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As a part of the year-long Technology Horizons Program research task, When Everything is Progammable: Life in a Conmputational Age, the research team...
A court in Italy has shortened the prison sentence of a convicted murderer due to the prisoner's heightened genetic predisposition for violence,...
Earlier in the week, I was trying to pass along a research article to a colleague and inadvertently sent her a recipe for home-brewed...
Certain genetic mutations can significantly contribute to the amount of credit card debt a person holds, according to a new study by Jan-Emmanuel...
The last decade has been witness to the rise of the geeks. What began as a glorification of tech entrepreneurs making it big from the rise of the IT...
Since joining IFTF I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about how forecasting can be used in development work. I have a lot of faith in the...
A new training program at Beth Israel Deaconness aims to teach medical students about genetics through fairly nontraditional means: Ask medical...
Consumer electronics company Phillips has recently released a couple new products that integrate self-tracking and biofeedback into the design in...
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Too wired to go to sleep after downing an energy drink? There's a solution for that--anti-energy drinks--and they represent a fascinating, and...
This morning, Mayor Mike Bloomberg unveiled New York City's long-awaited Big Apps contest. Big Apps seeks to promote the Internet industry in the Big...
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In 1980, cognitive linguist George Lakoff and philosopher Mark Johnson described the notion of the embodied metaphor in their landmark book, Metaphors...
A group of German researchers have developed a nasal spray that appears to improve memory. The spray, derived from a chemical from the body's immune...
Stories of Health is making the country's current debate around healthcare reform personal. The website features dozens of video interviews with...
"Smoking can kill you"--it's an old message, but appears as one of several new blunt warning labels on packs of cigarettes along with other much more...