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If population growth was slower, then fewer people would have come up with all the great ideas that enhance your life today, whether it’s antibiotics or the electric light or […]

Susan Barry: It’s a good idea to see a developmental optometrist and determine whether or not binocular vision issues are impacting your child’s ability to read. 

Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.

Constrains, willingness to fail, willingness to take big risks and rapid iteration are absolutely fundamental to innovation. 

God doesn’t answer back.  That’s the problem.  Humans can.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The change we are talking about for the Muslim world is essentially a change where we hope that Muslim individuals will be emancipated from their own concept of a God, submission to the will of Allah. 

Typically you have to commit a crime before you are penalized for that crime. But what if Big Data can predict that you have a likelihood of committing a crime?

In this century there are four billion people around the world who now have the possibility of enjoying the benefits of business. 

Neutrino physics is becoming more popular and attractive since it is, relatively speaking, cheaper than big accelerator physics compared to the cost of, for example, the Large Hadron Collider.

Cancer is fundamentally a disease of the genome. What has happened in the past ten years since the end of the Human Genome Project is the recognition that we can […]

Before you buy a house, before you buy a car, before you start acquiring things, first put away enough savings so you could go a year without a job because you might have to.

Neurotheology is a way of trying to understand the subjective nature of the mind. 

2014 might mean out with the old (as was the case with Comet ISON, which fell victims to the sun), and yet, Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) is still alive and well, and was captured in this scene on New Year’s day.

We have an archive of antique and, in fact, fossil DNA in museums that compliments the DNA and the genomics that we acquire from living humans and living animals. 

There’s a woven web of ecology that ties humans deeply to the rest of the living things on this planet. 

We’re literally learning as much about the evolution of life on Earth by looking at what happened in the past as we are at looking at the breakthroughs in genomics and DNA of living things. 

We tend to see kindness as a secondary virtue. Sharon Salzberg asks why kindness is often degraded as a foolish reaction, as compared to the force that it genuinely is.

Now we’re starting to see how genome research is fulfilling the promise of why we pursued the Human Genome Project in the first place.

In order to better visualize the Martian moon Phobos, images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter have been combined to create a virtual rotation movie.

Is therapeutic cloning the biggest scientific breakthrough of 2013?

When you looked at advertisements for campaigns or projects, you would think that almost every African on the continent has HIV/AIDS, that as soon as you stepped foot there you were at risk.

Nicholas Negroponte talks about the failings of the current education system and the need for a more nuanced and personalized approach that teaches students how to learn.

David Shenk: I think the really dangerous and oppressive myth of IQ is that IQ tests are identifying some kind of quantity of intelligence that we are born with and that we have this static amount of intelligence that we’re going to carry with us throughout life.

There is a large group of child prodigies who go on to a life of relative mediocrity.

The difference in personalities between people who get good at stuff or get great at stuff is the people who get great at stuff really find satisfaction in the constant pushing process. 

A large asteroid hit us in the Yucatan Peninsula causing the mass extinction. Was the impact just the coup de grace coming on an already affected world?

We are now at levels that the world has not seen for the last 40 million years and we will soon be at carbon dioxide levels that existed 100 million years ago when we had a true hot house world.  

Other primates don’t seem to share their own desires and intentions with others, which leads to a lack of cooperation in a lot of domains. 

Lee Smolin: As long as people of faith respect the facts and the deductions of science we should be respectful of their faith and their search for a faith.

Vikas Pota: I care a lot about education because I’m the product of education.