“Star Trek” reference aside: Some universities are adding a fifth year to their undergraduate engineering curriculum in order to give students time to catch up on core skills. It’s a concept athletics departments call “redshirting.”
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Strategist and CEO Amy Jo Martin says that not only should we not fear young kids’ use of social media, we should teach them to view it as a personal branding tool for their future success.
“When people have problems exercising self-control, restricting their choices can, in some cases, leave them more freedom to choose.”
So America, let me repeat, is more than ever a meritocracy defined by productivity. Now, that’s not all we are. And it’s far from bad news that we’ve gotten over […]
Too often, readers finish popular books on decision making with the false conviction that they will decide better.
Francesca Gino describes how our plans get sidetracked when we are implementing them because “we are too confident in our own abilities.”
What really matters in an art education? Do we teach every child to paint or sculpt? Do we school them in names and dates and places? Or do we somehow […]
In the spirit of maintaining an open mind, and in an attempt to purge myself of past prejudices, I will be re-reading The Great Gatsby this weekend.
A small but growing number, mostly women, are entering cohousing arrangements that provide social interaction while still encouraging independence.
A proposed People’s Terms of Service Contract would provide a weapon against the often opaque and non-negotiable contracts designed to protect corporations at the expense of users.
Imagine you have a friend who, like many high-achieving people, has a goal. In the service of that goal, your friend eats very little and ends up looking like skin […]
When you have a very rigid society without social mobility the underachieving kids of overachieving parents get a privileged run and get helped into colleges they shouldn’t really be getting into.
Complex systems can fall apart really quickly if they tip over the edge of chaos.
I think that we’re just at the very, very beginning of watching the implications of being ubiquitously connected to everybody on the planet and what you can do with that.
I think that it’s great to inspire new generations of thinkers; it’s terrible to create new authority.
Nicholas Negroponte famously called the Media Lab a place full of answers looking for questions.
One of the beautiful things about the Internet is that everybody has a voice. And one of the terrible things about the Internet is that everybody has a voice.
We’re bopping around like little birds on a wire looking at anything that pops up.
Maybe we’re not going to demonize the poor or the guy who lost his house as much as we might have 15 years ago.
Thankfully, several women’s organizations have started a campaign to have advertisers pull their dollars from Facebook until it gets over its misogyny and rape love. There’s a link to some […]
A luxury apartment building is now under construction in Taiwan, and its design was inspired by the double helix of the DNA molecule.
Daniel Dennett has posted a fantastic set of “seven tools for thinking” in an article in the Guardian that has gone so viral that if you haven’t seen it yet, […]
Athletes, workout enthusiasts, and everyone who has suffered from the embarrassing armpit “situation”, rejoice. Bioengineers at University of California, Davis have developed a new fabric that works like human skin, […]
A true pacifist doesn’t even think there should be police forces. I can’t agree with that.
I think religious people can really help to bring the end of war about very rapidly if they embrace the tenants of their faith.
Does Obama have the right to kill Americans with drones?
Anxiety is the most prevalent emotion in most organizations in the United States today.
Two University of California-Davis graduate students have created a textile that uses microfluidic technology to direct liquid completely away from itself, which could result in extra-sweaty equipment.
I get fed by the human spirit by seeing the kind of art that is created there and the kinds of innovation.
Chris Anderson’s community is aimed at demonetizing a number of industries.