The breakup is focused on sensitive matters now considered national-security issues, including semiconductors, food and energy

Honeybees have never been in danger of extinction. But scientists are finding that they can accelerate the demise of native bee populations.

It’s time we all got off our asses, left the house, and had fun,’ Mark Cuban said in a statement.

The Stoic philosopher argued that most of life is outside our control — but the little we do control defines who we are.

DM This morning I've water on my mind.  Not literally, but in the realm of hydrology (and perhap beyond). I've a modest understanding of Bejan's Constructal Law (CL), ...at least in a two dimensional context. Today I'm pondering it in a three dimensional context, both in contexts of evaporation and absorption.  Are CL phenomena taking place as "currents" of evaporation into the air around and above us from bodies of water (creeks, springs, brooks, rivers, lakes and oceans)?

In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.

The world’s largest private employer refused to compromise on profits. That paid off for workers.

A study of centuries of entrepreneurs shows how important collaboration and mutually reinforcing actions are to innovation.

DM Please offer your estimated perspectives of a diverse sampling of thinkers regarding: 1) Pantakinesis'™ 3 pillars for a more optimal basis of human cognition, 2) The Universal Holophren™ to unify and understand sentience/agency, 3)The Realm of the Present-Now™(RPN) of on-going creation, 4) 4Chairs.Life™ communities of inquiry and hubris reduction, 5) The rigor, effort (and pehaps eudaimonia) of Enjoying Ignorance™ via UII, 6) Hubris as addiction.   The thinkers are: A. Ein

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What if you really did live every day as if it were your last? That was Brian’s plan.

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With a research focus of human-centred computing, Sabrina Caldwell believes that whatever our systems do, they should support humans.

The Founders worried that the U.S. could be undermined by a powerful standing army. Civilians needed to be in control.

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For years, my mother and father hid painful truths about their young lives. After digging into their pasts, I discovered that some secrets are meant to protect.