Dr. Michio Kaku says "if I were to put money on the table I would say that in the next ten years as Moore’s Law slows down, we will tweak it."

Dr. Michio Kaku says "if I were to put money on the table I would say that in the next ten years as Moore’s Law slows down, we will tweak […]

Update: This interview has been rescheduled for April. You may still submit your questions below! Dylan Ratigan, the host of MSNBC's highest rated non-primetime show, will be here in our […]

I’d like to tell you why Rick Santorum’s extreme religious views should be blamed for hampering his campaign’s performance on Super Tuesday, but I don’t believe that to be true. […]

If artificial intelligence acquires something akin to human consciousness, it would be free to manipulate, seduce, bribe and blackmail. Computer scientists are working on solutions. 

Prejudice is a difficult concept to measure. One possible way is to ask people the question, “Who would you not like to have as a neighbor?”  When the World Values […]

Respected Republican leaders—such as Tom Coburn and Eric Cantor—are rallying around Romney now.  They don't see a viable alternative, and they see that prolonging "the process" isn't going to benefit […]

For some time now, cognitive scientists have been sure that the mind is not made for logical reasoning. That ability is just a lucky side effect of the work brains […]

Literature is a reflection of life, situated in the present culture but reflecting its universal values. How will the information age be brought to bear on writers and their works?

Now that Google has consolidated all user information across all its platforms, creating a massive and profound collection of personal data, have our expectations of privacy been given the death knell. 

During its famous Jeopardy! match, IBM's natural language computer named Watson was given the clue, "What grasshoppers eat." When this computing marvel answered, "Kosher," it looked dumb. 

Russia's intellectuals, creative class and Golden Youth – Russia’s modern-day Decembrists - failed to bring about revolutionary political change this weekend in Russia despite an enthusiastic past three months that […]

Museums around the world are threatened by lots of things today, but usually the mafia isn’t included in that long list. The Contemporary Art Museum of Casoria (CAM, for short), […]

With its space shuttle program grounded, NASA has found a great way to stay relevant with its daily release of images and videos, which we are happy to serve up to […]

In a previous post, we asked Dr. Michio Kaku which threats pose the greatest danger to humanity in 2012. Dr. Kaku listed, along with global warming and the laser enrichment of […]

Here’s what we can expect for Super Tuesday. Mitt Romney will win his home state of Massachusetts, the neighboring state of Vermont, and Virginia, where Ron Paul is the only […]

A Dramatic Recreation of an Argument My Dad and I Must Have Had 1000 Times:  Me: Man, De Niro has totally lost it. It is so pathetic to see him […]

Jad Abumrad won a 2011 MacArthur Genius grant for his work as creator/producer of WNYC's Radiolab. The Macarthur foundation describes his work thus:  As co-host and producer of the nationally […]

What is the Big Idea? Minutes before they're executed, China's death row inmates get their 15 minutes in the spotlight on prime time television. Their public confessions are documented in […]

IBM has built a fully integrated control center that monitors Rio de Janeiro like no other city in the world, collecting and analyzing data to help prevent catastrophe and create a more livable metropolis.