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.
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Being an engineer is not just about being able to calculate and analyze. It’s a whole spectrum of skills.
Our primal fear can make modern humans oversensitive, and cause us to react to dangers that don’t exist and push us to make illogical and irrational decisions.
The best argument against German Unification came from French writer François Mauriac: “J’aime tellement l’Allemagne que je préfère qu’il y en ait deux”. It takes an American to propel that […]
We can never totally escape our biases, but we can be more aware of them, and, just maybe, take efforts to minimize their influence.
Dov Seidman: My fundamental idea is that how is not an adverb. It’s not a tactic.
The following is a guest post by Mark Molloy “Sir we know our will is free, and there’s an end on’t.” (Samuel Johnson as quoted by J. Boswell in The Life […]
The success of an employee working from home depends on the person, on the job and on the training the organization provides to do that role remotely.
When people say that an art movement or school “died out,” they usually don’t mean it literally. In the case of the Italian Futurists, however, you can specify the day […]
It’s cheaper to save people’s lives in poor countries than it is in rich countries. So how much is a life worth?
In a previous post, we set American Walt Whitman against Frenchman Arthur Rimbaud. Based on your feedback, Rimbaud won the first set narrowly. So now on to set #2: war.
One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.
As user interfaces grow more sophisticated, incidences of motion sickness — and the less-well-known simulation sickness — are expected to increase. Writer Christopher Mims says this may become the new normal.
The emergence of freewill in the human species is a result of evolution, not a brute fact.
Mass manufacturing is absolutely here to stay, but 3D printing will have a subtle but significant long-term impact on the economy.
Researchers at Harvard and the University of Chicago used “electrochemically active ink” and a custom 3D printer to print microbatteries smaller than a single grain of sand.
This success story is an example of taking your biggest problem and deciding to skip it.
A University of Adelaide student found a relatively simple way to convert the humble-but-environmentally-dangerous plastic bag into a material that has great high-tech potential but is currently too difficult to produce in large qualities.
The stars, gas and dust of our own galaxy dominates our night sky. But what secrets does the Universe hold beyond that? “Who are we? We find that we live on […]
Not many art stories make the cover of both TIME and Newsweek in the same week, but the revelation of Andrew Wyeth’s infamous “Helga Paintings” in 1986 caused a news […]
“The more players that want to create original content and finance it,” Littlefield says, “the more exciting it is in the world of ideas.”
Bill Nye: I don’t think U.S. students are lazy.
Memories triggered by smell are more emotional than those triggered by sounds, pictures or words
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed the hike so that more people will “switch on [their] brain” when entering a marriage. It’s part of a growing trend towards increased social conservatism.
While the vast majority of mainstream press attention (and capital) focuses on the 1st through 3rdVerticals, some of the real paradigm shifting technologies and approaches may be in the 4th and 5th Verticals. […]
One of the only members of the Virgo Cluster… that isn’t located in Virgo! “[L]ife is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the […]
A new image editing method will have graphic designers cheering and weeping in equal measure. The new technique lets you take a two-dimensional image, and with as little as three […]
The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.
Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.
The sunk cost fallacy means making a choice based on a desire not to see your past investment go to waste.