Jul 11 Ray Kurzweil's Immortality Cocktail; And a Student Loan Skeptic EmbedVideo(3861, 482, 304); Wednesday we feature the second of our interview outtakes with inventor/author/futurist Ray Kurzweil. (Tuesday's installment: the melding of man and machine.) In our broadcast story, which debuted on Making Sen$e Monday, Kurzweil explained… Continue reading
Jul 10 Watch Russian Blackouts, Neutrality and Trusting Wikipedia Hari interviews Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on today's blackouts in Russia, trusting crowd-sourced information and attracting more women to the Wikipedia community. Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch As Humans and Computers Merge ... Immortality? As Humans and Computers Merge... Immortality?… Continue watching
Jul 10 Buying Gold and Futurist Ray Kurzweil on Melding of Man and Machine EmbedVideo(3851, 620, 386); Author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has been a key voice in our occasional series on the future of technology. The latest installment on the advent of immortality debuted here on Making Sen$e July… Continue reading
Jul 09 10 Questions for Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales By News Desk Updated July 10 | When Wikipedia formally launched on Jan. 15, 2001, creators Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger hoped to create over 100,000 articles. Today, Wikipedia has more than 22 million articles in over 285 languages. In the 11 years… Continue reading
Jul 06 Were More Than 3,000 Heat Records Actually Set in June? Here at the NewsHour, the record heat has hit close to home. Our managing editor Tom Kennedy, for example, spent six of the last nine days of 95-degree-plus heat without power. The thermostat peaked at 90 degrees inside his Maryland… Continue reading
Jul 06 The Garden of Our Neglect: How Humans Shape the Evolution of Other Species Over time, fish have evolved the ability to reproduce at smaller sizes. Photo by Boogies with Fish via Flickr. For the vast majority of the history of our kind we were in some ways no more sophisticated… Continue reading
Jul 04 Watch What the 'Rock Star' Discovery of the Higgs Boson Means for Science What the 'Rock Star' Discovery of the Higgs Boson Means for Science… Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch Physicists Discover Clear Evidence of Elusive Higgs Boson Scientists announced on Wednesday they have evidence of the much sought-after Higgs boson, a subatomic particle thought to endow all other particles -- and by extension all matter in the universe -- with mass. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News… Continue watching
Jul 04 Before and After Satellite Images Show Storm Effects NASA Earth Observatory released satellite images that show the power outages in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area that occurred as a result of a rare, fast-moving "derecho" thunderstorm system on Friday, June 29th. These images were taken with the day/night… Continue reading