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You’ve got to hope somehow that presidents understand that the bully pulpit is still a tool that they possess.
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As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you're a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.
As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you're a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.
In September I covered a paper that described the massive amount of bias created in the legal system in parts of the US where forensic laboratories are paid in return […]
How do 21st century photo editing techniques impact classic conceptions of beauty? Just have a look at the image above, by the Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano. Giordano's Venus project gives Photoshop makeovers to paintings such as Botticelli's La Nascita di Venere.
The screenwriter Danny Strong explains how listening to critical feedback is essential to the creative process.
The tens of thousands of turbines generating power around the world on land and, increasingly, at sea, represent a stunning reversal of fortune for an industry that fifty years ago was virtually non-existent.
In science, and genomics in particular, the difference between what we know and what we don’t is enormous. At this point, we’re still figuring out how much we don’t know.
Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, tells Big Think that people should have access to anything that is fundamentally theirs.
MIT's Donald Sadoway advocates "science and service to society" as opposed to "science and service of career building."
The less we know about something like energy, the more likely we are to use and abuse it in ways with long-reaching, harmful consequences.
If you have not found a partner or if you're not sure if you want to compromise or you want to live with someone else for the rest of your life there's just a lot of hope for you out there from the science.
If you can think of a human activity or occupation, there will be people who love it and live for it and others who couldn’t bear it.
Animators at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. created this short movie showing how the sun can cook a comet.
I was in a creative nonfiction program some years ago, and as part of the program, students would visit with culture magazine editors in New York. An editor explained to […]
Within some non-Western cultures, voice hearing is valued and it would not be seen as indicative of any illness at all.
Non-interference was probably the most important thing that happened in my professional life.
Emerging economies may have a bigger impact on the American economy and in particular they are powerful enough to take away the lower value added jobs in the tradable sector to an extent that may have an impact on work opportunities for a subset of our fellow citizens.
This "autonomous pack horse" is designed to interact with troops in a "natural way" like a trained animal would.
You’re trying to really pit your wits against history, but we’re all in that situation.