Possibly…if the success of a Kickstarter campaign for the NPR/PRI show “Planet Money” is any indication. However, some say that it’s just a more modern way of how things have always been done.
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Very few countries allow direct-to-consumer advertising by drug companies, but in those that do (New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S.), the medicine-buying public has been brainwashed to believe that mental […]
Ten thousand photo frames across 33 photo landscapes are compressed into this impressive time-lapse video of the Northern Lights.
Rebellion is a useful skill and I’ve tried not to get carried away with it.
David McRaney, author of You Are Not So Smart, tells us how “humbling epiphanies” can be rewarding, even deeply pleasurable.
Given the amounts of data each of us generates in a given year, we may soon be approaching the point where true anonymity will be “algorithmically impossible.”
While it’s not the first attempt to bring writers and researchers together for brainstorming, the Hieroglyph project’s focus is on producing aspirational outcomes at a time when darker fictional futures are in the spotlight.
One of my first yoga instructors used to say, ‘Suffering is optional.’ In the immediate he was referencing the struggle to remain in challenging postures—our mindset could shift from one […]
Misperceptions of China’s economy owes to a weakening of U.S. confidence, which has more to do with psychology than reality.
Members of the philosophy department at San Jose State University reacted angrily last week when they were asked to consider incorporating Harvard political theorist Michael Sandel’s online Justice course into […]
The Dow Jones Average is about to break 15,000. Any day now the atmospheric concentration of CO2 will break 400 parts per million. Think there’s a connection? A couple other […]
There has been much focus over recent years, on brain machine interfaces (BMI) allowing for the direct control of a computer by electrodes placed on or near the brain. Unfortunately […]
Emotion tells us what matters.
The world of Iron Man may be closer to being a reality than we originally thought. A group of design students at the Royal College of Art in London recently created […]
At a recent event, a Qualcomm executive demonstrated how scattering small cellular base stations among homes in a neighborhood could provide users with stronger signals and more efficient data transmission.
Most business organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have been dominated by large publicly traded corporations in recent decades. That dominance is now being challenged.
While the move is clearly meant to attract investment, mostly from Chinese investors with recently acquired fortunes, the rights a country supplies its citizens has not traditionally been for sale.
We are a community of messy, stumbling, fumbling beings tumbling through space wrestling with a confusing gift of consciousness. And that is the great gift of consciousness.
What is more important to address — long-term budget deficits or unemployment?
In today’s ever-changing and highly volatile world we have no shortage of predictions. What we do have is an accountability shortage.
Daniel Altman offered predictions for what the global economy would look like 10, 20, 40 years down the road. How did he do with these predictions and what does it mean for economic opportunity around the world?
Learning is no longer a singular event, but rather an ongoing project to keep yourself updated with the latest skills and knowledge.
The first 3D-printed “Wiki Weapon” known as the Liberator is fired off.
Dr. Frankenstein creates a creature called Spakesheare that immediately writes a play,Spamlet. Who is the play’s author?
As the stock market continues to rise and rise, what are we to make of a booming Wall Street when many other economic sectors are still suffering the letdown of the financial crash?
I have great hope that we can continue progress for quite some long time. But eventually in each area progress does slow down a bit.
It is “human destiny” to go to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said today at the Humans 2 Mars Summit that is taking place this week at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
I feel like once filmmakers start making movies with Google Glass, there’s no end. It’s going to revolutionize documentary filmmaking – no question.
We have to think, not just seven generations ahead – we have to think thousands of years ahead.
A dual-track system of getting a higher education while working is helping Germany keep youthful unemployment at about eight percent, far lower than southern European states like Spain and Greece.