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"I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up."- Rosa Parks (born on this date in 1913)
Bill Nye argues that we need a generation of scientifically literate students in order to be successful in the 21st century.
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."- Gertrude Stein (born on this date in 1874)
A major advance in the use of microscopes for scientific investigation allows scientists to watch the brain create memories.
Rick Smolan: I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, maybe Julian will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.
The astrobiologist Dr. Rhawn Joseph has filed a lawsuit to compel NASA and its administrator, Charles Bolden, to take a closer look at the rock.
Pete Seeger is being remembered by many as a national treasure, a man who encouraged multiple generations of Americans to essentially rethink everything they were taught in school.
"Don’t be bored, make something" is a message that Joey Hudy, a self-described "maker" and STEM-advocate, has been taking to Maker events across the country.
A new book entertains the notion of how we can engage with those books that we haven't read, or only skimmed, or perhaps only heard about.
If disruptions are threatening you from outside your industry, how can you see them coming?
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."- James Joyce
"I will not take 'but' for an answer."- Langston Hughes (born on this date in 1902)
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."- Jackie Robinson (born on this date in 1919)
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."- Franklin D. Roosevelt (born on this date in 1882)
“The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.” ― Emanuel Swedenborg (born on this date in 1688)
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (born on this date in 1873)
One might say of Bach's time, it's unheard of to combine opera with a religious theme, my dear.
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."- Lewis Carroll (born on this date in 1832)
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."- General Douglas MacArthur (born on this date in 1880)
An experimental device has been unveiled in a paper in the journal Nature that promises to be able to keep accurate time for the next 5 billion years.