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Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.
In an age of high quit rates, struggling low-wage employees, and tone-deaf leadership, the call for “good jobs” makes great sense.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity.
Godfrey Hounsfield’s early life did not suggest that he would accomplish much at all.
The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe.
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
What responsibility do social media companies like Twitter have to free speech? It depends on whether they are “landlords” or “publishers.”
In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
The answer may depend on your lifestyle.
Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.
Philosopher Lee McIntyre discusses the dangers of disinformation, how such falsehoods spread, and what we can do about it.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
You can’t spot a liar just by looking — but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.
GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.