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By crunching data posted by Facebook's 845 million users, professional research teams are coming to a better understanding of human behavior through how they behave online.
I started a version of this post a couple weeks ago, but since then the dispute between libertarians about the place of "social justice" in their philosophy has become white-hot, […]
The same cultural zeitgeist that gave us the metrosexual - the urban male obsessive about grooming and personal appearance - is also creating its digital equivalent: the datasexual. The datasexual […]
Ned Resnikoff picks up on my old post, via a terrific recent one by Daniel Little, on the radicalism of John Rawls' position on economic liberty: If we’ve to fairly […]
On the night of April 13, 1970, astronaut Jack Swigert famously beemed into NASA headquarters to declare “Houston, we have a problem.” A nation of inspired onlookers watched in suspense […]
While we don't always realize it we are better connected, healthier and more secure than any generation before us.
A subtle but undeniable shift has been taking place in American corporate management theory. Roughly, the change corresponds to psychology’s shift from punishment & reward focused Skinnerian behavioralism to a focus on human relationships and development.
What is the Big Idea? Jim Yong Kim, a global health expert and the president of Dartmouth College was named as the next president of the World Bank, according to […]
For this week’s post I would like to ask a single question: What is democracy? Please share your answers in the comments. I will feature what I think are the […]
An ill-timed African vacation (to shoot at elephants) has landed Spain's royal family in hot water with the public. At what point do cultural traditions themselves become anachronistic?
The XTR3D is a touch-free software interface that only requires a simple 2-D camera to operate. XTR3D creates a three-dimensional image of the user which can then be used to […]
Soccket, a soccer ball that stores the energy generated while playing with it, was developed by Uncharted Play, Inc. The product of an engineering class for non-engineers at Harvard, Soccket […]
Le Chal, a shoe that may replace the cane for a visually impaired person, was developed by Anirudh Sharma. Le Chal, or "The Take-Me-There Shoe," uses a phone's GPS along […]
The Ekso is a bionic exoskeleton designed by Ekso Bionics in order to help wheelchair users walk. Essentially a wearable robot, the Ekso allows people who suffer from paralysis or […]
Fitocracy is a social fitness network that rewards its users with experience points, allowing them to level up and complete fitness “quests” with other users, creating a fun and challenging […]
If you’re a parent and you want to introduce your child to art, it’s sometimes hard to find that perfect combination of optimism and imagination in a single artist. Too […]
The news service for the College of Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin has a good summary of a recent article at The Scientist by several colleagues who spotlight […]
Since Germany decided to wean itself off nuclear energy, it must find new ways of achieving energy independence. That means connecting small energy suppliers to self-sufficient grids.
--Guest post by Erin Brett, American University graduate student. Last month, in advance of April Fools Day, CBS Morning News correspondent and satirist Mo Rocca met with the cast of […]
In France, it seems that respect for the institution of marriage carries with it a certain tolerance for extra-marital affairs. In divorce-happy America, should we accept cheating?