The team which found that neutrinos may travel faster than light has carried out an improved version of their experiment - and confirmed the result. If confirmed by other experiments, the find could undermine one of the basic principles of modern physics. Critics of the first report in September ... Read more...
We think robots will work for us? Think again. It might be more likely we’ll be working for the robot. Among all the job takeovers robots will make in the next 15 years (by 2025 robots will take over nearly half of all U.S. jobs) get ready to have them as our supervisors. Because it’s already ... Read more...
What do you do when the love in a relationship conflicts with who you are as a being? Well, I don’t know how to answer this question but recently I have been experiencing this battle of hearts and internal battles with myself and significant other. The battle of hearts comes when a significan... Read more...
AIG has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against Bank of America over allegations of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) fraud. AIG claims that Bank of America and several of its acquisitions, including Merrill Lynch and Countrywide, of misrepresenting the quality of the mortgages that went into bundle... Read more...
Last Thursday, I wrote an article for Slate about The Anthology of Rap, officially published this week by the Yale University Press. In that piece, I pointed out the errors I'd found in reading the book's transcriptions of rap lyrics. (I also noted how tricky and difficult such transcription can b... Read more...
Nearly one in 10 hospital prescriptions contain a mistake, ranging from the minor to the potentially lethal, research has found. But the study, commissioned by the General Medical Council, found very few errors would have caused serious harm. It also found that, contrary to belief, novice doctors... Read more...