How all the parts of the brain come together so that you have a unified perception of the world is one of the unsolved mysteries in neuroscience. 

The idea that there's this massive amount happening under the hood came from Freud. 

Think of consciousness as essentially the company president that has to arbitrate all the different mechanisms. 

Three nights a week, as many as 300 Runners Venezuela members jog along the streets of Caracas to maintain their fitness while avoiding being kidnapped. It's one approach to maintaining normality in an increasingly dangerous city.

A University of Toronto study showed that people who read literary fiction have less need for "cognitive closure," allowing for more creative and sophisticated thinking.

Fred Wilson thinks that Venture Capital is changing -- in 25 years, VCs may not have any assets under management. Last night, Sarah Lacy asked Fred Wilson 'The Thiel Question' […]

I wrote a short post on Thursday suggesting that whether you’re a fan or a sworn enemy of the surveillance state, you’d be wrong to condemn the pending prosecution of […]

Mass manufacturing is absolutely here to stay, but 3D printing will have a subtle but significant long-term impact on the economy. 

Scientists in South Korea have developed a highly-responsive sensor that can identify compounds found on a person's breath signaling the presence of diabetes or lung cancer.

You often hear people say there’s going to be this massive maker economy in which everybody’s a designer.  That’s actually not going to happen. 

If there's one thing that unites the good guys in movies and TV shows, it's a hatred of "procedure"—those legal niceties that get the bad guys out of jail and […]

Straight from the pages of "Harry Potter": The multi-camera system is currently used in nursing homes to monitor residents. However, its designers say it could help identify suspected terrorists in public settings.

Yes, the kitten with four eyes, two noses and two mouths is real. She was born on Tuesday and answers to, cue the pun, “Deucy.” What does Deucy have to […]

Made of an abundant and inexpensive compound, the sensor could make digital cameras five times more sensitive to light, "opening up" the realms of low-light and night photography.

How do you get a million and a half people to read a blog post on tax policy? Obama digital wunderkind Teddy Goff has a simple mantra: don't be lame. 

How do you get a million and a half people to read a blog post on tax policy? Obama digital wunderkind Teddy Goff has a simple mantra: don't be lame.

MIT designers laid 6,500 silkworms on top of a specially constructed framework and let them do what they do. Such "biological swarms" could someday be used to "print" structures organically.

For many years I struggled to bring participation into my work. Then I learned how to use technology. 

I think this whole idea owning your work seems silly to me.  I feel you should flip everything.

Geoengineering or climate engineering refers to humans taking larger action to slow down climate change or even reverse it.