The long arm of automation is reaching out into realms previously thought unconquerable by machines. The Associated Press is proving journalism to be another of those realms.
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As a physician-assisted suicide bill sits before committee in the California state legislature, Ira Byock, MD, urges a critical examination of the way supporters draw attention to their cause.
Psychedelics are showing promising results in helping a wide variety of ailments. But can they also result in addiction?
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have created the most high-tech solution to teenage anxiety yet: a treatment for acne that uses a combination of ultrasound, gold-covered nanoparticles, and lasers.
It’s the greatest source of energy in the Universe, and yet we had no idea until less than 100 years ago. “The sun is a miasmaOf incandescent plasmaThe sun’s not […]
Personality and intelligence do help lift people from poverty in America, lending some plausibility to the American dream in which hard work and stick-to-it-iveness improve one’s lot in life.
Proposals to completely eliminate parental choice over whether their kids will be vaccinated can backfire and drive more parents into the anti-vaccination camp.
Depending on your perspective, lifehacks are either the lifeblood of simple living or a goofy punchline of DIY culture. What’s undeniable is the money that’s to be made from society’s hunger for easy how-tos.
Since 2011 state officials have been restricted from using the phrase “climate change” in addition to a list of other terms surrounding environmental issues.
Whenever I work with a company or talk to people in the business world, I’m always asked for a model or a set of scientific formulas that can “solve” behavior […]
More than 20 years ago, the sitcom Seinfeld went “meta” and joked that it was “a show about nothing.” But 20 years before George Costanza’s epiphany, artist Richard Tuttle was staging shows about nothing featuring works such as Wire Piece (detail shown above) — a piece of florist wire nailed at either end to a wall marked with a penciled line. But, as Jerry concludes, there’s “something” in that “nothing.” A new retrospective of Tuttle’s art at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Both/And: Richard Tuttle Print and Cloth, dives into the depths, and widths, of this difficultly philosophical, yet compellingly simple artist who takes the everyday nothings of line, paper, and cloth to create extraordinary statements about the need to be mindful of the artful world all around us.
The highest high tides occur once every 18 years, and can lead to surprising floods. Here’s the science behind them. “But less intelligible still was the flood that was caused […]
Nutrition Facts on food packages require some study in order to understand what it all means. The UK seeks to implement a new system, but it may make a diet soda look healthier than a basket of strawberries.
Industrial innovations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries enabled “the largest hunt in human history” out of which several whale populations were almost eradicated.
Science writer Benedict Carey explains in his new book that the brain is a forager, not a school learner. Carey advocates for teaching students more about how and why they learn.
The “constant points of light” in the sky are often anything but. “To be is to be the value of a variable.” –Willard Van Orman Quine We look up at […]
While 2015 gives us all a fresh start, we can consider the Big Bang until today to be “One Universe Year.” What comes next? “And now we welcome the new […]
If patients better understood the health risks associated with certain kinds of medical care, they would likely seek less treatment.
Fifteen college students are refusing to repay the private and public loans they received to attend Everest College, a for-profit institution that closed its doors.
“Every system that we build will surprise us with new kinds of flaws until those machines become clever enough to conceal their faults from us.”
-Cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky
In 2012, a “leap second” crashed sites such as Reddit and Yelp. Linux creator Linus Torvalds tells WIRED that we shouldn’t expect that to happen again this June.
No matter how great your expertise, new discoveries await for the curious. “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and […]
Constant touching and emotional warmth are essential to cognitive development, yet our educational and professional environments are skeptical, often for litigious reasons.
New word tools can sometimes avoid old confusions. Let’s use “praxotype,” “cognotype,” and “technomorphic” to see human nature more accurately. Especially to see that we’re the least genetically constrained species ever.
There are pills and surgeries that are all vying for consumers’ attentions as the weight loss solution, and one more is about to become available to Americans looking for a way out from their obesity.
We have developed a world economy that is increasingly dependent on our information and communication technologies, says former NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen. That’s why the crux of our future welfare depends on the development of advanced cybersecurity.
Big data may be the future, helping companies reorganize, and giving employees more breaks and corporations the productivity boost they’re looking for.
Fitness wearables do have the ability to facilitate change. But not if 42 percent of people stop using them after the first six months.
An international achievement report ranks American millennials—those between the ages of sixteen and thirty-four—far behind their European and Asian counterparts.
Giving children a fine-arts education is essential to create the kinds of skills necessary for the modern, creative economy, according to UCLA’s Anderson Forecast School of Management.