Swami Vivekananda Jayanti is celebrated on January 12th annually. National Youth Day, honoring Vivekananda, is celebrated on January 12th. Govt. of India started this tradition in 1984 to celebrate ...

There is a tendency to imagine genius as smooth and uninterrupted. As if the great thinkers moved from one insight to the next without pause. Albert Einstein does not quite fit that picture. For all ...

The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

At a birthday party for Elon Musk in northern California wine country, late at night after cocktails, he and longtime friend Larry Page fell into an argument about the safety of artificial ...

Australia's largest silver mine might not be underground. The country's discarded solar panels contain a lode of the precious metal that experts at Macquarie University said they can harvest with a ...

Of all the design disciplines, graphic designers might be the most insecure. The introduction of any new technology can feel like a threat to the field’s existence. Think of desktop publishing in the ...

In the world of fat activism, the “O-words”—overweight and obesity—are expressly verboten. That’s because advocates and “fat studies” scholars want to destigmatize and accommodate fatness—their ...

Last week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will get more homeless people off the streets. The order has some good parts to it, including additional support for mental health ...

Health plans have been pouring resources into data analytics for years. They’ve mapped chronic disease trends, pored over prescription data, and chased cost-savings across every corner of the ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

Jevin West receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the Knight Foundation, and others. The full list of funders and affiliated organizations can be ...

Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...