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So Peter Sacks, author of the excellent Generation X Goes to College, explains what's really wrong with the likely MOOCification of higher education. Studies show that learning through MOOCS and […]
To transform mind, body and spirit requires cultivating self-love.
Today’s Medicaid could affect a small number of poor people within two years. Truly finding out how Medicaid might change their lives would take much longer. Moreover, Medicaid would change with time, too – and almost certainly for the better.
Predictive analytics enables governments and companies to not only predict the future, but also to influence the future.
Women have come a long way in the arts, but there’s still a long way to go. It’s not so unusual to find the work of contemporary women artists in […]
University of Iowa researchers found that test subjects who played a particular video game for at least 10 hours exhibited a delay in cognitive processing loss by several years.
The feeling of certainty might be our default setting. We spend most of our mental life confirming our opinions, even when those opinions involve complex issues. We believe we understand […]
Or, more precisely, 11¾: The UK's National Trust has released its second annual list of 50 things for young people to do out in nature.
Have you noticed how women in almost every professional field today are subjected to a hotness rating? Here’s a rating of the sexiness of women in academically elite colleges. Then […]
If, as a new study claims, they can be clustered along specific routes and set for certain times of the day, home deliveries are much more environmentally friendly than individual trips to the store.
Designed with poor communities in mind, the $40 GiraDora works similarly to a salad spinner and allows its user to sit down, avoiding the pain associated with transporting water and washing clothes by hand.
Hedonometer.org, created by a team of University of Vermont mathematicians, provides daily estimates of the global mood based on a random sampling of 50 million tweets.
The Moon has played a significant role in many other historical events, from the fall of Athens to Columbus's subjugation of the Jamaican natives.
We typically focus on the positive aspects of online social networks - but what about their negative aspects? As we’re seeing in the investigation into the Boston Bombers, online social […]
We know that diversity on corporate boards is good for business and good for the world, so what steps can we take to boost women’s representation on boards worldwide?
Lee Smolin's argument that there is no scientific method attracted a lot of attention yesterday, including the following rebuttal from reader Dave Nussbaum.
Robel Phillipos is a friend of suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Here is the complaint against him.
Who will last longer -- Twitter or The New York Times?
Physicists at the world's biggest physics lab, the CERN laboratories on the French-Swiss border, have collected initial findings on anti-matter which suggest it might also have anti-gravity properties.