There’s a chance the Earth will turn green, and even though there’s no such thing as a green star, perhaps someday, the Sun will, too. “‘You are a different kind […]
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Too much caffeine caused one women to exhibit manic symptoms — restlessness, rapid speech, and paranoia, all from overconsuming coffee.
The author of a now 30-year-old article thought he was writing the obituary of the laptop computer. Such wrongness makes you wonder what current underrated technology could be compared to the once-maligned laptop.
What does the art of Andy Warhol tell us about the nature of boredom and the ways we try to escape (and enjoy) it?
Lately, we’ve become so infatuated with creating the next big thing, rushing headlong into crafting new technologies that we’ve neglected to think through the ethics of it. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
When we think about future events in days, rather than years, we’re able to better connect with our future selves.
It’s a well-oiled machine with a mission to better search, maps, and Android.
Donald Trump is the topic of our national conversation, and the reason for his popularity seems to revolve around his distaste for political correctness—but why do we love that?
Help enact behavioral change by adding a step on the scale to your daily routine and charting your progress.
Algorithms are in charge of hiring people and data collection. You should have the right to know what they’re saying about you.
In Singapore, National Night is a night for baby-making. What happens when governments sponsor procreation?
After 24 hours without sleep, the brain begins to overestimate threat.
If Americans get a “D” in science, what should the A-students do? “It is worthwhile, too, to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times […]
For many industries, the next big innovative step is often spurred by achievement from an outside industry. The historical marriage between food preservation technology and nautical advancement is a perfect example.
Why don’t we just listen to our body? Because our minds, and our culture, are often louder.
The scattered toponyms that delight us by their unvarnished expression of downheartedness, defeat and despond.
Your brain is perfectly capable of remembering a random passphrase; we’re all just to lazy to work on memorizing it.
Bees produce honey, beeswax and… maps? Yes they do, if they’re one of Ren Ri’s swarms.
What happened when a team of researchers slapped a button and a countdown timer on Reddit? A community formed.
Millions of girls in Africa skip school because of their periods. But menstruation is still a shameful topic even in the Western world and it doesn’t attract many entrepreneurs and innovators to tackle the problems surrounding it.
When was the last time you could talk about a show everyone had seen?
Last year almost 80 billion videos were watched on Pornhub, the world’s largest repository of free online porn. No wonder Playboy has to rethink its revenue stream.
Getting married by a priest or at a courthouse can feel underwhelming. Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats wants to revolutionize the wedding by ditching the boring old officiants and replacing them with quantum physics.
Officials wonder how long sled dog racing will survive the warming temperatures, which threaten the very landscape of the race.
Take part in the biggest media campaign in history and spread awareness of UN’s Global Goals for the next 15 years.
June 21 is International Yoga Day, a move sponsored by the Indian prime minister — and quickly capitalized upon by the Indian tourism board.
In the first Republican presidential debate earlier this month, John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, surprised many with a performance that seemed to rescue the concept of “compassionate conservatism” from […]
Michio Kaku: Can We Download Our Brains? One day we might be able to download our consciousness into a computer chip, preserving our personalities forever—but first we will have to […]
We live in the most prosperous era of human history, and prosperity supposedly brings leisure, free time to enjoy our abundance. So why is our leisure time vanishing?
Department of Corrections is a misnomer. At the present, DOCs across the country shun from the responsibility to make convicts better people.