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Sickweather uses social media posts that mention sickness to create a geographical “illness map” so that users can navigate their way around potential “storm activity.”

In their study, Monash University researchers put a number on it: During a 16-minute trip, the average parent takes their eyes off the road for nearly three and a half minutes.

Because Petri dishes are so 20th-century: University of Texas scientists have created microscopic habitats for bacteria using layers of protein and a high-precision laser. They mimic the natural environments found in human organs.

“Rapid urbanization is the fastest, most intense social phenomenon that ever happened to humankind, perhaps to biology on Earth. I think we can now start to understand in new and […]

“How I’ll gobble Paris up, if I’m lucky enough to go back there!” painter Fernand Léger wrote in a 1915 letter home from the front lines of World War I. […]

You need to maintain a network that’s not only deep but also broad. 

We resist our callings because they call us out of our habitual lives.

Proust’s lesson is, “I lay in bed and by looking at things properly, and I felt properly alive.”

Once you have an opinion about what’s going to happen, you can no longer find things that are true, you only look for things that track your own opinion. 

In science, and genomics in particular, the difference between what we know and what we don’t is enormous.  At this point, we’re still figuring out how much we don’t know. 

We need whitespace because that’s really often when our most creative ideas emerge, when our real desires for our lives can speak.

Sir Ken Robinson wants to help remedy a dangerous and growing trend in developed countries toward career dissatisfaction and disconnectedness. 

Here is a thought experiment that shows beliefs don’t parcel themselves out the way sentences do. 

There is a tendency in our culture to single out one nutrient or ingredient as a quick fix. 

God doesn’t answer back. That’s the problem. Humans can. 

“Do I want to spend time with this idea or this person? 

The power and agility of our brain was by no means necessary to hunt and kill animals, so why did the thinking organ become such an overachiever?

Don’t be afraid of looking into your own genetic make-up. 

How all the parts of the brain come together so that you have a unified perception of the world is one of the unsolved mysteries in neuroscience. 

My heaven, nirvana, would be if the questions that are raised by Oprah Winfrey would be answered by the faculty of Harvard University.

That first click is a door opener for people and makes them want to do more and more stuff.

So long as you’re not being pressured to do it, staying at your desk can result in less fatigue than previously expected, says a new study.

The brain is the most demanding organ that your circulatory system has to feed.

This question touches on one of the most fundamental issues that is addressed by anybody who thinks about mortality, the end of mortality.

I think a lot of people stereotype generous and helpful people as pushovers, as weak, as not tough and driven enough to be successful.  And I think that is a myth that we really need to break down.  

most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet 

In order to be successful, you need to do more than just design a good product. You need to be persuasive.

We are testing what it is like to lose privacy now because if the species survives, we’ll develop a capability to not be embarrassed anymore. 

The efficient market model states all security prices today reflect all available information and only new information is going to change the price.  

The mechanism for changing your mindset through messaging is the same as for changing a physical behavior: a targeted and limited resolution practiced relentlessly until it becomes automatic.