And as someone who has a really terrible driving record I can't wait for autonomous cars to come out.
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As long as the stress is transient, and then taken away, that seems to be a feature that leads to better stress responses later on.
Tesco plans to install the technology at its 450 gas stations so that it can deliver customized ads -- based on age and gender -- on a nearby screen. Not surprisingly, privacy advocates are concerned.
A life well-lived is likely to serve others while satisfying our inner passions. When people get lost in their lives and careers, Sir Ken Robinson would argue, they’re usually serving one at the expense of the other.
Your greatest danger is that you’re going to be replaceable by the time you’re in your late 30s.
When you’re young you really don’t have the concept of failure.
Resilience can help your life in a general way to be more productive.
Big Think chief Economist Daniel Altman has a suggestion to end this long national nightmare: get rid of the corporate income tax.
One thing business schools do get right is about writing down and reducing things down to priorities.
The Microbial Academy of Sciences is an academy where microbes would be in a position to study the cosmos.
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.
Intelligence actually involves things like being funny, being sexy or expressing a loving sentiment, maybe in a poem or in a musical piece.
Trying to support as many people as possible made me a much more effective negotiator.
You can learn powerful habits of mind from the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
I had found a new way to express myself, and it was with words.
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 […]
I really do believe that America has this weight problem, obesity issues and we have all these diseases that we get, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases that are primarily lifestyle diseases.
Winston Churchill's career reveals that he was pretty consistently wrong on issue after issue, place after place, time after time, and he was wrong for the same reasons he was right in May of 1940.
You need to take the skills you have retired and become extremely good at them.
You have to love the process of starting from scratch.
Move over Willy Loman. Selling today is about servicing latent and hidden problems, an ability that research shows is common among artists.
I think if you’re the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it’s in how you interact with the world.
College is a risky investment, but you may be able to get a lot more out of living as a college graduate than if you didn’t have a college degree.
It is just an extremely satisfying and wondrous moment when you think you’ve unlocked a secret of nature.
The parents have to go well outside of their comfort zone.
Plants are able to perform photosynthesis and therefore, plants are in a position to enjoy cinematography, to enjoy films since the essence of film is light.
I think that the United States is vulnerable for many reasons.
Thinking big involves taking risks, and taking risks requires a certain openness to failure. I believe it is an imperative to take such risks today because our personal welfare is […]
Think of consciousness as essentially the company president that has to arbitrate all the different mechanisms.