It never occurs to skeptics that a sense of wonder is paramount, even for scientists. Einstein insisted, in fact, that no great discovery can be made without a sense of awe before the mysteries of the universe.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
Birds dropping baguettes, terrorist plots and nuclear critics have all tried to derail the Large Hadron Collider, but if all goes according to plan it will be re-creating the Big Bang in no time.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology
The famed physicist Albert Einstein may no longer be living, but his robotic double almost seems to bring the scientist back to life. The engineers...
Robert Koehler | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
The argument: In a world held hostage by nuclear weapons, there are smaller aggregate numbers of war dead; therefore, God bless nukes. Or maybe not.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
We are connected not only by intertwined consciousness, but by a pattern that is a template for the universe itself.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business
Should the U.S. Small Business Administration be in the business of helping small-business owners procure federal contracts?
Dan Agin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
There are too few good books about the positives and negatives of research careers in science. Philip A. Schwartzkroin, a neurosurgeon who specializes in epilepsy research, has written such a book.
James M. Gentile | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
If the future of our nation is not continually renewed by young Americans well supported in their advanced scientific research, we likely will have a very dim future indeed.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.
Beth Armogida | Posted 08.26.2009 | Comedy
I saw the video clip of your passionate speech to Representative Mike Castle on YouTube right after I watched a cat do the Riverdance.
Dan Agin | Posted 08.08.2009 | Living
One of the important problems with popularizations of science is that there is not one public, there are many publics, and each public has its own formal education and interest in science.
Howard Dean | Posted 07.26.2009 | New York
I was born in New York City. I can remember riding double-decker buses on top for a nickel, and when the Third Avenue subway through Yorkville was an elevated train.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
June 20th was World Refugee Day. Here's our list of some of the most famous refugees ever. Know of other famous refugees? Leave your suggestions i...
Newsday | CHRISTINA HERNANDEZ | Posted 07.22.2009 | New York
He's sticking his tongue out in a gesture to "all of humanity." In Albert Einstein's own words, that was the message behind his playful expression, ca...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment
This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.
Dave Hill | Posted 05.24.2009 | Comedy
Success--will we ever really understand it? Probably not, but as long as we're on the topic, it wouldn't kill you to put on a pair of pants.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 07.08.2009 | Style
Lingo without linguistics can be dangerous, I knew. One of the great things about life out West is that people respect newbies. And they don't begrudge mistakes.
Lee Schneider | Posted 05.01.2009 | Living
I believe that ideas come from having a prepared mind, and yet there is that undefined something that makes me wonder if a larger consciousness comes into play.
Stefanie Michaels | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living
Airlines are making creative attempts to win international travelers loyalty. They are constantly seeking out ways to gain a leg up on the competition...
Live Science | Posted 01.07.2009 | Home
Major breakthroughs in science have historically been the province of individuals, not institutes. Galileo and Copernicus, Edison and Einstein, toilin...
AFP | Posted 12.22.2008 | Home
PARIS (AFP) - It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational ...
Gary Cohan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
Albert Einstein also said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." The McCain/Palin ticket continues just such a line of thought.
Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green
Whether influential, intriguing or simply offensive, these celebrities, politicians and pop culture icons have caught my eye for helping the planet, saving money on gas and looking sweet atop the seat.
Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
Inspired by such high-profile cyclists as Obama, Fey and Einstein, I've set to work amassing a comprehensive archive of 100 people we know, love--perhaps even despise--atop the bike.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living