Brandon A. Weber
Contributing Writer
Brandon Weber has been writing and creating viral joy on the Innerwebz for over 7 years at Upworthy, The Progressive, Big Think, and more. His book on forgotten histories of unions, working people, veterans, and other marginalized people is available on Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Powell's.
Desperation made their family, and others, try to escape their home country.
The 2018 OECD Employment Outlook of 2018, released on July 4, has some alarming news for residents of some of the key countries involved—especially for the good ol’ U. S. of A.
In a fascinating and somewhat unexpected result, mild electrical stimulation of the prefrontal cortex part of the brain can reduce violent urges and even raise moral awareness.
CEO time has never been studied in this kind of detail.
The death rate cut in half for people who kept the same doctor.
Wind power on Mars makes it possible for any rover or other craft to collect power at the poles or other areas on the planet that don’t get constant sunlight.
It turns out, that tattoo ink can travel throughout your body and settle in lymph nodes.
“We express no view on the soundness of the policy,” Justice Roberts wrote in the Trump v. Hawaii Supreme Court ruling.
Millennials are the first generation on track to make less than their parents. Of course, there was that whole Great Recession starting in 2008…
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin captured the first selfie in space, and he doesn’t want kids these days to forget it.
The chances of an asteroid large enough to be a threat to areas where human beings are concentrated are small. Still, it’s what’s known as a “high impact” result.
Please tell me that Internet trolls didn’t just get a huge leg up.
In the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases, a new one has appeared: Gaming Disorder.
Pizza? Doughnuts? They satisfy the brain’s reward center like nothing else.
We were gaining three IQ points per decade for many, many years. Now, that’s going backward. Could this explain some of our choices lately?
The move comes on the heels of blue collar layoffs in October of last year, though it was a smaller number at around 700 people.
It’s not clear, though, whether the “trailer” is meant to influence Kim Jong-un or #45’s fans. rn
In the patent filed by Uber, it’s clear that the ride company’s A.I. software will use a number of data points to decide if a passenger is drunk—and how, then, to proceed.
The CDC has published very worrisome statistics about this upward trend in our culture.
NASA has found organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater on Mars. Is it just a matter of time before life is discovered on the red planet?
No, these kiosks at McDonald’s are not because of the Fight For $15.
At this rate, the country of Japan will have zero population in the year 2500.
Current climate change models are flawed when predicting the true cost to the world, new study says.
Vision restoration is the main goal, but the CustomFlex Artificial Iris could also be used for cosmetic purposes.
Google Chrome boasts 310 million active users across the world, and it might just kill off the usage of passwords.
Common routers include devices made by Netgear and Linksys; this is a major malware outbreak.
The field of Artificial Intelligence is pushing back against a newcomer — for good reason.
Q: How long would it take the average Walmart employee to earn as much as its CEO?
A: 1,000 years.
Elon Musk had a bit of a meltdown on Twitter this week as the media reported troubles at Tesla, including missing production goals and clashing with the government about the infamous […]
Even though 18,000 species are discovered and named each year we are still losing ground, writes the College of Environmental Science and Forestry.