John Hunter uses Sun Tzu's The Art of War to help students develop habits of mind that include collaboration and peaceful conflict resolution. 

Researchers believe this cave painting may turn out to be over 40,000 years old, old enough to outdate modern humans. 

If you’re an empathetic or a kind-hearted person, how do you protect yourself? 

Currently, the technology known as "Active Denial" only operates from a large truck, but a report indicates that Raytheon is developing a version that police officers can use to disperse crowds.

There’s a lot of hype that goes into the disruptive innovations and then there’s a froth and foam that’s associated with that. 

Why don’t we hesitate getting into a car and driving 60 miles an hour with cars coming towards us at 60 miles an hour in the opposite lane?

So libertarians are rightly outraged by the Obama administration’s new Puritanical speech code.  But others have either praised or blamed that same administration for its “aggressive libertarianism” when it comes to sexual […]

As a follow-up to my earlier post about the mission creep of sexual objectification into places where it just doesn’t belong, here are two more examples. I could write a […]

Technology can bring us closer and then can also keep us farther apart from each other.

Technology makes bombs and it can put us on Mars. Technology is neither good nor bad. It is a reflection of us.

By not using actual embryos, scientists at two Oregon-based institutions sidestepped one of the largest issues surrounding stem cell technology. The breakthrough follows similar success with monkey skin cells in 2007.

Drones aren't just the instruments of a tyrannical government that wants to kill its own citizens. Drones have an artistic side too.

When you think of a prosthetic limb, the first thing that comes to mind is not beauty. After all, these are products that are made by engineers, not designers. 

In tests done on mice, the hydrogel effectively disguised the implant and tricked the body into thinking it wasn't even there.

In conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and TIME, Google released millions of satellite images that cover a quarter century.

It’s never too late to find a mentor. But the most important thing is is to be realistic and practical.   

I hated the idea, the underlying premise of documentary filmmaking, hated it. 

The term "Big Data" naturally conjures up images of Big Users, like the government or Google or Costco. It's easy to see why big enterprises crunch data to learn, for […]

Lower your expectations now. You'll find yourself much more satisfied by the end.

Last month President Obama launched the BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative to enable scientists to create a dynamic picture of brain function.