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In order to be successful, you need to do more than just design a good product. You need to be persuasive.

In the video below, Justin Solonynka, a teacher at the Abington Friends School in Jenkintown, PA, uses a game he bought for his two-year-old daughter to teach his 7th grade class about permutations and combinations.

“DOMA’s principal effect is to identify and make unequal a subset of state-sanctioned marriages,” wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act.  

The image above is an artist’s impression of what it might look like to live on the exoplanet Gliese 667Cd, one of three super-Earths discovered in the habitable zone of the nearby star Gliese 667C. 

While the solution to sustainable population growth is elusive, there are few illustrations that present this global challenge in such clear terms as this video.

Why do religious people tend to be regarded as philanthropists while secular humanists are regarded as cruelly indifferent?

Today is a potentially big day at the U.S. Supreme Court, and that is not just because it is Justice Sotomayor’s birthday. 

Computer-generated models published in the journal eLife demonstrated how plants might regulate the rate at which they consume starch that they will need once the sun goes down. 

By facilitating, instead of being defensive, Stephen Miles says you’ll end up in the higher place and you will be able to maintain your point of view.

The White House is now bound to issue an official response to a petition on its We the People website after a request to pardon former NSA contractor Edward Snowden surpassed 100,000 signatures within the first month of its posting. 

Nelson Mandela was never in prison. Or so he told Peter Guber and a group of American businessmen. 

NYU graduate student Josh Begley set out to document all U.S. drone strikes, a project that he thought might take 10 minutes. In the video below, he explains how, 5 months later, his project is still unfinished.

How “super” was your view of the Supermoon?

This collage, called “Love and Only Love” is made from recycled bits of hate speech.

Researchers at Harvard and the University of Chicago used “electrochemically active ink” and a custom 3D printer to print microbatteries smaller than a single grain of sand. 

A group created by the FAA is expected to recommend relaxing the ban on the use of electronic devices during takeoffs and landings.

There are a growing number of corporations that are governed by “absentee owners,” meaning there is “no oversight and no one making sure that corporations and management act sanely and responsibly.”

Tonight is the closest the Moon will be to us all year, so it will appear bigger and brighter than usual. So we are hoping for clear skies for the […]

The European Space Agency and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope produced this image of two galaxies known as Arp 142 that strongly resembles a penguin guarding an egg.

Can computers learn the same way a children learns? Yes. We are starting to tap into the power of cognitive computing.

The idea that “true happiness” is of a uniformly high emotional pitch, and our tendency to expect it from external things ironically ends up causing us a great deal of suffering. 

According to Singapore’s National Environment Agency, the city’s three-hour Pollutant Standards Index rose to an all-time high of 371. 

There is an economic imperative to have higher engagement at work, so why has it not changed?

Is this overkill: $30 billion for 40,000 border agents, 700 miles of fencing and aerial drones to guard the U.S.-Mexico border.

You can zoom in to the image and view an area of the Red Planet’s Gale Crater in unprecedented detail. 

Monsanto executive Robert T. Fraley was awarded The World Food Prize for his work in developing genetically modified crops. 

Eric Swalwell is believed to be the first Congressman to vine a vote. 

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics have developed goggles that jam facial recognition systems. 

Technology companies can create enormous value, but what about jobs? 

Until the late 20th century, Western approaches to mental well-being focused mainly on treatments directly affecting brain function (via surgery, electric shock or pharmaceuticals, for example) or insight-oriented psychotherapy intended […]