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A new study confirms what psychological tests have indicated for a long time, that men and women are each better at performing different types of mental tasks.
Many depressed patients recover, with or without medical intervention, because that's the nature of the illness. It comes and it goes.
Guest post by Todd Norton (Cross post from toddnorton.me) If there is one thing I have learned as a teacher, it is that someone outside of the classroom is always […]
The issue is learning the best questions to ask and learning how to interact once you have the knowledge to create new knowledge.
We want to see ourselves in a positive light so we see our own ideas as more important than the ideas of others.
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The Google Glass opens up new doors for technological and social interactions, but in an era where instant fact checking is possible, will Google Glass enable us to remain honest […]
"We recently had to ask a rude customer to leave because of their insistence on wearing and operating Google Glasses inside the restaurant."
Amazon, the world's largest retailer, is developing systems to deliver products to customers in 30 minutes or less. How will they accomplish this? With drones, such as the "octocopter" pictured above.
Francis Fukuyama: We are programmed to favor friends and family, and this is the default mode of politics.
While hope remained over the weekend that Comet ISON may have survived its close encounter with the Sun, the 4.5 billion year-old comet fragmented on November 28.
Growth comes first, then more jobs, and then, as higher incomes translate into consumption, more growth… and then more jobs… and then more growth… until the next recession.
Astronomers at the Very Large Telescope(VLT) in Chile are using this laser to measure the distortions of Earth's ever changing atmosphere.
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." -Woody Allen (born on this day in 1935)
Spoiler warning: To understand this review, you do need to have seen the film. To say this is a spoiler warning implies there is a story to be spoilt. There […]
I loathe Amazon’s book business for a few reasons, but one of the deepest is its Vine program that offers free books to customers who are prolific in their opinions. […]
The experience of awe — in the form of mountains, canyons and outer space — makes one more apt to believe that the universe was constructed "according to God’s or some other nonhuman entity’s plan."
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." -Jonathan Swift (born on this day in 1667)
While this robot may provide security, some experts also fear its monitoring capabilities will further erode personal privacy.
Some links for your post-Thanksgiving political edification: At the Atlantic, Philip Mackowiac tells us that "Abraham Lincoln often spoke and dreamed about being assassinated" and asks whether Lincoln would have […]
Here is the big idea, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index Thanksgiving is one of the least stressful and happiest days of the year. Beyond good food – what about […]