Philosophy, Thoughts and Society

Kids who were better at reading and math at age seven ended up in a higher socioeconomic class age 42, regardless of what other advantages they had.

若你們在意金融世界的發展，在美國佔了七成買賣的高頻交易已實質地改變我們的城市和地理環境。 ...

Just now I attended an event organized by the Club of Amsterdam ("Shaping Your Future in the Knowledge Society") about the Future of Digital Identity at Info.nl. After getting a badge and being pho...

Jane Austen was a seminal thinker in the as-yet-unnamed science of game theory, the author Michael Chwe maintains in his new book.

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, founder/CEO of CareerCup, and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume: Allow me to draw a picture.

Shodan is an Internet search engine capable of finding just about every connected thing imaginable.

Looking to hire for creativity? Research says you should look for these traits (but, be warned, not all of them make someone easy to work with).

Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan.

In January, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation released a new animation, focusing on the role of new business models in the transition to a regenerative circular economy.

The U.S. Census is one of the very few chances the U.S. gets to analyze itself. It's better than nothing. Here, it analyzes the current state of education.

Why some of the best writing is to be found on the internet, and what I’ve learnt from reading it every day, by Robert Cottrell, editor of the Browser

Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms.

Everyone knows that the Internet has changed how businesses operate, governments function, and people live. But a new, less visible technological trend is proving just as transformative: big data.

It's right up there with food, sex and drugs when its comes to stirring up pleasure responses in our brains.

Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games, and hours of music practice create happy kids? And what happens when they fight back? An exclusive excerpt from Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

At the end of her rope with four young kids, a mother turns to an unlikely adviser—and learns how hardheaded rule can secure stability and happiness in the home.

For years, China claimed to hold an estimated 50000 rivers within its borders. Now, more than half of them have abruptly vanished.

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"The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in

E.O. Wilson shares a secret: Discoveries emerge from ideas, not number-crunching.

A welcome consequence of the digitalization of our lives and media is the creation of streams of data that weren't previously accessible. One of those is the book passages most highlighted by users of Amazon.com's Kindle e-reader software.