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While often touted as a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes, E-cigarettes weaken the immune systems, strengthen bacteria, and elevate the user's risk of developing MSRA and other serious infections.
The importance of having an active father throughout a child's life should not be diminished by his secondary role in giving birth or by his traditional absence from daytime home life due to work obligations.
Toxic chemicals affect developing brains much more severely than they do adult brains, and researchers now recognize that the months spent in the womb are the most crucial time for brain development.
The post-recession workforce is threadbare. Increased competition as well as additional professional expectations have created a wide net of disinterested employees throughout the United States.
From simple physics to amazing feats “I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you […]
Google's prototype for a completely automated car radically changes the driving experience from actively controlling the vehicle to removing even the option of steering, accelerating, or braking.
Just as automated assembly lines have replaced manual labor, the looming question for future economies is that of the labor market. How many of our current jobs will be replaced by machines?
A £10m project is underway to develop a mechanical set of pincers to perform risky procedures.
Much weight falls on the shoulders of the executive branch's mouth.
One side is radical, revolutionary and bold. The other is conservative, traditional, and won't back down.
The vault, aptly labeled "Memory Lane," houses over half a century of little yellow bricks.
Some scientists believe that humanity's best shot at colonizing other planets lies in working within existing physics using organisms -- in this case, bacteria encoded with human DNA -- that can survive the trip.
General relativity sure does make some counterintuitive predictions. “They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.”-Steven Wright Each week on Ask Ethan, I take a dive […]
Teenage monkeys tended to drink more fermented sugar cane than their elders. Researchers hypothesize that older monkeys drink less because of "monkey politics".
Insight--that eureka moment when a new idea appears like a bolt from the blue--is the most essential characteristic of creativity. Without insight, there simply can be no creativity.
Philosopher Roberto Unger outlines the problem with illusion of false necessity.
Understanding how to digitally communicate is an undeniably essential tool. There’s no opting out. So much of how we connect today, in our business and personal lives, even our dating, […]
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Imperative CEO Aaron Hurst (http://www.imperative.com) describes how we are evolving from an information economy to an economy of purpose. Hurst is the author of The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire […]
CAMBRIDGE – Headlines around the world last week trumpeted a watershed moment for the global economy. As the Financial Timesput it, “China poised to pass US as world’s leading economic […]
Cheeky Scottish space engineers rejoice! Teleportation of humans is theoretically possible.