claims, a new paper in ACS Nano says that the carbon-based material has twice the tensile strength of graphene. It could be used in many different applications…once someone figures out how to create it in bulk.
Because Petri dishes are so 20th-century: University of Texas scientists have created microscopic habitats for bacteria using layers of protein and a high-precision laser. They mimic the natural environments found in human organs.
To understand why the global recovery remains sluggish, and while social unrest abounds in many countries, look no further than the workplace.
Can our political beliefs actually make us bad at math?
Guest post by Jill Janes “Management…follows general rules, which are more or less stable,…and which can be learned.” ~Max Weber Management. Be it district management, classroom management, or bus-line management, […]
A comment on my most recent blog post reminds me both why I love blogging and why comments on science blogs are such a good thing. The commenter might write […]
When David Bowie played Andy Warhol in the 1996 film Basquiat, he wore Warhol’s actual wig and glasses. Bowie met Warhol in his travels through the art world and even […]
Lincoln’s emotional awareness, that kind of explicit, reflective, conversation with himself is how he used all the adverse classrooms, from his mother’s death when he was nine to all those lost elections, to suicidal depressions.
Scientists say they’ve located the first definitive proof of a comet hitting Earth: a diamond-studded pebble they’ve named after legendary female philosopher-scientist Hypatia of Alexandria.