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When you concede a point, what you're doing is making an investment in your ability to be taken seriously and listened to by people in the future.
You can take your competitive drive and use it to make you more receptive to changing your mind if the evidence warrants it.
Whether we concede it or not, humanity longs for its cosmic significant other.
New industry figures show that, as the country still struggles in the grip of an economic crisis, bike sales have outnumbered car sales for the first time.
The basic technologies to enable us to look inside the brain and see its functioning are growing exponentially. And they're at a point now where we can actually see individual interneural connections forming and firing.
An Oxford University study found that up to half of US jobs are at risk of becoming computerized in the next 20 years. Industries with greatest impact include transportation, administrative support, and, perhaps surprisingly, service.
A University of Texas-Austin study showed that test subjects presented with a comments section that had a "Respect" option tended to select it more often for comments that opposed their own viewpoint.
Newly published in PLOS ONE is a study in which students showed improved speed and comprehension when reading short lines of text on the devices.
In the history of discovery, most discoverers struggled to recognize their discovery. The value of Gregor Mendel’s famous pea experiments were only recognized decades after his death. Without the theory […]
Sorry, Honey Boo Boo: The French government moved one step closer to restricting pageant participation to contestants aged 16 and over, citing concerns about hypersexualization of young girls.
ANAR Foundation is a Mexican foundation that operates an anonymous and confidential phone line for kids and teenagers under a risk situation. In its attempt to reach more children, the foundation […]
And by "dreams" they're talking about the ones you have when you sleep: SHADOW provides tools to help users remember, record, and, if desired, share their dreams.
The unemployment rate is high among young people, but much higher among the young of the working class. What does this mean for the future of what we used to think of as "adulthood."
The company has announced the launch of Calico, which will most likely take advantage of Google's formidable search tools to help put more focus on aging and related diseases.
Without the “fresh” message of salvation and God’s love front-and-center, Catholics worldwide will continue to leave the flock.
A Swedish architectural firm is preparing to roll out a standalone, environmentally-friendly 10-square-meter (108-square-foot) pod complete with a sleeping area, kitchen and toilet.
I'm not actually predicting that until 2029 that we will match human intelligence, but computers will nonetheless do things that humans can't do.
A team of researchers is working on 3D-printing different organ cells, connecting them with a tiny circulatory system, and putting the whole thing on a two-inch chip, creating a "test subject" that's steps up from animals or single-organ cell groups.
"I do not know whether I shall return from my long weekend trip alive," the mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport once wrote. "But I do know that the number of traffic […]
University of California-Irvine scientists combined a protein found in a chameleon-like squid with graphene to create a material that could be used to hide people and objects in infrared light.