Think your job is stressful? Imagine if you had to do it strapped to the wings of a propellor plane. The Breitling Wingwalkers are a squadron of pilots and dancers […]
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Researchers are making progress in the effort to develop safe and practical supernumerary robotic limbs.
Why are we prioritizing completion, rather than actual learning?
"Think R2D2," Walmart wrote in a press release. Others are thinking "layoffs."
Why did Jackie Robinson have to break baseball’s color line in 1947 after another man broke it almost 70 years before?
Our tolerance for slowpokes has declined over the past few decades.
If you know the sexually and racially charged art of Kara Walker, you know one thing—she’s not subtle. Walker’s artistic oeuvre to date makes the title of her newest work, […]
How can you get individuals to experience a collective flow state - going into deeper contemplation and losing a sense of time?
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Seventy-five years ago, The Museum of Modern Art staged their first exhibition devoted to the work of a single photographer—Walker Evans: American Photographer. That show brought together many of Walker […]
So lots of readers (about six) have written ME asking for advice on what book they should read to turn their lives around. Here’s my recommendation: Lost in the Cosmos by […]
After taking a vow of silence for 17 years and refusing any transportation, save his own feet, for 22, John Francis is speaking out about the lessons of conservation and planetary harmony.
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker defied a court order to ban citizens from the capitol building during his budget address. Citizens were left out in the cold while Walker’s allies were […]
"We were promised a life of leisure thanks to hard-working robots and fiendishly clever cyborgs. But the android fantasy has largely been terminated," says The Independent.
Scientists have figured out how independent, programmable nano-scale robots can be made out of individual molecules—with the robots’ actions programmed into their environment.
When you’re an infant, the brain makes three dots and a line into a face; later in life, it turns a creak and a shadow into a ghost. Adults too […]
"Artists know as well as anybody that music sells stuff, so why shouldn’t they sell the stuff too?" Rob Walker says musicians no longer lose credibility by marketing products.
n nOver the weekend, Rob Walker of the New York Times took a closer look at the evolving business model for Threadless.com, which has often been cited as an example […]
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Though difficult to watch, films like "Shoah" and "Life of Crime" cover topics that should not be ignored.
No. No no no. Just... no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it's a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Break into London Zoo? Illegal, but it would improve the London Circle Walk
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can't do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
Humans who've lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
It didn't look like anything I'd seen before, but I'd be a great fool to consider "aliens" as a reasonable possibility.
Dr. Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, who is questioning the very nature of life and how we’re attempting to find it elsewhere.
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From a desert oasis to the Rocky Mountains, being filled with awe makes me a better scientist.
Even though no human has stepped foot on the Moon's surface in 50 years, the evidence of our presence there remains unambiguous.
The James Webb Space Telescope finally could answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe.
We know it couldn't have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?