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It is a new world where Machiavellian’s vertical hierarchies have been complemented with horizontal webs and networks.
Mathematics is a way of formulating an idea, not an idea itself.
While the vast majority of mainstream press attention (and capital) focuses on the 1st through 3rdVerticals, some of the real paradigm shifting technologies and approaches may be in the 4th and 5th Verticals. […]
Technology extends our thought, our reach, our vision, helps us transcend our boundaries. I think that’s a message everybody can get behind.
Swiss novelist Rolf Dobelli has been making waves with a new work of nonfiction called The Art of Thinking Clearly in which he criticizes the news media for poisoning our brains with ever more novelty.
Social psychology has demonstrated that the more people think you don’t have free will, the worse they behave.
From a health standpoint there really is not one shred of evidence that genetically modified food has any impact on health other than beneficial.
A little bit of philosophy can be a dangerous thing.
I’ve always been deeply curious and interested in human behavior and also felt a close affinity with that evolutionary explanations.
Spreading luck around isn’t as easy as it sounds.
We now have three domains that are quite distinct: the sexual, the romantic, and the marriage market.
Disney Research’s Ishin-Den-Shin — Japanese for “what the mind thinks, the heart transmits” — converts recorded audio into a signal that passes from person to person through simple touch.
Our genome sequence does not determine everything that is going to happen to us throughout the rest of our lives.
Which sayings are true, and which ones just sound nice?
If you actually look at Facebook’s effect on our brains, it’s like taking a drug. The problem, according to Jonathan Harris, is that with software that makes you come back over and over again, you become the product.
Strategist and CEO Amy Jo Martin says that not only should we not fear young kids’ use of social media, we should teach them to view it as a personal branding tool for their future success.
It’s graduation season and young people everywhere are listening to speeches rife with promises of new beginnings. With one baby boomer turning 67 every seven to eight seconds, many older […]
Darwin appreciated the ways in which groups have to evolve compassionate, sympathetic, helping, altruistic behaviors, at least within those groups in order to survive and be successful, vis a vie, other groups.
For Leon Wieseltier, the corrosive effects of modern technology spell the demise of humanity as we know it. I’m not so sure.
Siri’s underlying technology is designed “to solve a different, simpler variant of the human language problem” than Watson.
An “ex-gay” Ministry President shows us all how apology is done.
Having a strategic plan is a vital aspect of any successful organization. Unfortunately, most organizations have strategic plans that are really financial plans in disguise. And the larger the organization, […]
Chris Conrad exposes the truth behind the myths and lies of hemp.
When faced with the classical risk dilemma—receive small gains now versus a big gain later—men and women have different ways of evaluating what is the best course of action.
Very often the first piece of information we have about a person is their name. It’s often the first thing you learn about someone and we form judgments about people very rapidly.
We’re in a period now where capitalism is going to have to recreate itself because that selfishness works to an extent but it does leave people behind.
Twice as many people means twice as much consumption. But it might mean three times as much innovation and we can see that throughout history.
How can a uniquely Shakespearean habit of mind can be applied to our own lives in order to help us think more creatively?
An engineer has developed a process that will produce ammonia more cleanly and possibly in enough amounts to provide an alternative energy source.