Culture & Religion

Tonight’s Major League Baseball amateur draft wraps up years of prep work by team scouts, executives, and medical professionals. With millions of dollars of player investments hinging on drafting the right players, baseball front offices have got their strategies down to a science.

The importance of having an active father throughout a child’s life should not be diminished by his secondary role in giving birth or by his traditional absence from daytime home life due to work obligations.

One side is radical, revolutionary and bold. The other is conservative, traditional, and won’t back down.

The vault, aptly labeled “Memory Lane,” houses over half a century of little yellow bricks.

Some scientists believe that humanity’s best shot at colonizing other planets lies in working within existing physics using organisms — in this case, bacteria encoded with human DNA — that can survive the trip.

Teenage monkeys tended to drink more fermented sugar cane than their elders. Researchers hypothesize that older monkeys drink less because of “monkey politics”.  

Insight–that eureka moment when a new idea appears like a bolt from the blue–is the most essential characteristic of creativity. Without insight, there simply can be no creativity.

Cheeky Scottish space engineers rejoice! Teleportation of humans is theoretically possible.

In a five-year study of college women, sociologists found that the term “slut” is capable of changing meaning to accommodate the pernicious goal of controlling women and creating hierarchy.

A version of the Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum could debut as soon as 2015.

All across the US this summer, paintings by American artists will replace advertisements for the widgets you probably don’t need anyway.

Clever strategies for accessing accounts without depending on multiple long-winded passwords.

Several organizations are hoping to put valuable artifacts — such as a handwritten Jewish scroll — on privately-launched missions to the moon, where they will be preserved in case something bad happens on Earth.

Major League Baseball defends itself against accusations that its lucrative broadcast policies violate federal antitrust laws.

Race may be genetic in that scientists, who have sequenced the genomes of thousands of people from around the world, can distinguish between races based on an individual’s genetic code.

The popular phrase meant to guide your decisions through the weeds of life to the garden of self-fulfillment is more harmful than helpful.

There has been a lot of attention in recent years on flow—complete absorption in a task that it almost seems effortless. The modern pursuit of flow—how to achieve it, how […]

Andy Warhol’s exhibition, titled 13 Most Wanted Men, didn’t raise eyebrows when it was reviewed for submission to the 1964 New York World’s Fair…

All of Isaac Newton’s posthumous writings are now available online so that anyone can discover the complexity of this brilliant man’s life.

Can you find meaning in life? Do you have the courage to see what is right in front of you? That was the task with which Camus challenged the world in the wake of WWII.

Our medical knowledge of cerebral dysfunctions like epilepsy is casting new light on some famously religious characters like Joan of Arc, Saint Paul, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Melissa Gira Grant, former sex worker and author of the new book Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work, argues for a more holistic understanding of individuals who work as prostitutes. 

The US Navy is funding a research effort to equip robots with the decision making tools necessary to make split-second decisions between right and wrong. 

Using data from one of the world’s oldest continuing studies of aging men, researchers have discovered a possible connection — in the form of a certain type of gene — between body height and lifespan.

TransProse measures the number and density of words associated with basic emotions — anger, joy, fear, and so on — and generates music designed to reflect the moods on the page.

20 Day Stranger allows them to track each other’s lives…but in an intentionally vague and anonymous way. Its developers say the goal is to increase empathy and understanding.

A new study involving World of Warcraft players using female avatars revealed clear gender distinctions when it came to in-game movement.

“Good Artists Copy. Great Artists Steal.” Pablo Picasso said that. Or did he? Steve Jobs seemed to think so. In 1988, the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Jobs as using Picasso’s […]

A forthcoming Nielsen report reveals that while Americans now have access to — and are paying for — an average of 189 channels, they only watch 17 of them consistently.

When it comes to overall well-being, a new survey reports that regardless of whether it’s public or private, elite or obscure, the type of institution isn’t nearly as important as certain other factors, such as engaging professors.