Advertisers have long used human emotions to sell soap, cigarettes, and cars. So why not create campaigns that serve society's higher ideals and do it from within the same agencies that have long been vilified?

Sooner or later, voting will be as easy as going online and clicking for your candidate, like everything else. But in the meantime, maybe sheer convenience isn't such a necessary factor in voting.

Pussy Riot doesn't seem to be going away. Even behind bars, they are creating an international movement. This isn't just a bunch of scruffy punksters looking to get a record deal out of instant fame.

According to evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar, our meaningful social circle can't ever exceed between 100 and 230 people. How did Dunbar's number come about?

Common sense is a difficult thing to gauge, since it's a moving target, based on ever changing cultural expectations. My common sense could very well bump into your belief system.

While being able to create a black hole, or recreate the Big Bang with the Hadron Collider sounds like super fun experiments, what if we're really able to create a black hole in an underground laboratory in Switzerland?

There are as many reasons to reinvent oneself, one's career, one's place in the world, the company one works for, the country one lives in, as there are people on Earth.

If social media has accomplished one thing, its connecting people with talent, ideas, and stuff to sell with those that have the funds to send their way.

It's time to stop pretending the same dead-end solutions will solve problems in the digital age.

The sci-fi movie masterpiece <em>Blade Runner </em>turns 30 this month, and it's still ahead of where we are culturally.