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How an iconic athlete, actor and role model took the world by storm in a way you’ve probably never seen before! “I’m going to fight if you touch me or hurt […]
"We practically know the West like the palm of our hand, but the West’s vision of the East is still a murky confusion. It is thus self-evident who would hold […]
USScience Magazine excludes Chinese terminologies from its publications If the shengren isn’t science, what in China is? The shengren is the single most important concept in the Chinese tradition. Yet, […]
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Today's video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y's 7 Days of Genius Festival.
The challenge we have in a democracy is that we can change our minds depending on which party is in power.
Constrains, willingness to fail, willingness to take big risks and rapid iteration are absolutely fundamental to innovation.
Peter Diamandis: It's really when you combine AI & Robotics together that you have magic happening.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The change we are talking about for the Muslim world is essentially a change where we hope that Muslim individuals will be emancipated from their own concept of a God, submission to the will of Allah.
In order to put the right economic policies in place, we need a generally well-educated public who understand the value of these policies in the first place.
If you are in the business of trying to convince a majority of Americans, you know, 60 votes in the Senate, for example, to try to do the right thing, you probably ought to be appealing to self-interest here, not self-sacrifice.
It’s known as the Mpemba effect, and it’s been observed as far back as Aristotle. But hot water really can sometimes freeze faster than cold, and the science of why […]
Prisoners are strongly influenced by the self-enhancement motive (i.e., the desire to see themselves in positive light)...no matter what objective circumstances might be.
For one thing, if you upload your brain to a supercomputer you will have a backup copy of your bioself and you could make unlimited copies.
How one of the most interesting molecules on Earth behaves in the zero-gravity, zero-pressure environment of outer space. “Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as […]
"Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here." --Thomas Carlyle, 1840 1. Be that […]
Geniuses like Isaac Newton and Richard Feynman both had the ability to concentrate with a sort of intensity that is hard for mortals to grasp.
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, captured the X-ray glow of a pulsar wind nebula that is shaped like a hand - or at least appears that way as ejected particles interact with nearby magnetic fields.
It’s not easy to take glamour seriously. From the supermarket magazine rack glossy promising “5 Easy, Non-Stalkerish Ways to Show a Guy You’re Into Him” to the never-ending, slow motion […]
California's program is still young and isn’t the world’s first emission trading program, but here are the top four reasons we’re celebrating – and why the global community should, too.