Being only 12, Agrawal’s version of an iRobot is not designed to do household chores but rather, deliver potato chips.
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Manil Suri gives a full-throated defense of math as a field that is “about ideas above anything else.”
Thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission’s Wide Angle Camera (WAC), a high resolution virtual Moon rotation movie has now been composed.
The last disruptive innovation in the building industry happened in 1883 when Warren Johnson invented the thermostat, helping to launch the entire building control industry. This was 30 years after […]
Guest post by Kevin Flora It’s not every day that a student comes to you asking for advice, wanting to bounce an idea around, or just has a random question. […]
When things change dramatically we resist it at first and then we adapt and then we love the change.
The following letter was sent by Larry Summers to President Obama, in which he withdrew his name for consideration to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
If there’s something you really want to believe, that’s what you should question the most.
My Facebook feed is nothing but homemaking and my Twitter feed is nothing but “Have you heard about this story on Tech Crunch?”
Consciousness is essentially the company president that has to arbitrate all the different mechanisms.
The city of Utrecht will embark on a study involving a small group of mentally ill addicts and a variant of marijuana that’s said to have anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic properties.
Clean spaces may be too conventional for the release of creative ideas.
Pre-birth nutrition contributes to the “programming” of health, well being, brain development and mental performance and that certain nutrients are important to this process.
The power and agility of our brain was by no means necessary to hunt and kill animals, so why did the thinking organ become such an overachiever?
The public gains made by AI, such as beating chess champions and winning Jeopardy tournaments, have ironically also demonstrated its limits.
The Information Age has made humans more managers of knowledge than vessels for it.
You never intended to eat the whole bag of chips, or smoke the entire pack of cigarettes; to keep participating in the mindless WhatsApp fight with your friend, or continue […]
It’s a good season for subterfuge. While the rest of the world is watching Syria – or, more precisely, the omnishambles following Obama’s “red line” in the Syrian sand – […]
The average American changes their career about four times.
The very idea that we can out-behave the competition, that we can be excellent and excel in our behavior, that behavior is the source of advantage is a brand new idea.
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.
Thanks to its high concentration of antioxidants from flavonoids, orange juice has many potential positive effects when it comes to combatting cancer.
Milk does increase weight and length at birth, and there’s a possibility that this actually tracks into adult life.
The researchers suggest that the genes may also help establish left-right differences in the brain, which in turn influences handedness.
Being able to prompt this behaviour in the body could one day be used to repair ailing organs including the heart, liver, spinal cord and pancreas.
The E. coli could lie dormant in the gut, and activate only once its enemy makes an appearance.
Human tour guides need not worry…yet: Skycall is a proof-of-concept that allows lost visitors to summon help in the form of a small quadcopter.
When I see extreme obfuscation in a company it worries me that this company doesn’t have what it takes to survive and thrive.
This week, a street in the Chinese city of Hangzhou became home to a vending machine that stocks live crabs for 20 yuan (about US$3.27) apiece. The proprietor says it’s for hungry customers who come by after closing time.
Not because winning could turn you into a literal fat cat: Research suggests that simply buying tickets leads to materialistic thoughts followed by diminished self-restraint in the here and now.