"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad (born on this date in 1857)

A new study confirms what psychological tests have indicated for a long time, that men and women are each better at performing different types of mental tasks.

"We recently had to ask a rude customer to leave because of their insistence on wearing and operating Google Glasses inside the restaurant."

Amazon, the world's largest retailer, is developing systems to deliver products to customers in 30 minutes or less. How will they accomplish this? With drones, such as the "octocopter" pictured above. 

While hope remained over the weekend that Comet ISON may have survived its close encounter with the Sun, the 4.5 billion year-old comet fragmented on November 28.  

Astronomers at the Very Large Telescope(VLT) in Chile are using this laser to measure the distortions of Earth's ever changing atmosphere. 

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." -Woody Allen (born on this day in 1935)  

The experience of awe — in the form of mountains, canyons and outer space — makes one more apt to believe that the universe was constructed "according to God’s or some other nonhuman entity’s plan."

"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." -Jonathan Swift (born on this day in 1667)

While this robot may provide security, some experts also fear its monitoring capabilities will further erode personal privacy.

In two years NASA hopes to be growing plants on the moon in an experiment designed to shed light on how life can be sustained in extreme conditions. 

The comet is believed to have broken up and evaporated. 

Will Comet ISON survive its close encounter with the Sun?

Bill Nye - who turns 58 today - says teaching science needs to be a hands-on experience in order for it to be really effective. Like the funniest moments in life, you might say, you had to be there.

Some students take the position that the best way to change an organization is from the inside. Therefore, going to work for a company that, for instance, produces tobacco products, is the best way to affect change.

Scientists are unsure whether a coronal mass ejection from the sun - pictured here - took the sungrazing comet out. 

Learning faster is becoming more and more important, and we simply learn faster in cities than we could on our own.

Countries like Finland, South Korea and Poland got smarter not by spending more money or creating more tests. The children learned how to think, and to thrive in the modern economy. 

When the President gives a speech today, the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells Big Think, "you might hear the pundits tearing it down before he even finishes the speech." 

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.