“How I’ll gobble Paris up, if I’m lucky enough to go back there!” painter Fernand Léger wrote in a 1915 letter home from the front lines of World War I. […]
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There is an economic imperative to have higher engagement at work, so why has it not changed?
We have old genes that are well adapted to living in some previous environment that are constantly encountering new environments.
We’re no closer to solving this problem than we were 20 or 30 years ago.
Straight from the pages of “Harry Potter”: The multi-camera system is currently used in nursing homes to monitor residents. However, its designers say it could help identify suspected terrorists in public settings.
How all the parts of the brain come together so that you have a unified perception of the world is one of the unsolved mysteries in neuroscience.
Introducing Buddhism, Blasphemy, and Blackmail
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 […]
In the hours following the deaths of more than 50 Egyptians in Cairo earlier today there were wildly divergent accounts of what actually happened. Here is a summary, from Wendell […]
“Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed/ The dear repose for limbs with travel tired,” William Shakespeare writes in his Sonnet 27. “But then begins a journey in […]
Launched via a 35-day crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, Matterform blasted through its initial fundraising goal of $81K in 1 week and has raised over $460K. With 4 days left to go, the company announced that it has outgrown its production facility and decided to add color scanning to what is the world’s 1st affordable home 3D scanner product (currently $599).
Love may be there most of the time but that acceptance always takes time.
We are profoundly influenced by our surroundings in many ways that psychologists are now starting to fully understand.
While this is one violent storm, scientists were actually the most surprised by how much the hurricane seems to resemble one on Earth.
No myth about art and artists abides as pervasively as that of Vincent Van Gogh, the mad genius. To mark the grand reopening of the renovated Van Gogh Museum in […]
Is a life lived without asking why a more impoverished life? There’s the question.
One of the first words nixed by postgraduate education is “truth.” Amidst all the deconstructing and linguistic acrobatics, “truth” is just too troublesome and old fashioned. So, imagine my surprise […]
No snark, no sarcasm, no judgement, just the genuine, honest answers to 22 creationist messages. “In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; […]
The most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen was not produced by Wes Craven or found in a theme park, it’s what I see some people do to themselves to lose weight. Take a look at these SEVEN scary diets . . . but reader beware if you’re easily grossed-out!
If consciousness is a result of physical processes in the brain, then it seems that every experience can be reduced to the interplay of physical elements. But not so fast, say some philosophers.
Could social media have found the Boston Marathon bombing suspect faster? Could they have prevented the bombing in the first place? These are just two of the questions technologists are now asking.
“Everyone can write but there are few good writers. Just because everyone can [write] doesn’t mean that there’s talent,” Paul Verhoeven told an audience at the Tribeca Film Festival after […]
“It’s so clean and bland – I’m home!” –Marge Simpson, on arriving in Canada
Shepard Fairey’s aesthetic, which has so much to do with appropriating and re-imagining images — is best understood through the lens of his many colorful influences.
WESTERN commentators translate the Zhongguo Meng as “Chinese Dream,” thereby patronizing China’s socio-cultural originality and marketing it as a franchise of the “American Dream”. But are the two civilizations really […]
This week, Business Insiderwrote about a study reporting the sad news that women are just not selling screenplays at the rate of men. In fact, they’re grossly being left out […]
A small but growing number of people are using the latest technologies to give themselves abilities that look and sound like something out of an X-Men comic.
In Poynton, a shared-space concept has resulted in a revitalized village center where all manner of traffic — gas-powered, human-powered, and anything in between — is treated with respect.
To empower the organization you need to take out layers, shift budget controls, do things that are very visible inside the organization and a real statement about how we’ll innovate in the future versus how we have innovated in the past.
Follow basic human attributes. People want to feel respected. They want to feel part of a community. They want to have connections.