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For human-centered leadership to achieve a “tipping point,” people, productivity, and profits must be aligned.
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
The bots started as windpipe cells, yet they helped nerve cells repair and grow.
Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”
How black and white is your thinking?
Big Think interviews Angie Westbrock, CEO of Standard AI, to learn the secrets of adapting to the winds of change.
The first of these devices is already on the market — the AI-powered Ray-Bans from Meta.
Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn’t a good thing — it’s a denial of opportunity.
A new study from Finland suggests that we all process the behavior of others using the same neural networks.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Inflection points veer life in unexpected directions. While unnerving, they provide opportunities for those who can navigate them.
There’s such thing as a healthy sense of pride in oneself and one’s accomplishments.
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
4 things you should consider before launching your next global learning program.
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
To know how to protect its astronauts, NASA needs to first understand the threat.
Without authenticity, curiosity, and risk-taking we get stuck in the mud — here’s how to make space for resilient progress.
Is mindfulness really the panacea it’s touted to be, or are we glossing over some fundamental flaws?
From tribal hunts to Stonehenge and into the modern day, the peer instinct helps humans coordinate their efforts and learning.
DE&I has come under fire — but our leaders should still embed allyship deep within company culture. Here’s a plan.
Online learning has become the new normal, but it isn’t without its challenges.
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?
Well-rounded business teams can be built by distilling key insights from sporting data. Bottom line: don’t overstock on superstars.
To be successful, leaders would be wise to remember that AI isn’t a replacement for people; it exists to enhance their capabilities.
More than 200 years ago, scientists tried to figure out how bats navigate in the dark (or without eyes). This set in motion a series of events that led to the development of ultrasound as a form of psychotherapy.
“The only requisite for nonfiction is that it’s true,” says Nathan Thrall, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.”
“I think it’s about time we stop allowing every male generation bang their frontal lobe through its most developmental stages.”