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Good versus Evil will always be the stock and trade of storytelling, especially in comic books. The skill of separating good guys from bad comes early to readers, with the […]
The trust deficit is the fact that emerging nations have not been recognized for their contributions to the global economy and don’t have a voice.
For the first time ever we have seen an equal balance of men and women on a NASA program. You could say that this new development is one big leap for women.
71 percent of employers choose emotional intelligence over IQ.
A few weeks ago Mayor of London Boris Johnson said some questionable things about IQ tests and the benefits of greed, income inequality and shaking boxes of cornflakes. Dorothy Bishop wrote an […]
Artists have an implicit understanding of a universal biological principle: “people have limited attentional resources.”
The Sun — like nearly all stars — burns bright through its nuclear reactions, sending light, heat and energy out into the Universe over a timespan of billions of years. But how? “The sun is […]
Heavy multitaskers become worse at the very thing that they should be very good at.
Lincoln’s emotional awareness, that kind of explicit, reflective, conversation with himself is how he used all the adverse classrooms, from his mother’s death when he was nine to all those lost elections, to suicidal depressions.
The right to have an active sex life unencumbered by unintended pregnancy is a healthcare issue, but it is so much more than that as well.
Conservative NYT columnist Ross Douthat explores the next stage of creeping—and sometimes creepy—American libertarianism. We Americans are still becoming less Puritanical, if by Puritanical we remain a combination of religious […]
Daniel Dennett, one of the best-known living philosophers and a professor at Tufts University, feels it’s time to unmask the philosopher’s art and make thought experimentation accessible to a wider audience.
What do we know about the biblical character Goliath? “He was tall and maybe he didn’t see so well; even WebMD wouldn’t be so bold as to diagnose with no more than that.”
One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.
The mechanism for changing your mindset through messaging is the same as for changing a physical behavior: a targeted and limited resolution practiced relentlessly until it becomes automatic.
A secondary school in Hangzhou is one of several throughout China that have implemented rules designed to keep teens’ focus on the books and off each other. They have been met with outrage from social media users.
We Earthlings have lots of growing up to do before we reach the shimmering standard of equality set by Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets.
If I help you get more powerful it doesn’t mean there is less power for me.
In essence what Innocentive does is it provides a platform where you can post a really challenging problem and offer a reward to anybody who can come and provide a solution.
We ultimately need to change the global conversation from one of people complaining about problems to a mindset of solving them.
If we scaled the entire Universe’s history from the Big Bang until now to be “one Universe year,” what would our future look like? “The way to love anything is to […]
People often conflate the conditions of happiness with material wellbeing. There’s lots of evidence that there’s no connection at all.
Kas Thomas: The evidence is substantial enough that people should start thinking about taking substantial amounts of vitamin D as prophylaxis against cancers of all kinds.
You can achieve mastery in more than one field. What would be interesting to see is could a musician also master baseball?
Braving arctic temperatures and police violence, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been joining together from across the country to demonstrate in Kyiv’s Maidan Square. They are fighting to keep […]
No matter what industry you’re in, your company can’t survive without technology. From smart phones and tablets to mobile apps and cloud-based technology, there’s a plethora of technological advancements to […]
In science, and genomics in particular, the difference between what we know and what we don’t is enormous. At this point, we’re still figuring out how much we don’t know.
We will be able to enhance the natural sensory capabilities that humans have, and I think this is where technology and the brain have a very fertile meeting ground.
Thinking that leadership as binary is a very big mistake.