Capturing a smaller space object that temporarily enters Earth’s orbit could be a lot easier and cheaper while still providing valuable data, say proponents.
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The job of the human being, as you go through life, is to become less stupid.
Solving puzzles can give you a sense of satisfaction that you don’t get in everyday life.
I think that we’re just at the very, very beginning of watching the implications of being ubiquitously connected to everybody on the planet and what you can do with that.
As humans we think linearly, but the world is changing exponentially.
Through policy we can make capitalism work for the things that we need to survive as people on this fragile planet that we share.
People spend a lot of time trying to think about how to connect abstract concepts to real life. 3D printers open up a whole new possibility.
I think we need tests and we need to apply those tests to individual teachers, to individual schools, to individual students and to individual parents.
While the primary purpose of Stir’s Kinetic Desk is to encourage workers to stand regularly, extra built-in features let them track their sitting and standing times and may eventually connect to wearable sensors.
If you think that trawling the internet for cartography is a harmless endeavour, you are sorely mistaken. Think again. If you still can, that is. The relentless perusal of maps […]
Picking up on the urban farming trend, a Pennsylvania couple has launched a startup that allows the curious-but-clueless to rent two egg-laying hens and equipment for a single season.
If we really want to help people we can’t just be driven by emotion.
Children’s dreams are a really interesting window into their developing minds.
Going to college in the mid 70s I started to smoke marijuana occasionally and wondered why people were getting arrested. Why did I have to worry about getting arrested for this sort of thing?
Being an engineer is not just about being able to calculate and analyze. It’s a whole spectrum of skills.
You often hear people say there’s going to be this massive maker economy in which everybody’s a designer. That’s actually not going to happen.
Older people are actually happier than younger people.
How can you be an important conduit in the 20 trillion dollar capital allocation story that is the completion of the urbanization project over the course of the next century?
A clean environment should not be a luxury. It should be what people’s rights are as humans.
Women must display attributes of care, attributes of femininity, and yet be assertive and independent.
The nicest response to a critic who gives a product (particularly films, games, comics, etc.) a low score is fans’ insistence that the critic is wrong. Of course, many fans […]
Complex systems can fall apart really quickly if they tip over the edge of chaos.
I wonder if 50 years from now we’ll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.
A true pacifist doesn’t even think there should be police forces. I can’t agree with that.
For six years, Nicholas Merrill wasn’t allowed to say who he was.
The constant posture of disbelief of the current is what makes science great.
Poor people’s bad decision-making may be at least partly a result of their circumstances, not due to any intrinsic lack of intelligence.
What I advise you to do is to actually go off-piste, and find ways to interact with people outside of your field.
We have to think, not just seven generations ahead – we have to think thousands of years ahead.
One of the challenges that students have today, which is not a lot different than what I faced, is the problem of budgets being cut in education. I grew up […]