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If the Fed still has room to juice the economy without threatening price stability, why doesn’t it?
German researchers put Android phones in the freezer for an hour in an attempt to get around their encryption systems and access sensitive data. It worked.
Charles Murray has designed a quiz he hopes will have "a salutary effect on bringing to people’s attention the degree to which they live in a bubble that seals them off from an awful lot of their fellow American citizens."
“Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurship comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.” -William Deresiewicz Imagine you are a painter […]
Designed by mobile tech company Chaotic Moon to capture events taking place during an accident, it has one of the coolest names ever: The Helmet of Justice.
Organic Transit's ELF is a single-seat three-wheeler that is a cross between a bicycle and an electric car. They could start appearing in bike lanes in a matter of months.
When applied to a wound, Veti-Gel, a plant-based version of the body's natural clotting material, also "jump-starts" the healing process. Its inventor turns 21 next year.
Here’s what happened: “Gareth Jones, a well-regarded bioethicist at the University of Otago Bioethics Centre, published a piece in the New Zealand Medical Journal …The article… defends prenatal screening for […]
I've gotten a lot of comments by email and "other locations" on the web about my recent post on Tom Friedman's expert certification of the reality of MOOCs. One comment […]
This year, a team of Georgia Tech researchers will build a prototype of their design, which they claim could transmit data at speeds of terabits per second.
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little," said Agnes de Mille, the […]
Hyundai's ix35 Fuel Cell, unveiled this week, is expected to hit the consumer market in 2015 as the world's first mass-produced hydrogen-powered vehicle.
What if you could deliver your product to your customer the moment it was manufactured? What if your customers could manufacture a replacement part whenever they need one? What if […]
You've heard it time and time again: marriage is good for your health. Studies have shown that married folks not only live longer but also enjoy better health than their […]
This week’s unveiling of Leo Villareal’s The Bay Lights (shown above), the world’s largest LED sculpture running along 1.8 miles of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, shone a light on more […]
In a paper released today by Harvard University, I analyze the career of writer-turned-activist Bill McKibben and his impact over the past 20 years on the climate change debate. Below is […]
Consumers are no longer engaged in the linear model of traditional marketing, but through a cycle, indeed a journey, across digital, mobile and social platforms.
Enclosing acres of preserve may sound drastic, but a recent report suggests that without such measures, almost half of the lion population could disappear in the near future.
Two Texas A&M University engineers say their satellite would save fuel costs by using the momentum created by removing one piece of junk to propel itself to the next piece.
The icy surface of this Jupiter moon hides a vast body of liquid that most scientists believe is water. Thanks to improved spectrometry, they now believe that that water may be salty.