You're cruising down the highway when all of a sudden endless rows of brake lights appear ahead. There's no accident, no stoplight, no change in speed limit, or narrowing of the road. So why is there so much traffic? It's due to a phenomenon called a pha
I did it because I fell in love with the music and I wanted to share it with as many people as possible. It started a couple of years ago. I was sitting at home on the couch with the flu and browsing the Interne...
So I’ll start with mobility. Insects move around amazingly well. This video is from UC Berkeley. It shows a cockroach moving over incredibly rough terrain without tipping over, and it’s able to do this because its legs ar...
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moments that make your life what it is will have happened by your mid-30s. People who are over 40, don't panic. This crowd is going to be fine, I think. We know that the first 10 years of a career has an exponential impact on how much money you're going to earn. We know ...
One theory is that these physical changesare regulated byanembryonicstructurecalledtheneuralcrest. It helps determine how some ofa developingembryo’scellsdifferentiateand where they go.Delayingorinhibitingthe arrival of these cells in certain areas of the body can result in anunderdevelopmentof thepituit...
Those intel services have command hierarchies, and those hierarchies apparently extend over the Director, and lead up to one central command which has penetrated and coopted all of the intelligence services. And whoever that is, at the top, the regular American, the honest American cop, the ...
This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse through all the posts here.One evening, I called my sons to come to eat — and got no response.True confession: In anger, I...
Inevitably, everything we go through in life really is a step to help us get to a better place. It’s hard to see it this way. But we have to, because this study helps us realize we’re prone to catastrophizing. That alone should be enough to zoom backward in your brain and go,...
Elon dreamed up a little thing called PayPal. His Tesla Motors and SolarCity companies are making a clean, renewable-energy future a reality…his SpaceX [is] reopening space for exploration…it’s a paradox that Elon is working to improve our planet at the same time he’s building spacecraf...