Data-driven solutions aren’t going anywhere, but the public’s perception of big data’s value is bound to buckle beneath the weight of unrealistic expectations.
All Articles
Ever feel powerless to help a cause you believe in because its troubles are a great distance away? Just because you’re far from the Brazilian rainforest or the polar ice caps or Mt. Everest doesn’t mean you can’t play an important role in protecting those places.
The Tesla CEO’s tweets are capable of generating hashtags, memes, and even temporary spikes in the price of company shares.
Automation is on the rise in areas previously regarded as beyond the reach of machines.
Redesigning your office space can measurably improve morale as well as the flow of creative ideas, but it doesn’t have to cost a fortune.
Your IQ wasn’t set at birth. Turns out, intelligence is quite malleable. Genes play a role in influencing your intelligence, but not as much as your upbringing.
“The mathematician’s best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.”
Lightning: it isn’t just for stormclouds. “If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can […]
Letting employees decorate their workspaces plays an important role in building relationships within the company — without them there aren’t any icebreakers.
LifePaint is motivated by a grim statistic — every year in the UK over 19,000 cyclists are involved in accidents.
Online learning has set the stage for the start of democratized education, but some argue that total equality is still a long way off.
If you ever loved something most people didn’t understand, you’ll get it. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a […]
When should you take time to brainstorm? When you’re fatigued. The creative spark tends to hit when your brain is tired and unable to filter those weird ideas.
Nonconformists have a certain allure that attract both men and women, according to a recent study, but it has its limits.
Clickbait and viral content may be fascinating or annoying depending on your perspective as an e-consumer, but to internet researchers the phenomenon is the stuff of scientific wonder.
Personal and professional growth should not be treated as a chore. Instead, derive joy from your betterment efforts by treating them as play.
Could a strong enough tether save you? Or is your fate inevitable? “Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”–Alfred A. Montapert Everyone is free to […]
Like L. Ron Hubbard knew, the veneer of celebrity casts such a bright light that the details are obscured. Perhaps that’s why we call them “stars.” The closer you get, the harder to observe the shadows being cast.
Research suggests that cold showers are an effective way of boosting the circulation system while also offering mood-lifting benefits on the side.
“Envy is a really stupid sin because it’s the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There’s a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you […]
The United Nations is expected to adopt the World Bank’s goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. Whether that goal is feasible depends on just how many resources one expects will be put to use in the effort.
Sir Richard Francis Burton, famed 19th century explorer, on world religions: “The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”
Eliminating the estate tax makes no sense in a meritocratic system, yet most Americans are against the so-called “death tax.” The reasons why range from the hypocritical to the woefully ignorant.
“Exposure” and “experience” are rarely worth uncompensated labor.
Procrastinators should watch themselves; according to a recent study, putting off today what you could do tomorrow may have ties to heart disease.
The more education people have, the more ignorant they may be. Ignoring our ignorance and assuming we know much more than we actually do seems to be a universal human tendency.
Don’t just try to give your child the right answers. Lead them to smart conclusions by offering thought-out, open-ended questions.
The Universe we see isn’t exactly the Universe that is. How do we translate? “On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in […]
New word tools can sometimes avoid old confusions. Let’s use “praxotype,” “cognotype,” and “technomorphic” to see human nature more accurately. Especially to see that we’re the least genetically constrained species ever.
Modern technology has provided us with a seamless way of life, but we’ve also become accustomed to taking shortcuts.