Melville’s sentence exposes the fiction between employers and employees that employees have any choice in the matter.
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Long-term antidepressant use may be an invitation to diabetes.
Every minute costs two rubles, which means an hour costs 120 rubles ($3.80). For their money patrons get coffee, tea, toast, biscuits, and as much as they want.
New research shows that people presented with an indicator showing the strength of their password created stronger passwords that were also memorable. However, the evaluation method itself is flawed.
Daniel Dennett has posted a fantastic set of “seven tools for thinking” in an article in the Guardian that has gone so viral that if you haven’t seen it yet, […]
The Eidos goggles and mask isolate and amplify certain inputs so that, for example, someone standing at the back of a crowded auditorium can hear a speaker as clearly as if they were sitting in the front.
Happiness is the joy that we feel striving after our potential.
I find it fascinating that based on what we now know, we can’t yet say that it’s impossible to travel in time.
Update 13/05/13 12PM: The Guardian have now corrected the article to place David Eagleman’s quote in appropriate context. 1.55PM: The paragraph has now been cut completely with the following note “A paragraph that […]
The surveillance state is here, and it is apparently here to stay. The question moving forward is how effective the U.S. constitutional system and democratic culture will be in keeping the American version from slipping into Chinese mode.
The evolution of the Web today is happening faster than the transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 due to processing power, bandwidth and storage, “creating a curve of exponential change.”
collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on earth. It is the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published.
I think we all need a fear toolkit that helps us navigate the fear in our lives.
In an excerpt from Gary Greenberg’s book, The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, the author argues that psychiatry is out of touch with today’s science.
The US military has awarded an unspecified sum to a California company to improve on binoculars that capture 3D images of faces and send them to an identification database.
The U.S. Supreme Court determined that biotechnology companies are not allowed to patent genes. The Court has not gone far enough.
Reza Aslan has to explain The Genetic Fallacy to idiot and FoxNews.com interviewer Lauren Green.
Judah Folkman, the cancer researcher, is probably the most – one of the two or three most inspiring human beings I’ve ever met. I only spent two or three hours […]
One very prominent global warming denier is a Dane named Bjorn Lomborg. He wrote a book about ten years ago that got a great deal of attention and he called […]
The first two words that came to my mind about the Rolling Stone cover of The Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were “craven” and “disingenuous,” but they were followed by other words. […]
George Will used an apt phrase to describe the policy options toward Syria. When faced with universally bad choices, he opined, “Don’t just do something. Stand there.” Better to do […]
China may not be the freest society in the world, but for some time now it’s been catching up to — and outpacing — the US in several facets of research and development.
If you thought that random samples of your DNA collected in public spaces could never be used as part of a futuristic genetic surveillance program, think again. In what has […]
This is how the Left gets tough – rather than confront actual problems or genuine malefactors, they hyperventilate about invented ones, at the expense of innocent people.
The world of Iron Man may be closer to being a reality than we originally thought. A group of design students at the Royal College of Art in London recently created […]
When we teach people how to catch liars, it takes us 32 hours. And there are over 30 different things you look for. I’ll tell you a couple of them […]
As artist Robert Williams grew up in his often dysfunctional, divorced home in the 1940s and 1950s, his mother wished he’d become a cowboy. After seeing Cecil B. DeMille’s 1935 […]
1. The Topless Revolution Targets Putin “Putin leered like Benny Hill at a topless protester,” was the headline on The Reliable Source. Gawker has the video of Putin giving the thumb’s up. […]
We’ve put ourselves into a very difficult position and the only way out of it is to have involved, informed, motivated owners.
It is a new world where Machiavellian’s vertical hierarchies have been complemented with horizontal webs and networks.