Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky discusses the deeply-rooted phenomenon of dividing the world between us and them. He also analyses how we categorize thems, and proposes some strategies to overcome this mentality. | learn more
Follow the link and watch the video – totally worth it. “The plug-in sensor package they’ve developed monitors multiple phenomena in a room, including things such as sounds, vibration, light, heat, electromagnetic noise and temperature. With help from machine learning […]
Though mostly lost to history, the public education system has often been influenced by one of its biggest sponsors – the industrialists. Today, the new industrialists (namely Silicon Valley billionaires) continue to spend money trying to alter the way children […]
“The takeaway: when you are on an exponential curve the trajectory looking forward is the same at any point on the curve.” | learn more
This article adds context and busts myths about the famed Tulip bubble of the 1600s, then ties it back to Cryptocurrencies. | learn more
“What best distinguishes our species is an ability that scientists are just beginning to appreciate: We contemplate the future. Our singular foresight created civilization and sustains society. It usually lifts our spirits, but it’s also the source of most depression […]
UK-based Tokamak energy’s fusion reactor has reached plasma temperatures in its core for the first time. It’s on track to produce temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius by 2018, and its CEO “says to expect fusion energy ‘in years, not […]
Professors from Princeton University and UW-Madison use the latest genetic evidence to clarify that racial divides as we know them are completely BS. “The genetic distance between East Asians and Europeans is shorter than the divergence between Hazda in north-central […]
The Human Genome Project was a huge win for science. It’s outcome: we are now able to read our DNA. Next up on the docket is writing our DNA. Dr. Jef Boeke is the director of the Institute for Systems Genetics […]
Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic, writes a very interesting post explaining how to convince skeptics that climate change is a problem. While he believes in climate change, he makes a bunch of valid points about how scientists have […]