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Researchers found kids will assault a robot, even when it pleads for its abusers to stop.
Meet the mischievous computer whizzes who started it all.
If you have to say “never forget,” you’ve probably already forgotten.
Two documentarians want to do something about it.
Many don’t have a leg to stand on where their understanding of evolution is concerned. David Sloan Wilson (head of the Evolution Institute) says “natural selection is life Monopoly.” But, it could be more like basketball…
On January 1, 2016, one of the most infamous books of the 20th century — Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf — enters public domain and can be published by anyone in Germany for the first time since the end of World War II. Seventy years after the fall of the Nazis, people still debate allowing that particularly evil genii out of the bottle to influence young minds. Others argue that the genii’s been out of the bottle all along, either through underground sources or, more recently, the Internet. More controllable, however, have been the propaganda films of the Nazis, whose chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, announced in 1941 that, “Film is our most important medium for propaganda.” Felix Moeller’s new documentary Forbidden Films: The Hidden Legacy of Nazi Film examines this question of allowing new generations to see these banned films and, if so, how to show them without that evil history repeating itself.
But I use that term loosely.
You can’t expect to foster effective K-12 education using outdated and analog methods to educate kids raised on digital.
Some day fact-checking will be as easy as using spell-check.
What happened when a team of researchers slapped a button and a countdown timer on Reddit? A community formed.
How do you “play the game the right way”? Depends who you ask.
To help the trick-or-treaters in wheelchairs have truly amazing costumes, rather than be Superman or The Little Mermaid in a wheelchair, the nonprofit Magic Wheelchair makes epic Halloween costumes by transforming wheelchairs into “awesomeness created by our hands and [the kids’] imagination.”
Honesty truly is the best policy.
Will warning labels help prevent the purchase of soda, especially among young teens? Researchers say no.
The final building to rise in place of the original WTC will be the work of star architect Bjark Ingels, who famously designed Google’s new headquarters in California.
Which character comes to mind first when you think of Game of Thrones?
The Seattle Department of Transportation has proposed a $3 billion project that would revamp city roads and improve gridlock. Central to the plan is an interesting twist: no new accommodations are to be made for auto traffic.
This time, the graphic novel Persepolis is to blame.
The numbers are bad, but it’s not too late to take action.
Why is the word such a wet blanket? Scientists investigate.
Litter in Hong Kong and you may see a digital wanted poster of yourself.
The once-revolutionary technology is headed for the landfill, but it offers advantages that modern video formats can’t match.
The Supreme Court has considered a host of hotly divisive issues in the term that is wrapping up in just a couple of weeks. In addition to rulings on gay […]
Legendary aviator Amelia Earhart taught us more than just about aviation. She taught us the social value of failure and that no man or woman ever stands alone in victory.
Telecommuting breeds bad habits. It’s a good idea to adopt a schedule replete with forays out into the sunlight, as work breaks boost productivity.
Live long and prosper…and try not to hit us, please.
Stereotypes can be hard to shake.
The FDA has until the end of the summer to pass a decision as to whether or not flibanserin is safe for the consumer market. Emotions are high and many women would do anything for even a small improvement in their sex lives.
Pets are adorable. But our love for pets produces some very un-adorable facts. For example, in the U.S. alone there are 70 million stray dogs and cats, and of them […]
The media, health personalities, and our own pedometers constantly tell us to aim for 10,000 steps a day. So, should we?