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A new study has isolated stem cells in human ovaries that could be developed into mature eggs, or ova. This discovery "opens the door for development of unprecedented technologies to overcome infertility in women and perhaps even delay the timing of ovarian failure."
"If you can't say Fuck, you can't say, Fuck the government." -- Lenny Bruce In this video, Lenny Bruce excoriates the cultural impulse to censor "dirty words" over violent images, which […]
Whatever happens next week on Super Tuesday, the race for the Republican nomination is likely going to go on for a while. By winning the Arizona and the Michigan primaries […]
Have you ever considered for yourself what love actually is? Or do you assume you know what love is, based on what others may have said about this all-important topic? […]
What's the Big Idea? Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. According to Bill Nye, aka the science guy, if grownups want to […]
The Raspberry Pi computer has been met with huge public demand. Its creators hope to change the face of education, emphasizing open-source computer programming skills.
Alan Beattie's new book, "Who's in Charge Here?" takes a planet-wide look at what's been going wrong with the global economy.
3D printers have moved quickly from the industrial scale to home use but, despite futurists' claims to the contrary, they are not quite ready to make you a tea, earl gray, hot.
“Write what you know” isn’t about events, says author Nathan Englander. It’s about emotions. Have you known love? jealousy? longing? loss? As a kid, did you want that Atari 2600 so bad you might have killed for it?
--Guest post by Meredith Hollingsworth, American University student. In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger boldly declared in a white paper the death of environmentalism. They argued that the movement […]
The chipmaker has announced a $100 million fund to support investment in 'connected cars', an innovation that will lead both the computing and automobile industries in the years ahead.
Novel mobile phone chargers are on display at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, demonstrating innovative fixes to the growing energy requirement of our mobile devices.
A new point-and-shoot camera captures light rays instead of pixels which allows you to focus the image after you have taken it, changing which part of the photo you want to emphasize.
Georgetown University Professor Pat Deneen has this to say about a recent study of the opinion and attitudes of today's college freshmen: Contemporary liberals who significantly shape the views of […]
What is the Big Idea? Here’s a thought: the Middle East is one of the most resource- and culturally rich, geo-strategic and, alas, unstable pieces of ‘real estate’ on earth. […]
Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy? That is the alluring ruse proposed by this poster, […]
You should treat your life as if it were a start-up business.
What’s the Big Idea? Officially released for the TED2012 conference, this clip (above) is the latest trailer for the upcoming summer blockbuster Prometheus. Director Ridley Scott has said the movie is set […]
Why did Vladimir Putin, firmly entrenched in power, extend suffrage to all citizens and conduct an election that could have cost him his job? The answer has more to do with hanging on to power than losing it.
Fact-checkers were quick to observe how thoroughly Rick Santorum misread John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on religion and politics when the Republican contender declared his nauseaover JFK's message on the Sunday […]