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On Monday, the Supreme Court set aside the ruling against Jack Phillips, a baker who cited religious beliefs as the reason he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2012.
Designed at Chicago's Toyota Technological Institute, it can help a car figure out its location even when it's under a bridge or going through a tunnel...a useful skill in the coming driverless age.
It never ceases to amaze me how the media just loves to find bad in the good (or at least the interesting). I’ve seen a number of article or blog […]
When plans fall apart, adaptability can build something better.
New research is uncovering why we eat first with our expectations.
The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
ÄIO’s fermentation process creates healthy, sustainable oils and fats by upcycling low-value industry organics.
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.
Millennials — who were raised to expect unlimited success but found only disappointment — can be drawn to manifestation.
It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.
Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
What do Remus Lupin, Katniss Evergreen, William Wordsworth, and Usain Bolt all have in common?
Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
At least one of Earth's creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
Satanic cultists don't even believe the Devil exists. Satanism is largely a religion focused on secular humanism and hedonism.
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed "Baker-Miller Pink."
Game theory is a unique combination of math and psychology. Its applications turn up everywhere, from nuclear war to Tinder to game shows.
Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
Cities overstimulate our senses and are full of people we don't know. Maybe humans were meant for this.
The few seconds of nuclear explosion opening shots in Godzilla alone required more than 6.5 times the entire budget of the monster movie they ended up in.
Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?
The neoliberal call for more 'choice', seems hard to resist.