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...
Posted 02.03.2012 | Women
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...
BootsnAll | Posted 01.20.2012 | Travel
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.
Oasis Collections | Posted 01.21.2012 | Travel
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.
Michael Ham | Posted 01.05.2012 | Science
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.
Dean Kamen | Posted 01.05.2012 | Science
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.
Max Tegmark | Posted 01.05.2012 | Science
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.
Posted 01.05.2012 | Science
Thought experiments are meant to illustrate a scientific or philosophical point without having to do the dirty work of an actual experiment. You m...
Dan Solin | Posted 01.03.2012 | Business
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.
Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 02.05.2012 | Green
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.
Max Lugavere | Posted 02.03.2012 | Education
I had the recent pleasure of attending TEDYouth, the first-ever TED event for young people.
John Blumenthal | Posted 01.29.2012 | Fifty
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.
Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 01.14.2012 | Religion
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.
Carl Pope | Posted 12.20.2011 | Green
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.
Richard Geldard | Posted 12.14.2011 | World
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...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.06.2011 | Business
Today we mourn the man, the mind and the memory.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.28.2011 | Technology
The recent news flash that researchers had observed a neutrino particle exceeding the speed of light did not excite the world much. If true, though, this bit of information should totally change physics as we know it.
Lisa Randall | Posted 11.25.2011 | Technology
CERN's reported violation of Einstein's theory most likely means the experimenters made a mistake. Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.
Katie Halper | Posted 11.09.2011 | Comedy
Perry and Romney have signed the National Organization for Marriage pledge, but it was undeniable that political and sexual tension were in the air between the two strapping tanned governors.
Michael Sigman | Posted 10.11.2011 | Entertainment
This "sui generis" Southern gentleman, raconteur and erstwhile child actor defies linear explication. Here are 15 semi-random items for the not-yet initiated.
Discovery News | Posted 09.25.2011 | Technology
Hong Kong physicists say they have proved that a single photon obeys Einstein's theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light -- demon...
Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 09.17.2011 | Politics
Americans should support the rarer and rarer Republican candidates that are pro-science. Nations that have strayed too far down the path of placing ideology ahead of science have come out losers, both economically and in terms of global power.
Joel Shatzky | Posted 09.14.2011 | New York
We are, indeed, turning into two nations: a small but steadily growing proportion of the population acquiring greater wealth and a much larger number moving into poverty.
Peter Baksa | Posted 09.14.2011 | Religion
Prayer is a moment where the mind is silenced and directed. We are speaking to God, to the universe, to the same energies that creates worlds from nothingness.
Elisa Stephens | Posted 09.13.2011 | San Francisco
Art is a priority for San Francisco because we've seen the result of what happens when people think outside the box, socially, intellectually, and technologically -- innovation.
Frank A. Weil | Posted 02.02.2012 | World