Empty your inbox, fast – With an empty inbox, you know everything is under control. No nasty surprises. Never forget to do anything – Turn your emails into tasks…

For a while I’ve been considering the costs of putting together large numbers of people.  The cost scales roughly linearly, but sometimes it’s difficult to remember that.  Putting…

“Everyone should take the flu seriously and get the vaccine,” says van Amerongen. “The shots are a safe, inexpensive way to prevent getting sick.” New flu vaccine is…

On Sunday, September 29, we’re running a special one-day workshop geared to programmers. From 10am-7pm you’ll be learning some of the techniques that our alumni in your field…

Researchers found that in addition to the benefits of recirculation settings, exposures are lower in newer cars, at slower speeds and on arterial roads, where pollutant concentrations are…

Shadow is an innovative alarm clock that helps you record and remember your dreams. New dream journaling app is about to launch. See on discovershadow.com

Boomerang for Gmail is a plugin for Firefox and Chrome that lets you schedule sending and receiving emails, helping you reach Inbox Zen. This is how I stop…

Let’s quickly figure out if you, the reader, are a Gen Y Protagonist & Special Yuppie.  The Gen Y part is easy—you have to have been born sometime…

The most significant results from this project so far are: We came up with a preliminary list of 6 seemingly-important ways in which a historical case could be…

There has been much speculation about the future of humanity in the face of super-humanly intelligent machines. Most of the dystopian scenarios seem to be driven by plain…

The winner of the 2013 unorthodox prize is: Evidence Aid An effort to provide resources to decision-makers and responders before, during, and after disasters and other humanitarian emergencies….