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Jonathan Taplin: There is an assumption that young people don't care about privacy anymore. I think that's probably a false assumption.
If we scaled the entire Universe’s history from the Big Bang until now to be “one Universe year,” what would our future look like? “The way to love anything is to […]
Kindness is not about "being a doormat and letting someone walk over you." Kinndness needs to be "infused with wisdom, supported by courage, and threaded with balance."
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We tend to see kindness as a secondary virtue. Sharon Salzberg asks why kindness is often degraded as a foolish reaction, as compared to the force that it genuinely is.
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."-Isaac Asimov (born on this date in 1920)
No matter what industry you’re in, your company can’t survive without technology. From smart phones and tablets to mobile apps and cloud-based technology, there’s a plethora of technological advancements to […]
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."-J. R. R. Tolkien (born on this date in 1892)
How a new year, a new platform, and the same core cosmic principles are coming together to bring you the greatest stories the Universe tells us about itself. “Beauty is everywhere […]
Many characteristics of the sociopathic personality—charm, ambition and impatience, an ability to attack problems with cold-hearted logic (not letting emotions get in the way)—are useful to society.
If we want to fail fast and fail hard, we should be sure to be mindful about disrupting gurus of innovation.
What the entire natural history of everything would look like compressed down into a single calendar year. “[D]on’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live […]
Now we’re starting to see how genome research is fulfilling the promise of why we pursued the Human Genome Project in the first place.
It is surprising that, given how widespread hangovers are (especially on New Year's Day), there is not more scientific consensus on what causes the phenomenon.
This looks like a pretty standard map of a bit of Denmark. In fact, it is no such thing. For there isn’t really a town called Köbstad in Denmark, […]
The vast majority of New Year’s resolutions, by some counts 88 percent, fail. Without a mechanism to encourage compliance, without some self-conniving, the natural tendency you have not to comply with your resolution (which is why you need to “resolve” to do it in the first place) will almost always win out.
This mathematical fantasy landscape was created by expanding on the Mandelbrot set of fractals to three dimensions.
At one second past midnight on Tuesday, the day will change to Wednesday, a normally unremarkable transition that happens every day, with no significance. But somehow this change, which […]
As genomics becomes relevant to medical care, regulatory agencies like the FDA are going to be watching this and making sure it’s being done properly.
The auroras appear mostly green, as high energy particles hitting the Earth's atmosphere cause the air to glow as electrons resettle into their oxygen hosts.
Spirit worship and possible side-effects TOKYO AND BEIJING – Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, shocked East Asia by visiting the controversial Yasukuni war shrine which hosts about 2.4 million […]