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When you tell a child “You’re so smart,” you’re unwittingly encouraging a fixed mindset. 

The modern dictator needs only to become a client-state to Russia or China (or to be Russia or China), and there is nothing he can’t get away with. We members of open societies have the power to change that. All we need is the resolve.

Darwin may not have seen that a seemingly altruistic primate can also be quite disastrously aggressive. 

We live in one unified world.

One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.

People have hang-ups and blind spots and phobias and just sometimes they have a principled refusal to take something seriously. 

Women are like tourists in a world that is not quite built to be aligned with how they are by nature or how they’ve been socialized by nurture.  

There are a growing number of corporations that are governed by “absentee owners,” meaning there is “no oversight and no one making sure that corporations and management act sanely and responsibly.”

Today is a potentially big day at the U.S. Supreme Court, and that is not just because it is Justice Sotomayor’s birthday. 

Estimates are that a third of the prison population has mental illness. 

Keeping a secret is quite bad for you because it causes a lot of stress. 

There are multiple levels of “we” and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

It’s beginning to seem pretty clear that CRC is, at least in part, a bacterial disease.

The tools that philosophers use are also tools for everyday life. 

I don’t think mathematical models can do much to get us out of the mess that we’re in. 

Stress at critical periods of development can be bad for the developing brain.

If you didn’t work and you were an adult male in 1960 you were a bum and you were seen as a bum by everybody else in the neighborhood.  

Picturing success will increase your optimism and increase your confidence, which will then help you out. 

All technologies conspire to give ordinary people more information, more tools, more resources, more ways to connect with each other, more ways to influence conversations.

Gay lesbian teenagers, LGBT teenagers are lied to about what it is to be a gay or lesbian or bi or trans.

Mass manufacturing is absolutely here to stay, but 3D printing will have a subtle but significant long-term impact on the economy. 

A three-year project conducted by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds found that only one in five kids had a “realistic and achievable” connection with nature. Unsurprisingly, adults’ attitudes may be to blame.

A report suggests that by 2030, nearly 325 million people could be living in the countries expected to be the most affected by natural hazards. In response, focus should be placed on disaster prevention, not just disaster relief.

We have old genes that are well adapted to living in some previous environment that are constantly encountering new environments. 

We need to search for disconfirming evidence to correct mistakes. 

How do you get a million and a half people to read a blog post on tax policy? Obama digital wunderkind Teddy Goff has a simple mantra: don’t be lame. 

Great strategists are willing to invest in the future. They’re patient, they’re willing to make harder calls.

I assert that if you are depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.

Can computers learn the same way a children learns? Yes. We are starting to tap into the power of cognitive computing.

Particularly for people who are new to wine, the design of the label can affect both the bottle’s ability to attract attention and the perceived flavor.