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A marketing professional decided to think creatively and create a resume-bot. It helped him land 14 interviews and 11 job offers.
A team of scientists has warned that marketers seek to advertise in our dreams. Will our sleep be commercialized against our wishes?
Due to deteriorating health, all Beethoven left behind for his final symphony were some musical sketches.
Just as storylines make sense only when you have the context of the beginning and the end, listeners need to understand the impetus for why the album was even made.
Dr. Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, who is questioning the very nature of life and how we’re attempting to find it elsewhere.
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Flow occurs when a task’s challenge is balanced with one’s skill.
The NFL icon talks overcoming a difficult childhood and what’s needed to succeed in a world where the cards are stacked against you.
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He co-created one of TV’s funniest shows. He still felt like a failure in his 30s. This is comedian Neal Brennan’s story about conquering toxic self-talk.
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If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self.”
We may be the last generation born not knowing if we are alone in the Universe.
Why does hearing sad music feel so good?
Biology plays an important role in emotional reactions, but neuroscientist Kristen A. Lindquist posits that our culture is just as influential.
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Undiagnosed brain disease or divine inspiration? The origins of the French composer’s most provocative composition remain up for debate.
Without Benjamin List and David MacMillan, chemists would still be using metals and enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions.
Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.
It can write 5-minute songs based on short text prompts.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.
Step back from the AI maelstrom and explore Lem’s “Summa Technologiae” for a detached look at technology’s role in human evolution.
A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
Nike athlete and famed Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin shares how she turned her pain into purpose.
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If a court needs to know if two trademarks look too similar to each other, perhaps the jury should be given a brain scan.
Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.
In a world without “bullshit jobs,” we would have more hours available to us to learn new skills and to unleash our creative side.
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