Silver, known since ancient times to have antimicrobial properties, can disrupt bacteria and possibly deal with the modern scourge of antibiotic resistant bacteria, say Boston University researchers.
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If you can’t make it out to a cafe, a new website allows you to bring the bustling energy directly to your computer. The site is called Coffitivity. It’s free and plays an ambient coffee shop soundtrack.
In the 1960’s, John Crowe Ransom looked back at the post Civil War South, and discussed how at the time the South was Reconstructed and Unregenerate. The South had just […]
That first click is a door opener for people and makes them want to do more and more stuff.
Follow basic human attributes. People want to feel respected. They want to feel part of a community. They want to have connections.
Here is a thought experiment that shows beliefs don’t parcel themselves out the way sentences do.
People have hang-ups and blind spots and phobias and just sometimes they have a principled refusal to take something seriously.
Obesity rates are rapidly rising in the United States, so that also means larger pant sizes, wider seats, and more and more overweight people having sex.
Possibly hundreds of them are flying right now in a variety of commercial applications. Besides the illegality surrounding their taking pictures, officials are worried about their endangering people, property, or other aircraft.
This collage, called “Love and Only Love” is made from recycled bits of hate speech.
There are multiple levels of “we” and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.
As people in different countries are able to tell their own stories they are responding to the idea of Africa as a place of permanent suffering.
We’re no closer to solving this problem than we were 20 or 30 years ago.
Going to college in the mid 70s I started to smoke marijuana occasionally and wondered why people were getting arrested. Why did I have to worry about getting arrested for this sort of thing?
Because it’s not all our fault: Almost a quarter of US methane emissions come from livestock in the form of burps and farts. Now, a study is looking into ways to reduce that output via selective breeding.
Next week, the government will grant licenses to two foreign mobile service providers, who will help it achieve its goal of bringing wireless coverage to at least 80 percent of the country by 2015.
The people who think that it is a choice to be gay think that it is a bad choice. It isn’t.
Researchers at Harvard and the University of Chicago used “electrochemically active ink” and a custom 3D printer to print microbatteries smaller than a single grain of sand.
A group created by the FAA is expected to recommend relaxing the ban on the use of electronic devices during takeoffs and landings.
For God little bangs might be stimulating, and might stimulate God to create other universes.
It’s getting better. Just ask Dan Savage.
Can the incredibly concrete and the totally abstract coexist?
There are a growing number of corporations that are governed by “absentee owners,” meaning there is “no oversight and no one making sure that corporations and management act sanely and responsibly.”
Tonight is the closest the Moon will be to us all year, so it will appear bigger and brighter than usual. So we are hoping for clear skies for the […]
A recent US Homeland Security alert calls attention to the vulnerability of pacemakers, insulin pumps, and other health equipment to malicious attacks. As devices become smaller and more efficient, more attention must be paid.
The European Space Agency and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope produced this image of two galaxies known as Arp 142 that strongly resembles a penguin guarding an egg.
Eric Liu puts forward a “modest proposal” in this month’s Atlantic: instead of being awarded citizenship upon birth, perhaps Americans should have to pass a citizenship test just like immigrants to […]
A graduate student at MIT’s Media Lab has designed a system that contains a super-cheap optical chip, which could help bring holographic technology to consumers within the next five years.
With strikes in American nerve centers such as New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, and even Las Vegas, one artist this summer is waging a one-man World War Z of […]