Americans spend half the amount of time cooking than we did in the 1960s, and we have also defined "cooking" down to activities such as getting a pizza out of a box.

Avegant's wearable goggles work by projecting images directly onto the user's retinas, allowing the eyes to relax in a way that focusing on a screen doesn't.

Thailand's capital has long been a dangerous and unfriendly environment for cyclists. However, various public and private efforts are resulting in a slow increase on city roads.

A petition garnered 120,000 signatures, which is more than enough to merit a government vote, possibly before the end of this year. If it passes, it will apply to every member of the working adult population.

The American economy is not recovering because we’re still in the hangover of 30 years of debt buildup. 

Why is the Bible so obsessed with hygiene?

Both are being exacerbated by climate change, but the threat to civilization caused by drought is more immediate, with one study suggesting that it may have influenced current Middle East unrest.

Our problems have gotten worse and they’re getting worse faster and faster because that’s the nature of exponential growth.

            PIPELINES!!!!! Evil! Dangerous! Huge threats to the environment! MUST BE OPPOSED! Could there be a clearer example of how naïve and simplistic we’ve become about the harms of modern […]

There is no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle.

Bill Nye: I don’t think U.S. students are lazy. 

Americans severely under-report how much food they eat, and this has affected decades of nutrition data. 

On March 16, 2880, 1950 DA will come very close to Earth - so close, in fact, that a collision cannot be ruled out. 

Bill Nye: Our intellect and treasure is really best used in exploring space.

Disgust with Washington has damaged both the Republican and Democratic parties and pushed support for a viable third party to an all-time high, according to a new Gallup poll.

Researchers conducted a taste-testing experiment in which participants consumed single-malt Scotch in specially-designed rooms labeled "grassy," "sweet," and "woody." They claimed the taste was different in each room.

At the time of his arrest in 1995, Kevin Mitnick was the most wanted cyber criminal in the United States. The arrest marked the end of an intense two and a half year electronic manhunt, a game of cat and mouse that Mitnick likens to a video game. 

The hacker Kevin Mitnick says he treated his fugitive status like a big video game.

Many Americans seem to hold on to a romanticized portrait of Columbus even when they are exposed to his dark side.

A new poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly blame the GOP for the catastrophe that continues this evening in Washington. Things are getting so bad for the Republicans that prospects for reopening the government and avoiding a debt-ceiling crisis are, I think, looking up.