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Borrowing from nature, an engineering company has created a robot that mimics the nimble maneuvers and speed of real tuna.
Back in July, I wrote about how the Secular Student Alliance's website had been targeted by denial-of-service attacks. In that post, I called on Christians and other theists to donate […]
PSY's viral hit Gangnam Style is testing two longstanding trends: mainstream American culture as a monolingual culture and the global dominance of the English language.
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English is the dominant inter-language of the world and it is used and spoken by vastly more people than those who have it as their first or family language. How long will this last?
It's no secret that future disruptive demographic changes will have profound implications for the relationship between employers and employees. But what's less well known is that some of those demographic […]
In our last post, Meet The New “Power Woman," we discussed the emergence of the Power Woman as a positive archetype in popular culture and we also pointed to the changing roles […]
Scientists have created a type of artificial soil that, when combined with a special solution, becomes transparent, allowing 3D imaging of plant roots and the organisms that live in them.
"We see on the basis of what we believe, not the other way around," Errol Morris told Big Think in a recent interview. In other words, our relationship to the truth is never neutral nor "value-free."
TechShop, which bills itself as "America's 1st Nationwide Open-Access Public Workshop," gives the average person access to 2D and 3D building tools that are normally reserved for well-trained professionals.
What is this thing called love? I took my own stab at understanding the neurobiological circuits underlying love and sex with my own book, DIRTY MINDS: HOW OUR BRAINS INFLUENCE […]
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Does your theory about what may have happened in a situation in some way determine the kind of evidence that you look for and the kind of evidence that you […]
A report released Tuesday says that several obstacles stand in the way of a 2015 deadline allowing civilian drone aircraft in the US, including concerns about privacy as well as overall safety.
Since my post on the U.S. embassy riots had so many good comments, I thought I'd write a sequel and continue the discussion. I'd like to offer some further thoughts […]
Is the effort extended to identify the problem matched by the effort to solve that problem? How many times have you seen an institution devote extraordinary efforts to identify a […]
Shakespeare's Caius Martius Coriolanus isn't really suited to politics, but his family and friends urge him on, and so he makes a game effort at putting up with the smelly […]
The introduction of tablets to the kindergarten crowd sounds like a phenomenal opportunity to assert the leading role of American innovation.
Mitt Romney dug himself a deep hole this week when Mother Jones released a secretly recorded video of him speaking to a group of millionaires and complaining that 47 percent […]
“What are you thinking?” is a booby-trapped marriage question. I know this, but I can’t always resist its shiny lure. My husband John and I were on a long […]
"Americans censure nepotism on the one hand and practice it as much as they can on the other." --Adam Bellow (the son of Saul Bellow)
Guy Kawasaki reflects on how he got his foot in the door at Macintosh because of who he knew, not because of his skill set. Nonetheless, this led to a […]