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For help in this endeavor they're turning to, among others, Charles Darwin, a University of California-Berkeley researcher, and an illustrator at Pixar.
The fear of death. That's how a friend of mine who works in television described the essential ingredient of hit reality shows like Ice Road Truckers. That's why people watch. […]
Thanks to a government lawsuit, a digital rights group has released what they claim is a partial list of organizations across the country that have applied for permission to fly drones.
More than 1.7 million were sold last year alone, revealing an aging culture's devotion to tradition and a technological lag behind other developed countries.
Psychological Science in the Public Interest evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions.
Rather than admiring from afar the protesters in India, and congratulating the national leaders who have begun to address sexual violence in the U.S. military, we need to confront the broader problem of misogyny in American legal culture.
If any painting could be labeled “not safe for work,” it’s Gustave Courbet’s 1866 L'Origine du monde (in English, The Origin of the World; and, once again, NSFW). Banned even […]
On February 15th, the people of planet Earth will receive a wake-up call from our Solar System. Asteroid 2012 DA14, discovered just 1 year ago, will narrowly miss hitting the […]
Imagine that the president of the United States could legally order the preemptive killing of any American citizen he deemed a potential threat to the country. A Justice Department white […]
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Just as you wouldn't want to pick a baseball player for your team without an adequate record of past performance, you wouldn't want to pick a leader by taking a […]
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There are a lot single people who are very happy. Moreover, the scientific literature tells us that if you have not found a partner, there's a lot of hope for […]
There is a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt in today’s world. North Korea might hit us with nukes. The stock market might crash at any moment. The U.S. government […]
Ludwig van Beethoven is credited with saying, "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." And while some may argue the point, there's certainly been a good bit […]
We are very good at generating data. We are just learning how to utilize it, but the mobile health revolution is one of the most promising applications we have seen in this field.
Scientists at Stanford University have created a tiny probe that emits light when inserted into a living cell without damaging or disrupting the cell or its functions.
Let Valentine's Day be a time to reflect on our love affair with technology. Are school leaders in this relationship because they believe in the power of technology to enhance […]
Later this month, a filmmaker will screen a movie for which sensors on selected audience members will determine which scenes will appear on screen.
A Microsoft-funded project is bringing wi-fi to remote areas of Kenya using solar power and the bandwidth being freed up as TV goes from analog to digital. The country could find itself "in the global vanguard of white-space roll-out."
Scientists at King's College London have developed a method that delivers vaccines through the skin using a dissolvable microneedle array.
The Intangible: Earn Trust. Be Relatable. Be Influential. Be Creative. Level Status. Resolve Conflict. Leverage Talent. Build Strong Teams. The Tangible: “Yes, And…”Outside of an awfully good oxymoron, and with […]