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The Dow Jones Average is about to break 15,000. Any day now the atmospheric concentration of CO2 will break 400 parts per million. Think there’s a connection? A couple other […]
There has been much focus over recent years, on brain machine interfaces (BMI) allowing for the direct control of a computer by electrodes placed on or near the brain. Unfortunately […]
The world of Iron Man may be closer to being a reality than we originally thought. A group of design students at the Royal College of Art in London recently created […]
At a recent event, a Qualcomm executive demonstrated how scattering small cellular base stations among homes in a neighborhood could provide users with stronger signals and more efficient data transmission.
Most business organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have been dominated by large publicly traded corporations in recent decades. That dominance is now being challenged.
While the move is clearly meant to attract investment, mostly from Chinese investors with recently acquired fortunes, the rights a country supplies its citizens has not traditionally been for sale.
We are a community of messy, stumbling, fumbling beings tumbling through space wrestling with a confusing gift of consciousness. And that is the great gift of consciousness.
What is more important to address -- long-term budget deficits or unemployment?
In today's ever-changing and highly volatile world we have no shortage of predictions. What we do have is an accountability shortage.
Daniel Altman offered predictions for what the global economy would look like 10, 20, 40 years down the road. How did he do with these predictions and what does it mean for economic opportunity around the world?
Learning is no longer a singular event, but rather an ongoing project to keep yourself updated with the latest skills and knowledge.
The first 3D-printed "Wiki Weapon" known as the Liberator is fired off.
Dr. Frankenstein creates a creature called Spakesheare that immediately writes a play,Spamlet. Who is the play’s author?
As the stock market continues to rise and rise, what are we to make of a booming Wall Street when many other economic sectors are still suffering the letdown of the financial crash?
I have great hope that we can continue progress for quite some long time. But eventually in each area progress does slow down a bit.
It is "human destiny" to go to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said today at the Humans 2 Mars Summit that is taking place this week at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
I feel like once filmmakers start making movies with Google Glass, there’s no end. It’s going to revolutionize documentary filmmaking – no question.
We have to think, not just seven generations ahead - we have to think thousands of years ahead.
A dual-track system of getting a higher education while working is helping Germany keep youthful unemployment at about eight percent, far lower than southern European states like Spain and Greece.