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Plus a bonus: perhaps the single most important achievement to all of humanity. “What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the Moon, […]
When you looked at advertisements for campaigns or projects, you would think that almost every African on the continent has HIV/AIDS, that as soon as you stepped foot there you were at risk.
Move over Willy Loman. Selling today is about servicing latent and hidden problems, an ability that research shows is common among artists.
If you have not found a partner or if you’re not sure if you want to compromise or you want to live with someone else for the rest of your life there’s just a lot of hope for you out there from the science.
This topic deserves more attention. Below you will find an [abridged] transcript of a fascinating talk given on Chinese identity by Frank Ching, an American writer and journalist. It touches […]
Adults make eye contact between 30% and 60% of the time in an average conversation, but people should be making eye contact 60% to 70% of the time to create a sense of emotional connection.
I am asking members of the new upper class to stop concentrating so much on living a glossy life and think of the ways in which they can lead a more textured life.
We can make a choice to say “I love this technology, this extension of my soul, of my being and I don’t need to be on all the time.”
Not many art stories make the cover of both TIME and Newsweek in the same week, but the revelation of Andrew Wyeth’s infamous “Helga Paintings” in 1986 caused a news […]
By the time you finish reading this short article, I hope you agree with me so much that you’ll join me on my mission against “dieting” — at least the way the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry has been pushing it on everyone for years.
No wonder we only have a couple of kids, rather than 10 or 12.
I think it would be really good if nonscientists learned enough so they could come out and make these arguments for the scientists.
Here are all of the arguments against Edward Snowden. This is why they are wrong.
We’ve seen more and more human functions be transferred to machines, to robots, to computers, we haven’t all in fact grown poorer.
If you were taught it was Christopher Columbus, you aren’t alone. But just how much we knew thousands of years ago may surprise you! “When Columbus lived, people thought that the […]
On October 15, 2013, the City Council of Cupertino, California, debated for 6 hours before finally approvingApple’s plans for a new $5 billion USD office headquarters to be built in […]
We’ve seen in many countries where they have instituted some quotas that they have been able to bring more women in and that it really has made a big difference in the quality of the decision making position
Ruchir Sharma: Always listen to what the locals have to say about the economy as opposed to global investors.
IN THE old days of the three European missions – imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism – scholars insisted on the existence of Asian “philosophies” and, naturally, they called Asian thinkers “philosophers.” […]
Gloria Feldt: I have my religious beliefs too and they tell me that using birth control is a good thing and that birth control is basic healthcare that should be part of any insurance plan.
People are not so open to new ideas that they’re running around stealing them.
Ask each person individually who benefits more from the relationship.
I think online education has the opportunity to completely blow this thing inside out where everybody has access to really great education.
The psychologist Christopher Ryan says sex scandals ought to be treated as a private matter, and that would represent a “more realistic understanding of human nature.”
California’s program is still young and isn’t the world’s first emission trading program, but here are the top four reasons we’re celebrating – and why the global community should, too.
What can be better than to be following my own personal fascination?
We won’t try something that’s hard because we think that our ability is just our ability and we were born with it and that’s it.
Software testing can only simulate user behavior and demand in this kind of large-scale technology deployment; it can’t really pattern what will happen.
Well, okay, maybe you are dumb, drunk, vapid, and horny (oh, and also, lazy and narcissistic—see Time). You’re young, after all. In case you’ve not seen them, some Colorado ads […]