Stephen Heintz is an American nonprofit executive and public policy expert. Since 02001, he has served as president of the ...

Sara Imari Walker leads one of the largest international theory groups in origins of life and astrobiology. Walker and her team's key areas of research are in developing new approaches to the problem ...

Sara Imari Walker leads one of the largest international theory groups in origins of life and astrobiology. Walker and her ...

The Long Now Foundation presented the North American Premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings for 3 days at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Friday and Saturday evening were ...

I worked in the garden this morning. Put my hands in the dirt, wanting to harvest. But I’m holding off. Ticking down the days or hours until the transmission from Alsafi arrives. When it comes, I’ll ...

READ Andrew Dana Hudson's companion piece to this essay, "The Weather Out There," a work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that ...

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is director for the Laboratory of Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. David Eagleman may be ...

The war against computer freedom will just keep escalating, Doctorow contends. The copyright wars, net neutrality, and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) were early samples of what is to come. Victories in ...

The Long Now was founded in 01996 to develop the Clock and Library Projects and to become a long lasting cultural institution. You can read more about the Long Now on our About page and about our ...

One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, ...

Boroditsky is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. She has received a NSF CAREER award, was named a Searle Scholar, and ...