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Planners once thought that building more and wider roads was the solution, but a new study out of California finds that 90% of any new road capacity will be swallowed up by traffic within just five years.
The World Cup begins tomorrow and the United States, simultaneously famous for its cultural diversity and its exclusive use of the word "soccer", is having something of an identity crisis.
What we are more often presented with than not--from the realm of politics to the grocery store aisle--is a phony array of options that adversely affects our individual and collective psychology.
A new international study that looks at how different species' bodies evolve over time has found that as humans have acquired more brain power, they have lost power in the brawn department.
What you know about the world and what you know about yourself practically determine your outlook on life, and the ability of social media to transmit digital information instantly has changed all that.
Becoming a fake corporate executive is an increasingly alluring option for caucasian expatriates living in China, writes freelancer Mitch Moxley, who knows from experience.
New empirical approaches to psychology are better defining the introvert/extravert dichotomy. Behavior typically belonging to introverts better reflects a new identity category: Openness to Experience.
British computing luminary Alan Turing predicted that by the year 2000, computers would be able to engage humans in conversation while seeming more like fellow humans than computers.
The Brazilian World Cup has ignited popular anger by displacing the poor with glitzy soccer stadiums filled with the glut of corporate sponsorship. And yet we can expect the anger to subside.
"For Miller the process of runaway sexual selection that gave rise to energetically wasteful ornaments like the peacock’s tail...is precisely what gives rise to Hummers and McMansions."
At the 2014 Neuroimaging conference held this year in San Francisco, industry professionals exhibited the promises and risks of being able to track, download, and manipulate brain waves.
Certainly among the postwar works, says Princeton University professor Peter Singer, is the notion that art challenges society's prevailing norms. Oh, the irony.
In the wake of the Santa Barbara shootings, in which gunman Elliot Rodger video-recorded his own misogynistic outlook on life, a national conversation began about the state of women in society.
Industrial-scale maggot production has just begun but is already showing sings of promise. But will consumers accept maggot-fed meat on their plate?
The history of the liberal arts has created many different reasons why a diverse and well-rounded education is necessary, so encapsulating one clear reason is a very difficult task.
"We are free by nature because we can become free, in the course of our development. And this development depends at every point upon the networks and relations that bind us to the larger social world."
A new way of thinking about our biology--or rather, a very old way--is essential if we are to collectively solve the existential problems that face humanity, says UC Berkeley physicist Fritjof Capra.
Today, scientists believe the stimulation can narrow the gap between when someone is introduced to a skill and when they master it and the motor skills it requires.
A German artist has taken some of Vincent Van Gogh's genetic material and used it to regrow the ear he famously cut off during a psychotic episode in 1888.
The wage hike represents uncharted territory for American economists, who are accustomed to seeing wage increases account only for inflation. The $15 rate, however, makes real gains.