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One day, your personality, your memories, who you are, the essence of your soul may be incorporated on a disc as pure information. Even if you die your consciousness, in […]

Tom Stewart on the value of a much abused term.

Our smartphones and other gadgets are just “the warm up acts” of the second machine age.

One of the most famous branches in plant’s evolution is the difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms, which puzzled Darwin.

Math is not the opposite of art and poetry. In fact, every formula is a formula of love.

James Gleick ponders the paradox in information theory that since information is based on surprise, it is also chaotic and in many cases devoid of meaning.

Inevitably drug laws will be disproportionately enforced against the poor, younger and darker-skinned members of society.

Rick Smolan: I wonder if 50 years from now we’ll look back, maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.

Despite the misgivings of the clergy, Bach’s church cantatas and Passions are full of drama, internalizing and dramatizing “the situation of the individual believer, spectator or hearer.”

It was an amazing discovery that we’re all related, but it was not obvious. It’s not obvious that I’m related to a strawberry, but I am.

In the Human Genome Project, multiple countries and thousands of scholars proved how a “grandly large project” could be completed if it has “a very defined goal.”

If population growth was slower, then fewer people would have come up with all the great ideas that enhance your life today, whether it’s antibiotics or the electric light or […]

Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.

Typically you have to commit a crime before you are penalized for that crime. But what if Big Data can predict that you have a likelihood of committing a crime?

Cancer is fundamentally a disease of the genome. What has happened in the past ten years since the end of the Human Genome Project is the recognition that we can […]

We tend to see kindness as a secondary virtue. Sharon Salzberg asks why kindness is often degraded as a foolish reaction, as compared to the force that it genuinely is.

Kirk Johnson delivers a complete history of life on Earth in 3 minutes.

Neutrino physicists are ready and waiting, hoping that one of these days a supernova will explode somewhere in our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Bach was not simply a compliant servant of the clergy of the church but expressed his own views as to how the Christian doctrine appealed to him and also how […]

The switch to next generation DNA sequencing has drastically reduced the price of human genome sequencing over the past decade from near a billion dollars to just a few thousand.

James Bond is probably one of the most nailed down, functional, psychopaths that there is.

Your computer will be an assistant that helps you through the day, will answer your questions before you ask them or even before you realize you have a question

How can you get individuals to experience a collective flow state – going into deeper contemplation and losing a sense of time?

Ray Kurzweil is the author of the book How to Create a Mind. The first question we have for him is “why create a mind?”

The Google Glass opens up new doors for technological and social interactions, but in an era where instant fact checking is possible, will Google Glass enable us to remain honest […]

People take a narrow view of decision making. They look at the problem at hand and they deal with it as if it were the only problem. Very frequently it’s […]

There’s an innate drive to move to cities, where people are more clustered. The frequency for interactions is so much higher in a city as opposed to a rural area. […]

You’ve got to hope somehow that presidents understand that the bully pulpit is still a tool that they possess.

As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you’re a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.

An oyster reef costs about the same amount of money – $1 million per mile – as a sea wall. So as an infrastructure investment, it’s a tie. But when […]