According to the debt-averse deficit hawk position fueling Republican budget proposals, we need to slash government spending to promote economic growth. That assumption relies on a 2010 research paper by two Harvard economists that we now know is studded with errors.

Our genome sequence does not determine everything that is going to happen to us throughout the rest of our lives.

Artists have to try to connect.  They have to try to be very clear in what it is that their purpose is and what it is they’re conveying because otherwise, it’s just more stuff. 

Companies like Facebook do have human rights responsibilities. 

A student received a score of A+ for answering questions like "The Earth is billions of years old" by answering "False."

Flipperbot, the robot in the video below, was designed to test how sea turtles and other real-life organisms move outside the water.

Rigorous review is not a new idea. In fact, it's a method of evaluation that goes back to ancient Greece. It needs to be reclaimed.

Is innovation best pursued through fear or through long-term thinking?  

If the maxim "Life finds a way" happens to hold true on a distant planet, it likely not to be our way. 

We can only overcome our estrangement with people and products through refamiliarization, or the process of becoming reacquainted with humanity. 

Creating clarity with a large, diverse team is one of the huge challenges that any leader is faced with. 

The development of technology and social media in particular has exposed all of us much more than in the past.

We ought to be aware that these are two different spheres that have their own areas of relevance.

When you click on an article you are voting. You’re telling an editor to produce more content like that at the expense of the stuff that you didn’t click on.

Good money managers have a healthy dose of paranoia in their personalities and cynicism and, some of them will say realism, but we know it’s cynicism. 

“Natural gas is in the process of wiping out the coal industry, and it’s wiping out the nuclear industry quicker than we thought.”

The picture above is an illustration of what the Jefferson Memorial would look like 25 feet underwater.

In an excerpt from Gary Greenberg's book, The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, the author argues that psychiatry is out of touch with today's science.

For those women who are still interested in the conventional monogamous heterosexual family, the sexual revolution has placed these women in an asymmetrical relationship to men.

So, you’re not good with numbers.  Well, welcome to the crowd. There are many, many, many people who are not.