The vault, aptly labeled "Memory Lane," houses over half a century of little yellow bricks.

Some scientists believe that humanity's best shot at colonizing other planets lies in working within existing physics using organisms — in this case, bacteria encoded with human DNA — that can survive the trip.

General relativity sure does make some counterintuitive predictions. “They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.”–Steven Wright Each week on Ask Ethan, I take a dive […]

Teenage monkeys tended to drink more fermented sugar cane than their elders. Researchers hypothesize that older monkeys drink less because of "monkey politics".  

Insight–that eureka moment when a new idea appears like a bolt from the blue–is the most essential characteristic of creativity. Without insight, there simply can be no creativity.

Philosopher Roberto Unger outlines the problem with illusion of false necessity.

Understanding how to digitally communicate is an undeniably essential tool. There’s no opting out. So much of how we connect today, in our business and personal lives, even our dating, […]

Imperative CEO Aaron Hurst (http://www.imperative.com) describes how we are evolving from an information economy to an economy of purpose. Hurst is the author of The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire […]

CAMBRIDGE – Headlines around the world last week trumpeted a watershed moment for the global economy. As the Financial Timesput it, “China poised to pass US as world’s leading economic […]

Cheeky Scottish space engineers rejoice! Teleportation of humans is theoretically possible.

LAGUNA BEACH – There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media. It is a phenomenon that has […]

I like to utilize labor. Not commodity labor like a housekeeper or a dog-walker. The economics of commodity labor are well-established though a competitive marketplace. The price of labor is […]

A new study from noted biologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University has measured the rate at which species are currently going extinct and concludes that the plant is on the brink of a sixth massive extinction of plant and animal life.

Our ruling ideas grow evermore ethically evasive. Ignoring evident big picture problems, they have us mindlessly seeking the mathematically and morally absurd. Simple maxims can clarify: Economics, the study of […]

In a five-year study of college women, sociologists found that the term "slut" is capable of changing meaning to accommodate the pernicious goal of controlling women and creating hierarchy.

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” ― William Jamesrn 

I recently stumbled upon an excellent essay by Steven Poole in Aeon Magazine on teleology (the widely abandoned philosophical idea used to support arguments for intelligent design, that in nature, […]

After decades of searching, still no evidence for dark matter has emerged, and some scientists are ready to abandon ship.

Religious freedom is a crucial right, but it can go too far.

For countries such as Egypt facing life or death questions of freedom, art itself becomes a life or death proposition. Art can inspire, challenge, question, and even comfort, but can […]