"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." - Khalil Gibran

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”rn rn― Abigail Van Buren

The Internet of Things is coming—are you ready? As Big Think reported recently in our interview with leading economist Jeremy Rifkin, the Internet of Things will connect everyone and everything […]

According to Open Culture, the New York Public Library just made 20,000 hi-res images of old maps available online. And they're free! Find your new wall art here. 

"Tectonic plates move and that's a fact and the world is getting warmer because of human activity. That's a fact.  If you had somebody who really strongly believed the earth was flat, you wouldn't have to have that person on a television show with the people who believe the earth is round." - Bill Nye

Is theage of climate change deniers over? Let’s hope so. Because we’ve got serious work to do. If we no longer need to debate whether the Earth is flat, then […]

"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology." - Vernor Vinge