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Guest Post by Michael Phillips (Web/Social Strategist for Dr. Kaku) @MyGrayMatter, ScitechFB In late February, Dr. Kaku posted a blog entry called ‘The Technological Singularity and Merging with Machines‘ which talked […]
A dialogue with Angus Fletcher — author of the bestseller "Primal Intelligence" — exploring the unique engines of human progress.
From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.
Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we're witnessing today — and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
Don't feel like going out to vote? These ten thinkers have something to tell you.
They experience reality differently than we do.
Research finds that only 10% of cities worldwide are affordable.
The Dr. Data Show is a new web series that breaks the mold for data science infotainment, captivating the planet with short webisodes that cover the very best of machine learning and predictive analytics.
New principled approach helps autonomous underwater vehicles explore the ocean in an intelligent, energy-efficient manner.
What is the American Dream? The ever-changing definition of it might surprise you nearly as much as what it used to mean.
For Renzo Picasso, could it be that sharing a last name with last century's most famous painter pushed this visionary architect deeper into obscurity?
The apple of American politics never falls too far from the tree.
Locate any of the 57 trillion three-by-three-metre squares on Earth with just three words.
The Internet is a different beast altogether, and instead of catering to the interest of journalists, candidates can/must appeal to the masses.
Where else can you eat lunch with Pussy Riot, sit next to Senator Gillibrand as she discusses her upcoming book with her publisher as Huma Abedin rushes by to grab […]
Some links for your post-Thanksgiving political edification: At the Atlantic, Philip Mackowiac tells us that “Abraham Lincoln often spoke and dreamed about being assassinated” and asks whether Lincoln would have […]
Among the many things about America that the American Civil War changed was its art. Painting and sculpture simply couldn’t be the same. In these sesquicentennial years, every aspect of […]
While the president is "the ultimate authorizer of Armageddon," what if his mind "is deranged, disordered, even damagingly intoxicated?
I love Rockwell’s rendering of the Thanksgiving feast. Three generations circle the food—a nuclear family more rarely seen today in person, but still existing in our hearts and minds in modern permutations.
In the wake of the Dr. King Memorial kerfuffle, I’ve been thinking more and more of how public art is a state of mind as much as a physical thing […]
The international summer of troubled and/or troubling public art continues and, I hope, concludes with the unveiling of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, which was to officially take […]
A limited-edition map celebrated the coincidence of a patriotic occation with a pig-centric one.
The Republican Party has declared war on public servants in the United States the same way Middle East dictators have declared war on political dissidents. Members of the GOP like […]
Every election year, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) elects to their “Dirty Dozen” list twelve members of Congress who “consistently vote against the environment and are up for re-election […]
Planet Green ran an interesting countdown today: “6 Lessons the Green Movement Can Learn from MLK (in his own words).” Each bullet point is an MLK quote – most of […]
In a bid to win US sympathy, China’s government has argued that the “liberation” of Tibet is comparable to the abolition of slavery by Lincoln.