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Alanis Morissette’s 1996 hit song “Ironic” has finally been corrected to actually make it ironic after all of these years.

The microship is pervasive and ubiquitous in our lives more than we realize. 

A Canadian man is offering a house for sale in either Canadian dollars “or its Bitcoin equivalent.” It’s one of several signs that the virtual currency is becoming more popular.

What’s the Big Idea?  The words “learning” and “education” are unsexy in print – probably because for most people they unconsciously conjure up feelings of Dickensian dread and boredom. This […]

Twenty years ago, I predicted that when the exponential and predictable progress of processing power, storage, and bandwidth—what I called the three digital accelerators—reached the levels we would have by […]

The theory is we should protect people from themselves. 

People who drink one to three cups of coffee per day have a lower risk of contracting certain diseases, including dementia, and are more likely to live longer than those who abstain from coffee.

This is becoming the central paradox of the Information Age: the easier it is for humans to create content and information on their digital devices, the more likely it is […]

One Today, which began a limited pilot Thursday, enables Android users to donate a dollar a day to one of several prescreened charities.

I came to the full realization that there is no formula for life. And a perfect job, a house, a business or a spouse is an illusion of our mind trying to bring order to a life that has none.

The image above depicts the body of an albatross that was found on Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 

MIT doctoral student Kuang Xu has created a mathematical formula that can reduce the amount of time injured people wait for medical attention in the emergency room by ten percent.

“Lucien Freud said if you’re painting humans you have the best subject matter in the world. It’s so true. That’s the concept of [my] work. Everything has humanity in it,” […]

When things change dramatically we resist it at first and then we adapt and then we love the change. 

Google has always been alert to the danger of advertising and even accepting advertising at all because it might corrupt or lead the people running the search engine to want to corrupt the results in favor of advertisers. 

It’s the morning of Wednesday, 13 September 1939. In an America supremely at peace, newspapers hit front lawns with headlines screaming of war. The horrific conflict splashed across the front […]

I just came to realize that what we got involved in and what I had been supporting was turning education into a desiccated, data-driven, anti-human activity and this would not encourage the love of learning. 

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”—truer (and more gender, class, and race specific) words were never written by a group of rich, white, […]

Churches can create the context in which sociability can be made safe and expressed. 

There’s a kind of hostility to teachers that underlines the current corporate reform narrative. 

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 […]

China is in full gears to becoming a cultural superpower, and its 400 million micro-bloggershave a huge stake in creating the future society.

How do I want to put some measurements for myself to see if I can channel my periods of creativity more effectively?

     Have you seen the Chipotle Grill animated video “The Scarecrow”?  More than four million people have, since it was first published last week. It’s a cry against unsustainable industrial […]

“What we’re seeing here, this guy is the Leonardo da Vinci—the Albert Einstein—of tennis.”

Liberty-minded Americans wonder when and if their countrymen will say, “enough is enough.”

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as part of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, released a report saying that menthol cigarettes likely pose a greater public health risk […]

You’ve undoubtedly heard the maxim “Life finds a way.” Well, if life has indeed found a way on one of the other trillions of planets in our Milky Way Galaxy, it would likely not be our way.

Americans should be aware that sugars subtly creep into their diets through fruit juices, caffeinated beverages, sweetened breakfast foods, and especially sodas. They can, and do, add up.

So I’ve been criticized for saying that our country is, more than ever, a meritocracy based on productivity. One of the threaders, in fact, said we’re a plutocracy based in […]