Albert Einstein

Many Americans Are Content With Early Death Due to Inactivity

Jill Lawson | Posted 05.31.2012

Jill Lawson

Many of us know, yet few are willing to admit, that sitting, being sedentary, and living a computer-bound life lead to early death. These facts are so startling, yet there are still so many struggling with adopting an active lifestyle.

Can We 'Imagine' Ourselves Into A New Reality?

Peter Baksa | Posted 05.07.2012

Peter Baksa

Dreams and imagination are the paints, the colors, used to create the portrait we call life. Choose them wisely. We do this by observing and adjusting our thoughts to align with our intention.

Einstein's Favorite Condom?

YourTango | Posted 04.26.2012

Condoms have been around hundreds of years, but they've really made advances in the last few decades. Your Tango recently analyzed the best and tri...

Reunion With Soul: Launching Love Through Your GPS

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 04.25.2012

Dr. Cara Barker

Never, ever forget or doubt the difference your GPS makes when you rise above self-doubt or indifference, reclaiming the moment for what needs a voice in your heart.

Mindfulness as a Path to Personal Sustainability

Dr. Terri Kennedy | Posted 05.29.2012

Dr. Terri Kennedy

Everything you do actively creates your experience, in the past, now and in the future. Practicing mindfulness in your everyday living and adopting a mindset of sustainability allows you to live in harmony with yourself and the world around you.

Einstein's Complete Love Letters, Personal Notebooks To Be Posted Online

AP | DANIEL ESTRIN | Posted 05.19.2012

JERUSALEM -- Albert Einstein's complete archives – from personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers to notebooks scribbled with his groundb...

Save Room For Pi -- Math Lovers Get Geeked For March 14

AP | Posted 03.13.2012

BALTIMORE -- Wednesday is March 14, or 3-14, the first three digits of the number pi. With that in mind, the Maryland Science Center will be celebrati...

Einstein Right Yet Again

Victor Stenger | Posted 04.24.2012

Victor Stenger

The best lesson learned from the CERN affair is that scientists making what they think is a major discovery should hesitate before going public.

And Now for Something Completely Indifferent

Michael Sigman | Posted 04.18.2012

Michael Sigman

Conventional wisdom holds that many if not most of today's 20-somethings don't care about electoral politics -- and won't be voting for president in 2012 -- because they are indifferent to the world around them.

Time Is Nothing?

Frank A. Weil | Posted 04.03.2012

Frank A. Weil

Time is a construct of man to organize life on earth into a manageable process that can be utilized by virtually all of mankind, regardless of languag...

Marlo's Favorite Quotes

Posted 03.27.2012

I have always believed that we can all learn from and be inspired by the wisdom and life experience of others. Just like a picture can paint a thousa...

PHOTOS: 7 Famous Homes Turned Museums

BootsnAll | Posted 03.21.2012

BootsnAll

These house museums give us a sense of what life was like in a different period and a glimpse of what went into making artists, writers and great thinkers who they were.

How Celebrities Made These South American Destinations Famous

Oasis Collections | Posted 03.21.2012

Oasis Collections

What do Brigitte Bardot, Albert Einstein and the Rat Pack have in common? They each helped make previously unknown South American towns into popular destinations.

Negative Irreproducible Tweets... for Science

Michael Ham | Posted 03.06.2012

Michael Ham

Every scientist has at least one paper or graph tucked in a folder that lies in a dusty corner of the hard drive. The data is interesting, but doesn't lend itself to the creation of the grand narrative you must have for a traditional publication.

FIRST Things First

Dean Kamen | Posted 03.05.2012

Dean Kamen

If kids looked at Nicola Tesla or Bill Gates the way they look at LeBron James and Tom Brady, then I guarantee that our students' enthusiasm for math and science would match their passion for Little League and Pop Warner.

The Big Snap

Max Tegmark | Posted 03.05.2012

Max Tegmark

How's it all going to end? Being a cosmologist, I'm not talking about our new year, but about our universe, billions of years from now. This question has gotten me worrying about what I call the Big Snap.

PHOTOS: 10 Of The Most Fascinating Thought Experiments

Posted 01.05.2012

Thought experiments are meant to illustrate a scientific or philosophical point without having to do the dirty work of an actual experiment. You m...

Einstein's Theory... of Investing

Dan Solin | Posted 03.04.2012

Dan Solin

Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Welcome to the world of investing where brokers and financial pundits start each year hoping you are as uninformed as you were last year.

The Beauty of Bees

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 02.05.2012

Dr. Reese Halter

Of the more than 1.6 million known forms of life on our home -- planet Earth, bees truly are the "golden-hair" pollinator partners that have been entrusted with sustaining life on land.

The Bomb, Intellectually Speaking

Max Lugavere | Posted 02.03.2012

Max Lugavere

I had the recent pleasure of attending TEDYouth, the first-ever TED event for young people.

Seriously, Do We Really Need Health Clubs?

John Blumenthal | Posted 01.29.2012

John Blumenthal

Even though I'm over fifty, I still groan at the vivid memory of high school gym class which, for me, was an exercise in torture.

Did An Outside Entity Create The Universe?

Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 01.14.2012

Robert Lanza, M.D.

After four decades of scientific study, it appears increasingly likely that our universe is not a closed system and that science may not be playing with a full deck.

Betting Against Einstein

Carl Pope | Posted 12.20.2011

Carl Pope

America must move into the future. The era of cheap oil, energy dependence, and "what me worry" climate science is over. The United States must join, not just the rest of the world, but the 21st century.

Sustained Incoherence

Richard Geldard | Posted 12.14.2011

Richard Geldard

Some years ago now the brilliant physicist David Bohm, who studied with Einstein, had this to say about human thought: Thought doesn't know it is doi...

The Legacy of Steve Jobs

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.06.2011

Andy Ostroy

2011-10-06-Screenshot20111006at4.46.50PM.jpg Today we mourn the man, the mind and the memory.