“As a man is,” wrote William Blake, “so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.” No doubt my tumultuous childhood is a part of the reason […]
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A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
From consciousness to nothingness and beyond, these questions still baffle the brightest minds. Will they ever be solved?
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
Forgetfulness isn’t always a “glitch” in our memories; it can be a tool to help us make sense of the present and plan for the future.
We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.
It was officially closed in 2007, but has just been reopened.
Artificial intelligence has so far replaced more menial labor, but could it one day soon come for the more analytical positions in the economy like writers and reporters? What will become of journalism?
AI may help organizations overcome unconscious biases in hiring and increase diversity.
The reason why reveals a near-universal difference in the academic strengths of each sex.
Did you know the U.S. is actually almost half empty?
Should America stay out of other civil wars in other countries? This expert argues for rebel forces winning on their own terms.
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Unwittingly, thousands of Londoners cross zones of reduced civil liberties on a daily basis
Through an incredible anecdote, Earl Lewis demonstrates why STEM can’t do it alone. Scientists and humanists needs each other, and institutions have a responsibility to continue to fund and nurture the humanities.
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How many kinds of stories are there? From Harry Potter, to Oedipus and Romeo and Juliet, scientists at University of Vermont use data modeling to figure it out.
The achievements of the Millennial generation are already obvious, says playwright and comedian Lewis Black. And whatever their negative qualities, they pale in comparison to older generations.
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The angriest of comedians shares a joke about the current Oscars dilemma and why he finds discussing it such a frustrating experience.
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How the “hierarchy problem,” or why gravity is so much weaker than everything else, might be the key to the entire Universe. “I just think too many nice things have […]
And, you know, really look at what’s in front of them.
Why is gravity so different from the other forces? On the hierarchy problem. “Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence — love of […]
Of all the galaxies in our local supercluster, one outweighs them all. “I recognize my limits, but when I look around I realise I am not living, exactly, in a world […]
This past weekend people gathered in the nation’s capitol to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech that was part of the […]
Bitcoin is just the first virtual currency to make it big – and you can bet it won’t be the last.
You run the innovation playbook – a prophetic strategy, a product development obstacle course of a process, a portfolio management radar detection system and a wide array of eccentric creativity […]
This weekend I saw Lincoln, which was a tremendous movie. Daniel Day-Lewis gives a compelling performance as President Abraham Lincoln during the closing days of the Civil War, when he […]
Have you ever walked past a monument, stopped to see what or whom it was for, and either still had no idea what or whom it was memorializing or had […]
This article was previously published on AlterNet. For the vast majority of human history, the only form of government was the few ruling over the many. As human societies became […]
On my old site, I had regular link roundups for all the stories I saw that interested me, but that I didn’t have the time to write about at greater […]