Put a pair of newborn rabbits, a buck and a doe, together in a pen. Assume it takes them a month to start reproducing, and another month for the female […]

#14. The greatness of Thanksgiving is that it doesn’t aspire to greatness, but only to the shared experiences that make living worth living for each one of us.

Will Comet ISON survive its close encounter with the Sun?

Bill Nye - who turns 58 today - says teaching science needs to be a hands-on experience in order for it to be really effective. Like the funniest moments in life, you might say, you had to be there.

Richard Feynman was struggling with an existential crisis only a member of the Manhattan Project could truly experience: "Put another way, what is the value of the science I had dedicated myself to--the thing I loved--when I saw what terrible things it could do? It was a question I had to answer."  

Whatever the mania, you can be certain that credentialed egg-heads, professional do-gooders, and compulsive busy-bodies will claim access should be curtailed, controlled or even cut off, “for the children.”

Some students take the position that the best way to change an organization is from the inside. Therefore, going to work for a company that, for instance, produces tobacco products, is the best way to affect change.

An intriguing piece of research has added an unexpected category of things that evolution may have taught us, down in our DNA, to be afraid of. Plants.

We all know Rockwell’s Freedom from Want by heart, even if we don’t know its title.

Guest post by Kevin Flora(Cross post from kevinflora.com) Forrest Gump (1994) provides an interesting and unexpected viewpoint of his exercise routine.  He runs… to run.  He is not looking to […]

There are seven billion of us now and contrary to the evening news we all get along, kind of.

Michael Gazzaniga: Scientists we sometimes get annoyed with, but not science.

Embracing messiness and understanding that it is a contribution to the creative process is something that writers and creative types have got to cultivate.

Malcolm Gladwell: It drives me crazy when people in the technological sphere inflate the importance of the kind of tinkering they do with these sort of software gadgets that they come up with.  

Malcolm Gladwell: I don’t know why we run from explanations of success that include a healthy dose of serendipity.

We always fall back on this notion that the rest of the world is somehow the way that we are. 

Michael Gazzaniga: Why does the human always seem to like fiction? Could it be that it prepares us for unexpected things that happen in our life? 

Robert Thurman: Everybody has a Buddha in there and Buddhas have more fun. 

Scientists are unsure whether a coronal mass ejection from the sun - pictured here - took the sungrazing comet out. 

People take a narrow view of decision making. They look at the problem at hand and they deal with it as if it were the only problem. Very frequently it’s […]