Did you go to one of the 600+ science marches across the globe? Here’s why the cause matters. “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on […]
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Americans live the the broadest, emptiest slice of the planet.
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Do you want your voice heard? Facebook recently unveiled a tool called Town Hall which makes it incredibly easy to contact your elected officials. By removing the friction of contacting politicians, Facebook may be creating a “social infrastructure” that increases civic engagement.
Proportional theory, telescopy, time pressure, and the reminiscence bump may each play a role.
New Zealand is enticing people to join their growing tech scene by offering an expenses-paid trip to check out the country, get interviewed, and make a giant career move.
Louise Tarrant argues less work is not weakness, but a sign of prosperity and a necessity to the coming automation.
Forwards? Absolutely. Backwards? Perhaps. Becoming your own grandpa? Only if you’re Philip J. Fry… “One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel — you smell […]
It might be the nearest supernova humanity will ever see. What will happen when it goes off? “Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or […]
YOU get a poster, and YOU get a poster, and YOU get a poster!
How our brains can be both asleep and up and about at the same time.
Harvard scientists say they are two years away from creating a hybrid embryo with mammoth traits.
Your theory predicts something novel? How nice. But no one will pay you any mind unless you test it. “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards […]
10 million cars with autonomous features will be on the road by 2020. But they won’t just change the way we get around, they’ll transform our cities and our lifestyle preferences, from the morning commute to the suburbs we choose to live in.
Over the course of his presidency, Barack Obama issued a total of 276 executive orders. So, what exactly does that mean?
The driverless car is coming – but what will *you* being doing in your self-driving car? Robotic cars will give rise to a new ridership economy of on-the-go services and experiences.
How did New York end up there?
The idea that reality is comprised of atoms and space goes way, way back.
Scientists identify key compounds that may help prevent brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s as well as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
As nine states consider legalization or medical use in November, anti-marijuana advocates are relying on old and false claims.
Scientists are conflicted about what causes car sickness, which may make a workaround difficult.
Scientists are planning a Scientists’ March on Washington on April 22 to protest the Trump administration’s anti-science policies.
Is it good science in practice or just a smokescreen?
Rates of crime and recidivism in America are very high. One Cleveland-based French restaurant, however, leads the way in helping ex-cons to thrive and not reoffend after their sentences.
A series of spelling errors has educated Trump opponents laughing.
Irish Travellers, a group facing much discrimination and inequality, is given formal ethnic status in Ireland.
The Los Angeles Hope Festival is the celebration and examination of hope and optimism, two paradigmatic mental attitudes that play a vital and influential role in our daily lives.
PTSD develops after a person experiences, or is a witness to, a life-threatening or traumatic event — a natural disaster, for example — or is exposed to combat, or sexual […]
In 2012, “pathological bias” was included in the Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders.
Is Facebook making you unhappy? A recent Danish study found that a one-week break from Facebook had positive effects concerning life satisfaction and increasing positive emotions.