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"The elimination of poverty ought to be within our grasp, and yet for hundreds of millions of people over the globe, it remains but a dream. Why can’t the world’s wealth be shared?"
"Magicians dazzle us by exploiting loopholes in the brain's circuitry for perceiving the world and paying attention." Two neurologists follow a street magician in this Scientific American report.
"Suborbital spaceflights that rely on rubber-based rocket fuel could shrink icecaps, alter the ozone layer and affect global temperatures, according to a new study."
"Halliburton isn’t on the ballot next Tuesday, but it might as well be." Robert Reich says the midterm elections are a referendum on corporate control of Washington D.C.
“The Fed should buy a brain scanner.” Neuroscientist Read Montague at Baylor College of Medicine looks at the brain to explain the market's boom and bust cycle.
"Electric cars with decent range are just around the corner." Paul Markillie at Intelligent Life Magazine takes a G.M. car for a spin that runs primarily on an electric engine.
"Self-driving cars, a windmill farm in the middle of the ocean—what is the search giant up to? As with its once-baffling investments in the likes of YouTube, Android and Wave, we'll see."
In place of ethanol production largely judged to be harmful to the environment and automobile engines, new producers are making hydrocarbon fuel from cellulose.
An eighteen year-old Maryland girl has retained the body and mind of a toddler; she apparently is not aging. Scientists hope to uncover the child's secret.
"Does a flourishing economy depend on delusion?" Virginia Postrel says the overly optimistic attitude of entrepreneurs is essential for a continually productive economy.
Give it a rest, Gawker. Don't tell me you slut shamed Delaware Republican senate candidate Christine O'Donnell for any higher purpose: What's missing from most of the criticism is this […]
Here is a huge UK domestic political story, with major ramifications for the future direction both for nuclear defence and foreign policy. It goes to the heart of Britain's relations […]
It seems that every year or so, the unveiling and delivery of a new supercomputer that trumps the previous speed record sweeps the headlines. In fact, there are so many […]
“I do not support the idea of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell before our military members and commanders complete their review.” That’s what Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said to explain […]
Recently, I've been getting calls from the media, asking me about the 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie which shows a person talking into what appears to be a cell phone. How […]
FDR's words about nothing to fear but fear itself proved anything but prophetic for comic book censors a decade later.
-The Central Park Zoo welcomes baby mongooses. (Yes, that is the correct plural.) -Great moments in occupational health and safety: London, 1852, the Head Keeper in the Serpent Room at […]
Every so often a meme comes along that reaffirms the positive potential of the Internet. Dan Savage's "It Gets Better Project" is one such example. "When a 13 year-old kills […]
A new paper that finds that male professors who are "hot" are financially rewarded, while female professors who are "hot" are not.
Maurice Ashley is not your typical world-class chess competitor. For starters, he is the first (and, so far, only) African-American grandmaster. Then there is the fact that he is one […]