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Falcon 9 made history in 2012 when the SpaceX rocket delivered Dragon into orbit for a rendezvous with the International Space Station. Yesterday, following two postponements, Falcon 9 launched its first commercial payload.
The more scientists discover about our prehistoric ancestors, the further they seem to fall down Alice's Rabbit Hole. Things just get curiouser and curiouser.
So the excellent editor of The New Atlantis, maybe our best journal on technology and society, reflects on the HBO series Stay of Play. It’s all about the parents finding too […]
Our understanding of neutrinos might help us solve one of the greatest questions of all time - why matter won out over antimatter, or why we are here.
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."-Thomas Carlyle (born on this date in 1795)
Sometimes the toughest shadow to escape is one you cast over yourself. When artist Art Spiegelman began publishing Maus in 1980 in chapter form in the indie comics magazine Raw, […]
“The last decade has been about sharing. The next decade will be about protecting.” - Dave Pell.
This success story is an example of taking your biggest problem and deciding to skip it.
The Chinese just launched another mission to the moon, this time a lunar probe known as Chang’e-3 (named for the mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon) containing the Yutu […]
You have to have a very quick mind and you have to have this peculiar ability to speak whilst you’re listening.
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad (born on this date in 1857)
A new study confirms what psychological tests have indicated for a long time, that men and women are each better at performing different types of mental tasks.
Many depressed patients recover, with or without medical intervention, because that's the nature of the illness. It comes and it goes.
Guest post by Todd Norton (Cross post from toddnorton.me) If there is one thing I have learned as a teacher, it is that someone outside of the classroom is always […]
The issue is learning the best questions to ask and learning how to interact once you have the knowledge to create new knowledge.
We want to see ourselves in a positive light so we see our own ideas as more important than the ideas of others.
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The Google Glass opens up new doors for technological and social interactions, but in an era where instant fact checking is possible, will Google Glass enable us to remain honest […]
"We recently had to ask a rude customer to leave because of their insistence on wearing and operating Google Glasses inside the restaurant."
Amazon, the world's largest retailer, is developing systems to deliver products to customers in 30 minutes or less. How will they accomplish this? With drones, such as the "octocopter" pictured above.