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Maybe we’re not going to demonize the poor or the guy who lost his house as much as we might have 15 years ago.
Thankfully, several women’s organizations have started a campaign to have advertisers pull their dollars from Facebook until it gets over its misogyny and rape love. There’s a link to some […]
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The latest research is showing that kids who plan their own schedules, set their own work actually evaluate their own progress are actually building up their brains. Their cortexes are […]
A luxury apartment building is now under construction in Taiwan, and its design was inspired by the double helix of the DNA molecule.
Daniel Dennett has posted a fantastic set of "seven tools for thinking" in an article in the Guardian that has gone so viral that if you haven't seen it yet, […]
Athletes, workout enthusiasts, and everyone who has suffered from the embarrassing armpit "situation", rejoice. Bioengineers at University of California, Davis have developed a new fabric that works like human skin, […]
I think religious people can really help to bring the end of war about very rapidly if they embrace the tenants of their faith.
Two University of California-Davis graduate students have created a textile that uses microfluidic technology to direct liquid completely away from itself, which could result in extra-sweaty equipment.
I get fed by the human spirit by seeing the kind of art that is created there and the kinds of innovation.
To kids and adults who fear injections, Buzzy looks like a plastic toy. However, when applied to the skin, its vibrating motor and ice pack block the pain of the needle.
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"I’m not a philosophical megalomaniac," says Slavoj Žižek. Philosophy is not here to provide all of the answers. What it can do however, which is more powerful, is ask the […]
With the launch of the mobile platform UberAds, advertisers will be able to use a potential customer's publicly-available data -- including their GPS location -- to deliver extremely specific promotions.
That's the most optimistic date presented by the US military, assuming current research continues. Earlier this month, an Air Force experimental aircraft hit a top speed of Mach 5.1.
I assert that if you are depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.