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A new poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly blame the GOP for the catastrophe that continues this evening in Washington. Things are getting so bad for the Republicans that prospects for reopening the government and avoiding a debt-ceiling crisis are, I think, looking up.

Once upon a time, a car was an industrial machine you climbed in and drove around. Today, it’s also a tracking and nudging machine that second-guesses you for your own […]

After I learned my why, I literally stopped telling people what I did and only started telling them what I believed. 

Among several companies that have announced plans to bring 3D scanning to the masses is Toronto-based Matterform, which is offering a portable device for less than the cost of some tablets.

Of all of the applications for additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, food tends to be the most universally popular. 

The manufacturing revolution that 3-D printing was meant to facilitate has stalled. Given that much of the printing hardware is decades old, fault lies with 3-D printing software, says Matthew Griffin.

Overcoming a limited belief requires ignoring that little voice in your head that says, “I can’t”, “I’m not good enough”, “only so and so people can do that” – one could spend a lifetime coming up with excuses.

Today’s “blacksmith” is a skilled designer/3-D Printer with highly developed skills in CAD design who is able to help locals prototype and create custom products that they concept for various uses.

Ecological footprint measurements, as currently constructed and presented, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context. 

Fed up with British Airways’ handling of his father’s lost luggage, Hasan Syed took the matter to Twitter by complaining via its self-service advertisers’ platform. It got the airline’s attention, along with that of millions of others.

What a surfer’s story can teach us about the promises we make to ourselves about the future.

Mandela’s legacy of a better world, with better people behaving in better ways is often nowhere better undermined than on “social” media. During the period where the world seemed to […]

How the closest supernova in a generation — soon to be visible to skywatchers almost everywhere — is about to help us better understand the entire Universe. “I saw a star explode and send […]

We’ve seen in many countries where they have instituted some quotas that they have been able to bring more women in and that it really has made a big difference in the quality of the decision making position

We all know Rockwell’s Freedom from Want by heart, even if we don’t know its title.

Scientists in an Austrian lab have created complex human brain tissue from stem cells, creating what the scientific community are now calling “mini-brains.”

How is a noun, a thing, an ethic of human endeavor, a platform for innovation, a lens through which we look at how we do what we do.

Scientists at Princeton University have created a bionic ear using a three-dimensional home printer and combined the prosthesis with electronics that can “hear” radio frequencies.

For the reader, art connoisseur, music fan, or student, this is a “money for nothing and your chicks for free” kind of world (Google the lyrics if you’re too young […]

As a society, we have so many hang-ups about sex.  If we would address that head on, we’d have a lot less problems related to it.  It’s just part of […]

Under the tremendous pressure and at the incredible temperatures of the Earth’s deep interior, there’s a thick layer of liquid: our outer core. But why is it so? “If you ever […]

Note: Yesterday’s Praxis post, “What Your Yearbook Photo Says About Your Gender,” critiqued the latent sexism in instructions to students at a New York City school on how to primp […]

A disquieting paper has been published in the journal Criminal Justice Ethics, that suggests the decisions of forensic scientists are being influenced by payments for convictions. The authors Roger Koppl […]

Most of the highly industrious, post-industrial, and prosperous parts of the world have a “birth dearth,” a birth rate significantly below the rate of replacement.  Japan, of course, has one […]

The right to have an active sex life unencumbered by unintended pregnancy is a healthcare issue, but it is so much more than that as well. 

Human beings or businesses are global and human beings are semi-movable. That creates a real challenge, especially when you move into the realm of digital businesses. 

When William Shakespeare’s friends and fellow actors and authors published his collected plays in 1623, 7 years after the Bard shuffled off this mortal coil, that book, now known as […]

Francis Fukuyama famously wrote in a 1992 book that we’d reached “The End of History.” He meant that the major ideological conflict of the 20th century, between Communism and democracy, […]

We are living through a huge evolution in our understanding of habits. 

Here are all of the arguments against Edward Snowden. This is why they are wrong.