The physicist was both a gentleman and scholar.
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“Competition creates efficiency,” is preached as if it were a law of nature. But nature itself teaches a different lesson.
Not only is religion just as bad as an infectious disease, Mr. Dawkins also says it is a form of child abuse.
So, here’s the question for today: How should we respond when people we admire make serious missteps? Just so there’s no confusion, I want to say right up front that […]
As businesses grow, bureaucracy threatens to overwhelm the best efforts of the entrepreneur and his team. How can you keep success from unraveling your business?
Here is Part 1 of my notes from our day with Will Richardson. You also can see the live chat and/or follow the Twitter conversation and/or participate in EtherPad. I’m […]
It is not often that a celebrity memoir makes the leap from the front page of the New York Times Arts section to its Op-Ed page, but then what less […]
Yesterday, Howard University hosted a panel discussion on “The Poetry of Science” featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins. Among subjects, Tyson and Dawkins discussed the prospects for life on […]
Bringing immigrants out of the shadows, on both sides of the pond.
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When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Here's how to avoid getting duped by the "dark patterns" of online businesses.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Many atheists think of themselves as intellectually gifted individuals, guiding humanity on the path of reason. Scientific data shows otherwise.
If we are wreaking havoc on ourselves and the world, it is because we have become mesmerized by a mechanistic, reductionist way of thinking.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
Despite all that we've learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could "God" be the answer?
George Washington, for example, was quite happy to engage in deception, if that deception would help protect the United States.
Frank Lloyd Wright captured serenity in his masterpiece, Fallingwater, but his egotistical tendencies made life for others anything but serene.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton's second law.
The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.
Intrapreneurs tap into the spirit of entrepreneurialism to innovate and find personal meaning at work, but organizations need to celebrate their efforts more.
The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.
It's been precisely 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang occurred. Here's how we know.