Robotic cars are coming. The IT and automobile industries have the throttle wide open to be the first to get the human out of the loop. The “Google Car” is […]
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Monty Python’s Terry Jones argues that economics isn’t a science—it’s history! Forgetting that history inevitably dooms us to the next financial crisis.
Alan Watts recognized that money was only an abstract idea compared to actual wealth. Will we ever learn the same?
Therapeutic research on LSD stopped in 1968. Now we’re rediscovering its value.
Neuroscience research shows that variety is important for healthy individuals and healthy societies.
Some parents are diagnosing their attention-deficient children as heavenly beings thanks to Internet blogs.
Technology has helped us prolong life indefinitely. But that brings with it a lot of ethical questions, and questionable practices when it comes to brain death.
If tattoos had always been as popular as they are today, here is what Charles Darwin, Henry V, Lord Nelson, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama might have inked.
Freud was much more than the Id and Oedipus, and he may be the answer to today’s problems.
About 1.15 million people in the U.S. have died from gun violence since John Lennon’s death 35 years ago. What can his life and music tell us about how to respond to violence, intolerance, and hate?
How we went from our Milky Way, alone, to the entire Universe. “Gamow was fantastic in his ideas. He was right, he was wrong. More often wrong than right. Always […]
It depends where you look. The answer is relatively awesome! “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” –Mario Andretti One of Einstein’s most famous fundamental laws is that […]
Why did Jackie Robinson have to break baseball’s color line in 1947 after another man broke it almost 70 years before?
A big part of our current mess has to do with how little about religion we actually know.
Shakespeare never visited America, yet the map of the U.S. is dotted with references to his work.
It’s getting bigger over time, but is there anything it’s displacing, or expanding into? “Mathematicians deal with possible worlds, with an infinite number of logically consistent systems. Observers explore the […]
Is it how the Universe began, or just how our observable Universe began? They’re not the same! “These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe […]
It’s extremely difficult for new technologies to also envision the ways we will relate to each other in the future.
Warhol may be dead, but Pop Art is not—it’s more international, relevant, and alive than ever.
And, at a fundamental level, it can never be one. “Even when Darwin’s teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning […]
How do you map a half-discovered country? You make up the other half!
Experimentation-out-of-love is often inefficient and hard to measure. It isn’t always “solution-oriented.” But it’s as necessary and natural to us as breathing, and all too easily swept under the rug.
Not water, not ice, and definitely not aliens. Here’s how we know. “You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in […]
Don’t know Ellsworth Kelly or his art? Now’s your chance — he’s dead.
Knowing how to code becomes the next phase of literacy.
Imagine a device implanted inside your body which can detect heart disease, diabetes, cancer, an infection, and more, down at the genetic level? Scientists at UC San Diego have just created one.
A live-blog event of a fabulous public lecture given by Katie Freese on the unseen components in our Universe. “If you take everything we know… it only adds up to […]
The conflict between East and West predates America and Islam, says a book full of cool maps
Star Trek’s ideal view of medicine is closer than we think.