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When Fast Company came out with its 96 lessons for 2013 from leaders across the business spectrum, I expected to find a stereotypical list of lifestyle changes and recommendations for […]
Influenced by a study showing that “range anxiety” was a big barrier between consumers and electric cars, the German automaker decided to make sharing of a traditional car available for long trips.
Trying to support as many people as possible made me a much more effective negotiator.
We need to step back and have a morally robust debate about where markets belong and where they don’t.
Some unconvincing reasons not to philosophize.
Someone might say—and libertarians skeptics often do—that classes in philosophy and literature are given a quite an arbitrarily inflated value by according them credit. Do away with the credit system […]
I think one of the keys to success is being quick to respond and that’s been a truism in business for a very, very long time. Opportunities don’t last forever […]
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
The Microbial Academy of Sciences is an academy where microbes would be in a position to study the cosmos.
This is the basis of what we call creativity: not a deus ex machina scrawling on a tabula rasa, but the mind’s constant search for interesting new ways of grouping the data we’re constantly taking in.
The widely-read science news site, Popular Science, recently decided to remove comment sections almost completely – save for a minority of articles. Online content director, Susan Labarre, explains: “Comments can […]
The current research that is most exciting is aimed toward understanding how the brain looks now at the connectivity between specific areas.
Whatever your position on ADHD, the psychological research is clear on one thing: focus and self-control are essential life skills that translate into just about any definition of success you can come up with.
A University of Toronto study showed that people who read literary fiction have less need for “cognitive closure,” allowing for more creative and sophisticated thinking.
As an artist I’m more excited then scared about how it’s going to affect the business model or my bottom line.
The country is the world’s largest polluter, but it is cleaning up faster than anyone else.
Judah Folkman, the cancer researcher, is probably the most – one of the two or three most inspiring human beings I’ve ever met. I only spent two or three hours […]
“Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen,” remarks the central character, Maxine Tarnow, of Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, Bleeding Edge. “You can never have too much.” Pynchon seasons his latest epic […]
We live in a country so cool you can take the flag and burn it on stage in Vegas.
Careers. Paychecks. Horrible bosses. If you want a roof over your head, or to make a lasting and meaningful contribution to the world, then work will consume your life. Doesn’t […]
Technology has a scarcity-liberating capability. It takes that which is scarce and can make it abundant.
First instituted over 60 years ago to help care for war orphans, the schools eventually began to attract a more moneyed clientele. Today, supporters say they promote independence, while critics say they leave some kids feeling abandoned.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Bill Nye’s viral Big Think video continues to spread the thoughts of an inspirational man.
I decided that I would attempt to scientifically figure out where on the phylogenetic tree, which is the master map of all the species on earth, where you might put God.