Research has shown the benefits of mindfulness, but the current mindfulness craze cannot deliver on its overhyped promises.
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Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
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Executive presence training can help leaders learn how to better support their people, become more self aware, communicate effectively, and more.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
Or you might just be a Leo.
Our brains believe $10 today is more tangible than $100 next year.
Arguments are a normal and often healthy part of a relationship. It all depends on picking the right kind of arguments, though.
The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.
The story of China is the story of global economics.
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Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
Our brains did not evolve to shop on Amazon.
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
Late-night shows, developed during the “golden age” of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.
Known as primordial black holes, they could thoroughly change our Universe’s history. But the evidence is strongly against them.
Non-Western thought is vast and ancient, so why don’t some consider it philosophy?
Overwashing is bad for skin health, but many people do it anyway. One reason is that our brains intimately associate stink with disgust.
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.
A new study refutes some of the claims recently made about the value of napping.
Tips from neuroscience and psychology can make you an expert thinker.
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.