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Don’t worry that you haven’t read every last thing because A) nobody else has and B) most of it you don’t need anyway.  

The use of digital tools might be narrowing people but I think it also has something to do with an overly global and overly sort of flattened form of sharing on the internet where people don’t have a chance to build up local bubbles.

For some of its car models, Audi has provided a free augmented reality app that allows an owner to get information about a certain component simply by pointing a mobile device at it.

How culpable is the U.S.? Should aid be cut off?

Thought experiment: can we communicate across species in a way that might facilitate a greater deeper relationship between us.

What Larry Page and Sergey Brin have in common is a real intellectual curiosity. They want to understand how the world works. 

A hawk is somebody who wants to keep all the data and a dove is somebody who says no, we need to anonymize it. 

Unfortunately the way that a lot of people do it is they take the most interesting job that happens to be randomly offered to them over the phone every several years.

If there is no drama in a meeting it has no purpose for being.

I’m not sure we can harness desire into identity in a way that doesn’t do some violence to it. 

If I’m looking to find out what is the case with the war and whether the war is legitimate, I’m probably not going to be fully satisfied with the New York Times or theWashington Post or Fox News or CNN.

Facing up to 90 years of jail time for leaking classified documents, Bradley Manning apologized during the sentencing phase of his trial. 

Is neural signature going to tell you how much in love you are?  Probably not. 

You may not make it to space in this life, but your ashes could be sent there after you die. 

Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the different types of nothing. Or something.

Theoretical Physicist Lee Smolin argues that the fundamental laws of physics are subject to evolutionary pressures akin to natural selection.

Bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe argues that the Singularity envisioned by Ray Kurzweil isn’t quite right.

Guest post by Dana Watts  For the past 7 years, I have closely protected my time with my children over the summer. Being an expat and international teacher, our school […]

Under a new law passed earlier this year, 16,000 residents who owe more than $10,000 in state taxes began receiving notices this week that their driver’s licenses will be suspended if they don’t pay up.

I’m so concerned about the fact that Big Data is going to change the world in every conceivable way.  

Certain anatomical parts, for all human history, have been there but we haven’t asked what are they for. 

I’m not good at language learning. It’s the method. And that method can be copied.  

Bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe argues that the Singularity envisioned by Ray Kurzweil isn’t quite right.

Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the different types of nothing. Or something.

Americans encounter incivility more than twice a day on average (2.4 times) according to a new study. 

Some researchers are concerned that current methods are not the least painful and least stressful options. 

The video below gives us a microscopic view of an event that is happening with great frequency this month: a mosquito is eating human for dinner. 

The NOAA visualization below depicts a giant plume of dust moving off the coast of Africa. 

Saturn, Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter will all be visible in the August night skies, as will the annual Perseid meteors. A number of nebulas will also be easy to find among the constellations.