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We wouldn’t think of leaving the house without cleaning the body. Really, we shouldn’t think about leaving the house without cleaning the mind.
My students looked a little funny this morning. Nails were brighter, curls were bouncier, rumples were sparser and a few young men even sported ties. Today was senior portrait day, […]
From the perspective of a leader, somebody who wants to hold onto power, it’s the worst form of government because it puts you at the greatest risk of losing power.
I think you can be organized and pursue the goal of getting a job, not even a good job, just a job.
Big food, which is industrial food, big farming, which is agribusiness, and big pharma all profit from making people sicker and fatter.
We won’t be able to solve the major problems that we have without more intelligence.
A petition garnered 120,000 signatures, which is more than enough to merit a government vote, possibly before the end of this year. If it passes, it will apply to every member of the working adult population.
Companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.
The art market is a market where commodification is the purpose even at the level of museums which effectively exist by virtue of the generosity of patrons.
There are some sleazy scientists out there who sell their brains to the highest bidder. But they’re a very, very small minority.
Big Data is a phenomenon that’s impacting just about every business these days.
Researchers in Illinois have created the world’s first prosthetic controlled entirely by the user’s mind.
In addition to its humor, quality drawing, and thoughtfulness, the thing that separated the strip and its maker was the refusal to license and merchandize the work.
We should be cautious about assuming that we know the shape of the future.
“How I’ll gobble Paris up, if I’m lucky enough to go back there!” painter Fernand Léger wrote in a 1915 letter home from the front lines of World War I. […]
The nicest response to a critic who gives a product (particularly films, games, comics, etc.) a low score is fans’ insistence that the critic is wrong. Of course, many fans […]
“The more players that want to create original content and finance it,” Littlefield says, “the more exciting it is in the world of ideas.”
“People as old as 90 who actively acquire new interests that involve learning retain their ability to learn. But if we stop taxing the nucleus basalis, it begins to dry up.”
We have to take it upon ourselves, as a society, and not wait for somebody else to solve this for us.
The first serious discussion of a legal right to privacy in the United States didn’t come until the year 1890 and that was because of the invention of a technology and that technology was the Kodak camera.
Should companies have secrets? Sometimes they should, but I think companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.
Half a percent of the universe is all we see – all the stars, the dust, the galaxies, everything – half a percent. So what’s the rest?
Dear CEO The vote in Washington requiring labels for foods with GMO ingredients is coming up. You’ll lose. Even if you win the vote, you will lose the war…because […]
A new study argues that the association between science and morality is so ingrained that merely thinking about it can trigger more moral behavior.
Picking up on the urban farming trend, a Pennsylvania couple has launched a startup that allows the curious-but-clueless to rent two egg-laying hens and equipment for a single season.
The company has announced the launch of Calico, which will most likely take advantage of Google’s formidable search tools to help put more focus on aging and related diseases.
Dressing up is a life-affirming activity. It’s an anti-depressant.
We are living through a huge evolution in our understanding of habits.
Perhaps more surprising than the fact that San Francisco-based DJ Cheb i Sabbah passed away last Thursday is that he survived nearly two years longer than his initial one-month assessment […]