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This June, an online data collection company called DataCoup will begin seeking individuals willing to sell their personal information to large corporations for a direct profit.
Even if the BICEP2 results turn out not to be from gravitational waves left over from inflation. “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of […]
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
– Zelda Fitzgerald
Following in the footsteps of other health-monitoring devices, a new internet-connected lighter is designed to help you quit smoking by measuring your tobacco intake.
“This common household object can kill you. Which one is it? Find out at eleven,” says the local news anchor promoting his show. This is an old joke. But the […]
This is how you turn cow farts into energy.
With opposition to Obamacare waning, Republicans need a new issue to propel them toward November and beyond.
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Barbara Corcoran on her system for firing salespeople who are dragging down the company.
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Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, on his latest book with Steven Levitt, Think Like a Freak.
We are all good at reacting and responding, putting out fires, and crisis management. In addition, organizations large and small have learned how to be lean and agile, and how […]
Wealthy indivdiuals are working longer hours today than ever before, unlike past generations to whom leisure time was a primary indicator of their wealth.
Cash-strapped nutritional organizations have steadily increased the extent to which their views are influenced by large food companies from PepsiCo, Domino's Pizza, Nestlé, and so on.
If cars were powered by thorium, a super-dense energy source far more compact than coal, your mode of transport could last over 100 years between fueling stations.
Interesting piece in The Economist today about Academic prestige – Why climb the greasy pole? I can only speak about the humanities, not the sciences. So, to start with: “better research” has nothing […]
These international borders follow mathematically impartial pathways, laid out by so-called Voronoi diagrams named after the Ukrainian mathematician Georgy Voronoy.
Rising concerns over the timetable for climate change highlight to extent to which humans remain shortsighted in their concern for future generations.
Just 1,400 light-years away, among all the dust of a crowded star forming region, is the Flame Nebula. NASA released this image on Saturday, and explains on its site how the […]
A pair of scientists in California are believed to have discovered a potent genetic cause of cognitive variation. The gene in question is called KL-VS.
Stephen Dubner on the strategy lessons of his latest book Think Like a Freak.
To be more innovative and productive, break out of the office culture.