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You don't have to submit to your enemies at all in order to control your anger toward them. In fact, you can drive them crazy - and who wouldn't want to do that to an enemy?
"According to one recent estimate," writes Robert de Neufville on Anthropocene, "the Earth could—theoretically at least—produce food for more than 280 billion people."
"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener."- George Balanchine (born on this date in 1904)
In the video below, watch as SpaceShipTwo's hybrid rocket motor powers the spacecraft to a top speed of Mach 1.4, or 1.4 times the speed of sound.
A message from the "Interstellar Safety Council" warns other life forms not to visit Earth, a planet that is governed by "the survival of the fittest."
The apparent size of this Full Moon is compared to the last Full Super Moon (from last June), which was when the Moon was at its closest point in its orbit.
Facebook has the same properties as an infectious disease. It has spread infectiously and will die off in a manner that is consistent with epidemiological models.
"What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?"- Paul Allen (born on this date in 1953)
In the Human Genome Project, multiple countries and thousands of scholars proved how a "grandly large project" could be completed if it has "a very defined goal."
If the products and services of U.S. companies are seen as "compromised," technology executives worry that foreign consumers may abandon them in favor of "N.S.A.-resistant" products such as the blackphone that Big Think wrote about recently.
A startup called Elio Motors is preparing to launch a $6,800 car in 2015 that boats impressive efficiency - up to 84 miles per gallon for highway driving (49 miles per gallon for urban driving).
Human brains are the sources of ideas and ideas multiply all other resources and make your life better.
Highly effective impulse marketing strategies have been perfected for selling junk food. Obesity rates have skyrocketed.
"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."- Federico Fellini (born on this date in 1920)
"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves."- Daniel Webster (born on this date in 1782)
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali (born on this date in 1942)
Dennis Kozlowski, the founder and former CEO of Tyco, is seen as a poster child for an era wrought with greed and corporate corruption. Catherine Neal challenges this one-dimensional view of the man.
On a small island off the coast of Norway, the water froze so quickly that it caught a large school of fish in place.
In response to the data-harvesting practices of the NSA, a new smartphone has been unveiled "whose whole purpose is to protect users' privacy."