A new study from the Great Recession shows that anxiety around money is not helping us. How do we stop worrying?
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Our biases, preferences, and ideas of simplicity and elegance can get in the way. Here’s a scientific way to cut through them all. What are the rules governing reality? If you […]
It seems intuitive that the best way to interpret how others are feeling would be to both see and hear how they’re behaving. However, a new study suggests that’s dead wrong.
With every second that goes by, tens of thousands of star disappear from our reach. And it’s getting worse. It’s been nearly a century since scientists first theorized that the Universe […]
An effort is underway in the AI community to develop posthumous avatars that can ease the pain of mourning. Not everyone thinks this is a good idea.
Professional learning programs are important to any business or organization because they help to enhance your existing workforce by instilling new knowledge and skills. When it comes to creating learning […]
Representation matters. Meet five stellar women in physics who were unjustly denied their place in history. Nobel season is now over, with another year in the books of celebrating the scientists […]
New privacy tools and transparency are all part of continuing changes to the largest social network in the world.
Do we really need to spend such a mind-bogglingly huge amount of money on surveilling the world (and the American taxpayers) to find a terrorist-needle in a global-haystack?
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Over the past week, former employees at Facebook and other companies have revealed how tens of millions of users’ data has been harvested and passed along to outside parties.
What it would take to make a ‘mirror Universe’ a reality. The idea of parallel Universes has been around for over 60 years now, giving a theoretically physical existence to all […]
Exhaustion and its effects have preoccupied thinkers since classical antiquity. A look at historically specific theories of exhaustion shows a tendency to look back nostalgically to a supposedly simpler time.
The answer can give us an indication of where our universe is headed and how it might end.
His book warns us of the dangers of mass media, passivity, and how even an intelligent population can be driven to gladly choose dictatorship over freedom.
Emotional intelligence can have massive benefits for any organization, but why? How do we maximize our groups’ EQ?
Documentary offers a surprisingly simple solution to improving medical care.
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Comments. Kids love them, parents love them. But what were the best ones this week on our Facebook?
The origin of the word ‘respect’ comes from the Latin verb ‘respicere’, which means to take another look back at something or someone. Here’s how to restore respect after conflict.
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Effective business communication is not just an advantage for businesses — it’s a necessity. According to Salesforce, 86% of 1,400 surveyed corporate execs, employees, and educators attribute workplace failures to […]
How can we keep our brains in top form? Here are some powerful activities you can do immediately.
Though often used interchangeably, diversity and inclusion are two very different things. Most importantly, diversity without inclusion is mostly meaningless.
The FDA has approved the first pill with an embedded ingestible sensor that can track when, or if, a patient takes their medication.
Religious literacy can help us to ‘disagree better.’
Nietzsche had some harsh things to say about the worldview of the masses, but what did he really think?
More and more companies are in the grip of a new phenomenon: “metric fixation.” Here’s what’s wrong with it.
A new survey reveals how satisfied employees of different tech companies are with their pay and whether they’d like to leave.
This discovery may also help us develop novel drugs for Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and ADHD.
A new article published in Mother Jones shows how Cambridge Analytica positioned itself to potential clients after the election of Donald Trump.
Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging new or stronger connections with other neurons. But how, exactly, does it do that?
Can we make progress in a world in which we don’t trust our institutions?