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A study of participant data from the citizen science project GLOBE at Night shows that on average, people's observations of artificial night sky brightness were surprisingly accurate compared with satellites.
Robert Kaplan argues that leaders want to promote people who are authentic, and not afraid to take risks.
So what young conservative blogger/essayist would you recommend to challenge those who believe they’re smarter than every conservative in the world? Well, SAM GOLDMAN. Sam’s not the only one by […]
You can’t allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don’t go your way.
This animation shows the GOES-13 visible imagery during the daylight hours of the 20th.
How does modern technology intersect with ancient spirituality?
To buy Stephen King’s latest novel, Joyland, you’ll have to go to an actual bookstore in an actual place. He’s not e-publishing it. I got my first Kindle 18 months […]
if your school didn't have a good commencement speech, you can find a lot of them online.
Now we're in a bumpy time, so all kinds of minds matter.
Can experimental findings look too good to be true? Last week I wrote a blog post about some experiments showing a counterintuitive finding regarding how the need to urinate affects […]
Dakota was sliced in half to generate two extra Senators, and separated north from south because of resentment over the location of the capital
Modernism first moved on May 29, 1913. That’s century-old hyperbole, of course, but if any date achieves day of infamy status for modern art in the 20th century, it’s the […]
The Environmental Defense Fund's Jamie Workman says that suppressing natural forest fires has resulted in a surplus of trees that deprive humans and animals of water and habitat space. His solution: Get out the chain saw.
I study animals not to understand humans necessarily although that has become my business, of course.
Next month I will establish the world's first quantum bank. The bank will be headquartered in Rockefeller Plaza, the global center of finance.
Silicon trunks and titanium oxide branches mimic the process of photosynthesis by converting sunlight into hydrogen and oxygen, both of which can then be used to power fuel cells.
Memes are biological entities that perpetuate themselves through history by replicating and by competing in a Darwinian fashion.
Information is what we love, information is what we live by and it’s always been that way.
My fear is that there's a lot of pressure on public corporations no matter how well intentioned their managers are to produce results.