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From amputees to porn addicts, the art of touch is being explored and monetized by the growing haptics industry.
In ‘All the Real Indians Died Off,’ two scholars take longstanding myths about Native Americans to task.
3.5 million Americans have ASD today, and the rate has been increasing since the year 2000. Experts aren’t sure why. But a new study offers insights on how autism develops and what might be done to prevent it.
In light of the prison sentences of Oscar Pistorius and Lionel and Jorge Messi, we examine why athletes who commit crimes have the luxury of lighter sentencing.
How they get so big so fast is a mystery. Could “direct collapse” be the solution we’re seeking? “For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most […]
A new security technology identifies people by the sound of their skulls.
One controversial study claims to have found the edge of the human lifespan.
How a little knowledge can bring about some huge misconceptions… and how to fix it. “Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover […]
The saying in coding goes: if you have to do a job more than once, automate the task. Bots will one day unburden you from these tasks.
Mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry tells the story of zero, a genius idea that transformed human progress.
Einstein called it spooky, but if we figure it out right, can we learn about distant star systems instantaneously? “Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible […]
You are already a cyborg! Here’s 10 ways you could merge even more with technology in the coming decade.
A new study reveals that people naturally fall into 4 different personality types while making decisions: Optimist, Pessimist, Trusting, or Envious.
For Renzo Picasso, could it be that sharing a last name with last century’s most famous painter pushed this visionary architect deeper into obscurity?
A 200 word journey from the Big Bang to modern humans. “It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, […]
Researchers announce a potential breakthrough in using nanotechnology to fight cancer.
https://players.brightcove.net/2097119709001/4kXWOFbfYx_default/index.html?videoId=5042734601001 In the more than 40 years since Apollo ended, we’ve never gone farther. “I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” –Michael Collins On […]
Apple thinks the government is wrong to seek a “backdoor” to its operating system. Most Americans think the government is right.
The New York Times claimed that aliens must have existed at some point. But science is less certain. “There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve […]
China’s new satellite is going to attempt to create uncrackable encryption using quantum mechanics.
Surprisingly, this study was not funded by HBO, Netflix, Hulu or the Illuminati.
With a renaissance going on in psychedelic research, is making us better people included?
Believe it or not, life for the vast majority of Americans has improved under President Obama. From health and wellbeing to economic stability and quality of life, Americans are living […]
Is introversion sometimes invoked unwittingly to mask outright rude behavior? The answer is: it’s complicated. Here’s what introverts and non-introverts can do to navigate the complexity.
Dreams might be a whole lot sexier than we thought – but not because of their narrative content. Neurologist Patrick McNamara’s theory links the biological changes in our brains during sleep to human’s inherent desire to procreate.
Demagoguery, colonizing Mars, and the perpetual pendulum of party politics. Princeton Historian Sean Wilentz on the Think Again podcast
A first-ever full-body transplant will be performed by controversial Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero who became famous when he enlarged on plans to remove the heads of two people.
Remember that one time when a Philosopher King ruled the whole world? Well, here is how that turned out.
Have we ignored another of the criminal justice system’s major issues?