Broader Perspective

Big data and the internet continue their sweep across modern life by facilitating a new era of education, and possibly, thinking. As traditi...

Big data analysis is popping up in more contexts, and what better place in an election year than in politics. A ‘barcamp’ for campaign finan...

Delivering health care and keeping populations healthy is a key problem of the current era. Health expenditures currently comprise 17% of U....

The challenge is called out by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge as being related to the technological singularity, namely that any one fu...

In Greek philosophy, there is the notion of taking the responsibility for shaping and defining yourself as an individual. This concerned all...

The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab’s April event featured a panel discussion of Consumer 3D Printing. Consumer 3D printers have decreased substan...

Wikis are a great tool for facilitating open science through ease-of-use and transparency in the conduct of research studies. Wikis allow re...

While striving to define objective truth is a worthwhile activity, objective truth is perhaps only a small corner of the overall possibility...

Virtual worlds – there’re not dead yet!! In fact the opposite is true. Virtual worlds have passed out of the spotlight in some regards but g...

Although a definition of philosophy is hard to come by, and practitioners may be either loth to define it (sacrilegious to the field’s perva...