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.
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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.
We do have the capacity to turn our lives into a work of art. And why shouldn’t we?
The 2000s were the first decade since the Great Depression to end with a net loss in jobs despite the fact that economic prosperity is one-third higher than it was 20 years ago.
In the video below it takes a laser custom-made from a flashlight and the laser diode of a Blu-ray burner drive about 7 seconds to cut down 100 black baloons like dominos.
In today’s lesson, Ross Pomeroy explores how researchers are learning how the parasite is Toxoplasma gondii “weasels its way into the brain,” producing “some subtle and startling changes in the host’s behavior.”
Humans can contract the parasite by ingesting anything contaminated with cat feces.
This picture is not of an alien invasion. It is a thunderstorm cloud called a supercell that was photographed in Glasgow, Montana.
The discovery of a specific age-related signaling pathway in the brain’s hypothalamus opens up new strategies for combating diseases of old age and extending lifespan, possibly by decades.
Interruptions during work cost us precious mental resources, according to a new study out of Carnegie Mellon. The effects of distraction, in theory, are enough to drop students one letter grade.
The new manual psychiatrists use to diagnose mental illness includes “Internet Use Disorder”, and erases the distinction between grieving over the loss of a loved one and full-blown depression.
There remains a substantial debate in the scientific community over whether brain training games really work to build the brain or just make you better at the isolated tasks which the games assign.
“While there’s quite a lot of research that shows memory worsens as we get older, perhaps the way we choose what to remember is a means of adapting to changes in brain function.”
Scientists at Princeton University have created a bionic ear using a three-dimensional home printer and combined the prosthesis with electronics that can “hear” radio frequencies.
The video below demonstrates the handiwork of DARPA-funded dexterous robotic hand hardware. The adaptable, adaptable, low-cost robots that can use a wide range of human tools to assist in dangerous defense missions.
A new solution of particles at the nano scale has been developed by a consortium of American universities that, in mice, has proven effective at controlling type 1 diabetes for days on end.
Popular folklore advises against eating on the go because it causes indigestion, contributing to discomfort and weight gain, but to ask medical professionals, you might think what your mother told you was not entire accurate.
FDA Deputy Commissioner Michael Taylor called the growing trend of adding caffeine to snacks and energy drinks “very disturbing to us.”