Neuroscience is still in the "dark ages" in terms of understanding the brain, according to Gregory John Gage.
He told HuffPost at this year's TED conference that any great thinker can be a great neuroscientist, but the field has far too few people working in it. But this doesn't have...
314 Comments | Posted March 5, 2012 | g:i A
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
Joseph Joubert
At HuffPost, we're all about finding ways to move the national discourse beyond the outdated dichotomy of left and right. Today, we are launching a new platform for...
3 Comments | Posted March 1, 2012 | g:i A
Since 2005, the TED conference has awarded $100,000 prizes each year to individuals with an idea to change the world. This year, the award was distributed in a different way: to an idea, the City 2.0.
The idea of a reimagined city was a dominant theme at this year's...
0 Comments | Posted September 20, 2011 | g:i A
A few years ago my friend Sam Novey ran social media for a relatively unknown candidate during the race for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. The candidate billed himself as a "social entrepreneur" looking for grassroots solutions to our major problems. At the time, I had just founded an Internet...
0 Comments | Posted March 9, 2012 | g:i A