Recurrent throat infections ended his college track career but now James Collins is a bioengineer researching bacteria and antibiotics. He’s found a surprising ally in sugar.
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The cost of getting DNA data is dropping faster than the cost of processing data on computers. And we’re getting better at finding genes.
Martin Seligman on why focusing solely on the positive emotion of happiness isn’t enough. Think PERMA: positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment.
Celebration of creativity for creativity’s sake. That is the inspiration behind F5 film festival that took place in New York this April for a third year in a row. “Money might make […]
More than a third of business owners—Richard Branson and Ted Turner among them—may be dyslexic says a new documentary featuring entrepreneurs who say the reading disorder is a gift.
The death of Osama Bin Laden caught the country by surprise. There was no warning, no preamble, no crescendo of media build up, just a simple announcement that crackled through […]
A study from U.S. environmental scientists suggests that a method of extracting natural gas from shale rock increases methane concentrations in drinking water taken from nearby wells.
Today, Dr. Kaku addresses a question posed by Peth Kwanchit: Will I be able to talk to my dog through a translator?
Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion in an all cash deal, and the biggest winner could actually be Facebook. Why?
Hardcore pirate, morally persuadable, legally unaware and mere music sampler. These were Lime Wire’s user categories, as revealed in the hearing involving founder Mark Gorton.
Why have so many advertising dollars left traditional news media and what can, and should, journalists do to bring them back? A Columbia University report has some advice.
Jeffrey Potteiger, an exercise scientist at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, says that calisthenics is again becoming popular, though it’s health benefits have long been known.
Coffee, sex, blowing your nose and getting mad are everyday triggers that can raise your risk of a type of stroke by causing blood vessels to burst, say researchers in the Netherlands.
Studies in neuroscience over the last few decades have confirmed an idea originally suggested by philosophers and psychologists: how much the brain can change in response to our experiences.
The idea that punishment teaches a kid not to misbehave is a myth, pure and simple. Here are three steps for actually changing your kid’s unpleasant behavior.
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Change is good. It introduces the new and tests the assumptions of the old. I have made a change in the publishing strategy of disruptivedemographics.com. Beginning May 2011 ‘Disruptive Demographics’ will […]
You’ve probably never heard of them, yet they’ve changed your life, says Frederick E. Allen of the latest innovators inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Why are we good at reasoning in some cases and hopelessly biased in others? Did reasoning evolve just to help us win arguments? Argumentative Theory says yes.
Vision determines direction. Leadership is about going somewhere. If you aren’t going somewhere, your leadership style doesn’t matter. Plus more reasons vision is vital.
They cling to power rather than develop their economies, doing little to create jobs and lift millions out of poverty. So says former UN chief Kofi Annan about Africa’s leaders.
No sooner had Britain voted in a referendum on a new voting system, the demand for a new referendum came bellowing from north of the border following the resounding victory […]
Instead of wasting our time subscribing to thoroughly discounted conspiracy theories, let’s find the tractualu cause for autism, says Michael Wigler.
Slowly but surely, outsourced computing power and an abundance of data storage has researchers looking to the cloud for resources to help them tackle tough logistical problems.
Regenerative medicine captures the body’s ability to heal itself and accelerates that to a clinically relevant time scale.
Professor of physics at Columbia University, Brian Greene explains how the idea of multiple universes, or a singular “multiverse”, supports other theories of how our universe came to be.
Scientists who claimed to have found evidence of dark matter deep within a mine in the Gran Sassoa mountain in Italy now claim there are seasonal variations in the mysterious matter’s presence.