The future is coming and it's coming at a fast and furious pace. How can brands keep up with this ever-accelerating velocity of disruption? A recent article in Fast Company explores […]

As a spectator you generate a fair amount of creativity in reconstructing an image in your head in a way that is unique for you and is slightly different for me.

The idea that a painting is not complete until the viewer responds to it was conceived of by Alois Riegl. He determined that as art evolved, you see there’s a […]

We are socialized to blame ourselves when things go wrong in love because that is what is available to refashion when you are in a psychiatrist's office. 

We are socialized to blame ourselves when things go wrong in love because that is what is available to refashion when you are in a psychiatrists office. Sociology can help […]

This week my son’s school was canceled for the day, in the usual hyperventilating overreaction to weather. At first the school proposed to open two hours late, and I was […]

In Mexico City, one of the world's most polluted cities, construction is underway on a tower shielded with a tile screen that breaks down smog into less dangerous components.

It seems like everywhere you look on the Internet these days, you’ll see the ubiquitous hashtag. The hashtag was the "Word of the Year" in 2012, and for good reason. What […]

Originally designed for the elderly and disabled, the Hitachi Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System negotiates itself around pedestrians and over uneven terrain using a variety of sensors and guidance systems.

With Easter and Passover on the minds of so many millions of Christians and Jews this weekend, so are the deeper themes of renewal, promise, and liberation that these religious […]

First things first - I’m not a doctor, but the surprise new rules issued by the GMC (the British regulator for doctors) still worry me. Not just because I might perhaps one day […]

The California city may be the first in the nation to replace residential electric meters with smart meters that provide outdoor wi-fi through a separate channel.

A Florida-based startup has created a bracelet-type device that works with RFID tags at hand washing stations to ensure that its wearer is being thorough. It's currently targeted at the healthcare industry, where infections can be very expensive.

Created by researchers at the University of Texas-Austin, the cloak only works in the microwave spectrum but could theoretically be used to hide objects in visible light.

In the 1960's Stanley Milgram introduced the lost letter technique which had a notable impact on the field of social psychology (unfortunately the original paper is still paywalled even though […]

Prison does things to a man, even if he gets to go home at the end of a long day of guarding the inmates. Scotland’s HM Prison Barlinnie features the […]

If you went on Facebook yesterday, it may have appeared that everyone's profile had suddenly gotten hacked. Your timeline was probably awash in a sea of red equal signs or […]

In a radio interview last week, controversial New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg all but conceded that unmanned NYPD spy drones would one day be flying overhead in Manhattan. It's a "scary" concept, […]

Experts say that climate change is affecting the wine industry both in terms of budding grape growing locations -- like Denmark -- and the quality of wines produced in established locations.

1. The Bill Gates Condom The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will award a $100,000 grant to the person who invents a next-generation condom that "significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in […]