“Regrets, I’ve had a few,” Frank Sinatra warbled in “My Way,” before adding wistfully, “But, then again, too few to mention.” Sinatra sang that song at the end of a […]

Now that the Higgs has been discovered, the Standard Model is complete. But are there any other new particles? “The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws […]

Writers loathe using cliches like "Orwellian" and "Kafkaesque." But sometimes, it can't be helped, especially when you're Christopher Hitchens getting arrested in communist Czechoslovakia. He tells a very "Hitchensian" story […]

While it's not a Frankenstein's monster, it's still an exciting advancement toward creating life from scratch. The journal Science announced that a team of scientists produced a yeast chromosome. The […]

Before there was David Lynch's Dune, there was Jodorowsky's Dune. This film project never made it off the ground, but the team that the mad genius avant-garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky […]

When it comes to picking a beverage of choice, it should be water, plain and simple. Our bodies are around 60% water. So why shouldn't we be chugging our eight […]

The missing Malaysian jet may have ignited a fear of flying in many. Statistically, a missing plane is an extremely rare occurrence. What we should all be terrified of when […]

Anant Agrawal is the president of edX, an online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT. As Bill Clinton said at the Global Education & Skills Forum, it's important to […]

Change is hard to do. In fact, for many “change” is a dirty word. Regardless, our society is set-up to embrace change. Every New Years Eve we flaunt our resolutions […]

Bill Clinton on the most important lesson he's learned.

A while back I wrote a post about the problem of pseudoscience in TED talks and how this problem was made so much worse by the failure across the board […]

In an era of budget, time, and labor constraints, is it possible to sell your ideas and concepts (which often require money, time, and labor to implement) to the CEO, […]

Walking around London, it's easy to imagine what the city looked like in the 1700s. A project by Redditor Shystone made it much easier to go back in time. Old […]

Tim Harford presents two surprising examples when explaining how recessions work. A contributor to the Financial Times and author of five books, including his latest, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, […]

An extraordinarily simple explanation of the most mind-boggling concept of modern science. “In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.” -Walt […]

OECD's Andreas Schleicher on ensuring quality in education.

SAP's Jim Snabe on why digitization is key to education reform

"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens." - Copernicus

Amnesty International's Salil Shetty on education as a fundamental human right.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova on investing in girls' education to combat poverty.