TED Tuesday: Wireless electricity
Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers...
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Universe in your head
“Everyone creates their own reality.” “Thoughts become things.” “Observer collapses the wave-function merely by observing.”...
TED Tuesday: String theory
Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in...
TED Tuesday: Habits of happiness
What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu...
Diving into history
Archaeology is a non-glamorous branch of science. It is a convergence of many different physical...
9 types of intelligence
[Image source] When we talk about someone intelligent, we usually mean it in a way...
TED Tuesday: Aquatic ape theory
Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans...
TED Tuesday: The illusion of consciousness?
Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don’t we understand our own...
TED Tuesday: Engineering and evolution
Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills — but, as Robert Full notes, many...
Sunday Spotlight: Ancient scripts
[Image source: AncientScripts.com] While there are numerous good resources available on the Internet to the...