"The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them."
-French-Romanian Absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco, 1958
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The 'People Map of the United States' zooms in on America's obsession with celebrity
There is no one answer. But there are 10.
The GoFly challenge has just announced 10 winning flying-car designs. It’s the first phase of a three-part contest, and they’re very cool.
It's a delicious treat to watch godless libertarians rise to the defense of Protestant evangelicals this week.
A federal judge has ruled that "liking" something on Facebook does not count as constitutionally protected speech. It is a decision that has confounded some law professors.
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This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
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For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
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“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.
Knowing that technology would advance in the future, NASA put some moon rock samples into storage without opening them. Now, they have.
A computer that could decidedly pass Alan Turing's test would represent a major step toward artificial general intelligence.
On December 19 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the Apollo 17 lunar mission. They were the last people to travel […]
Even though no human has stepped foot on the Moon's surface in 50 years, the evidence of our presence there remains unambiguous.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
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The development of the revolutionary gene-engineering tool CRISPR is a tale fit for the big screen.
Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.
ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple's gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects
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Did the 20th century bring a breakthrough in how children are treated?
How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the "Genetic Pressure" series.
An elephant at the Bronx Zoo has become a cause célèbre for animal rights activists.
Physicists create quantum entanglement, making two distant objects behave as one.