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Cancer is fundamentally a disease of the genome. What has happened in the past ten years since the end of the Human Genome Project is the recognition that we can […]
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We tend to see kindness as a secondary virtue. Sharon Salzberg asks why kindness is often degraded as a foolish reaction, as compared to the force that it genuinely is.
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Kirk Johnson delivers a complete history of life on Earth in 3 minutes.
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Neutrino physicists are ready and waiting, hoping that one of these days a supernova will explode somewhere in our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Bach was not simply a compliant servant of the clergy of the church but expressed his own views as to how the Christian doctrine appealed to him and also how […]
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The switch to next generation DNA sequencing has drastically reduced the price of human genome sequencing over the past decade from near a billion dollars to just a few thousand.
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James Bond is probably one of the most nailed down, functional, psychopaths that there is.
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Your computer will be an assistant that helps you through the day, will answer your questions before you ask them or even before you realize you have a question
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How can you get individuals to experience a collective flow state - going into deeper contemplation and losing a sense of time?
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Ray Kurzweil is the author of the book How to Create a Mind. The first question we have for him is "why create a mind?"
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The Google Glass opens up new doors for technological and social interactions, but in an era where instant fact checking is possible, will Google Glass enable us to remain honest […]
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People take a narrow view of decision making. They look at the problem at hand and they deal with it as if it were the only problem. Very frequently it’s […]
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There's an innate drive to move to cities, where people are more clustered. The frequency for interactions is so much higher in a city as opposed to a rural area. […]
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You’ve got to hope somehow that presidents understand that the bully pulpit is still a tool that they possess.
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As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you're a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.
An oyster reef costs about the same amount of money - $1 million per mile - as a sea wall. So as an infrastructure investment, it's a tie. But when […]
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We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold - moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters - and that allows us to predict in great detail […]
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Eric Siegel never thought he would experience a machine acting in a way that he would subjectively consider to be intelligent. IBM's Watson, however, changed all of that.
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Gardiner, author of the new book, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, has a unique perspective on Bach. He is both a historian and a world-renowned conductor who has […]
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Free always wins over something that costs something.