Heroes are ordinary people who do extraordinary things. And by overcoming the ordinary, they allow the rest of us to live vicariously through them. Because we all, somewhere deep inside, believe that we’re capable of it too. And to see it…
In a 45-minute video that Warren Buffett showed thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders this weekend, one investor recounted his worst nightmare: a headline reading “Buffett Kicks Bucket”. Concern over how long the 92-year-old…
Researchers found strikingly similar signals between the brain and artificial neural networks. The blue line is brain wave when humans listen to a vowel. Red is the…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Being flexible and learning to adapt when the world changes is something you practice every…
For a few hours on a sweltering April evening, the crowd gathered at 1AQ in Delhi immersed itself in the observation and celebration of the Capital’s rich urban ecosystem. On the final day of its three-city concert tour, the Echoes of Earth…
Researchers have designed a low-cost, energy-efficient robotic hand that can grasp a range of objects—and not drop them–using just the movement of its wrist and the…
Lil Dicky’s up to his old tricks in the third season of “Dave” but this time – dare we say it – he’s a bit vulnerable.Now on tour (with friends like GaTa), he’s encountering parts of the United States that aren’t so…
Physicists have developed a dynamical model of animal behavior that may explain some mysteries surrounding associative learning going back to Pavlov's dogs. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published the findings,…