For the first time in world history, more than half the world will be in the middle class. There will be lots of discretionary income for people to buy entertainment that stimulates the brain.
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In order to innovate and solve the grand challenges facing the world, according to the entrepreneur Jack Hidary, we need to do more than just simply produce more scientists.
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter launched yesterday, bringing with it a DVD containing over 1,100 hiakus.
Mothers-in-law are the cause of sustained stress for more than 60 percent of married women.
Learning facts and figures are going to be best done by technology feeding them to you the way you want to hear them, when you want to hear them.
Alva Noë: I’m very optimistic that we can make breakthroughs precisely by trying to take steps in the direction of a more integrated, contextualized neuroscience of consciousness.
Ruchir Sharma: Always listen to what the locals have to say about the economy as opposed to global investors.
This telephoto view from Kenya, captured on the morning of November 14, shows that Comet ISON has substantially increased in activity, surging to naked-eye visibility for dark sites and sprouting a more complex tail.
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.”
-Doris Lessing, 1919 – 2013
When we fail to exercise self-control, this may not be a “failure” as we traditionally think of it. In fact, it may be “a reasoned response to the uncertainty of time.
Jascha Kaykas-Wolff is the CMO of Mindjet, and is an exceptional marketing leader. Last week, Jascha posted a short slide deck that covers how he builds marketing organizations. I worked […]
The Leonid meteor shower will be visible, weather permitting, tonight through Monday, November 18. NASA and the SLOOH Space Camera are both offering live streams of the all-night show of the Leonid Meteor Shower.
“I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe,” Hawking said.
Jeff DeGraff: As a rule of thumb I like to tell people you have to be very open and an innovation usually takes you three times as long and at least twice the amount of money you thought it would.
Bridges do collapse. Products do blow up. Drugs that save millions of people’s lives often in the development stage kill people. This is something that you have to be very honest about.
The secret to cultivating internal energy is to relax the nervous and muscuskeletal system simultaneously. Chi animates the body and makes it alive.
Engaging men to advance women in the enterprise is a human issue.
Women can succeed in any culture. But, like men, they can truly thrive in an organization that values facts and feelings.
Scientific mediation is designed to bring out the nonscientific biases that lead scientists to opposite conclusions based on the same scientific knowledge.
We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold – moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters – and that allows us to predict in great detail the large scale structure of the universe.
We create this bubble around ourselves where we reinforce the beliefs that we have, the views that we have in a world that’s rapidly changing.
Executives will talk about the importance of passion but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.
The ancient word philanthropy means loving humanity. You can help other people in a number of ways – with your ideas, your time, your energy, or with your money.
The outcry about George W. Bush’s visit to a group wanting Jews to believe in Jesus is much ado about bubkus.
While jazz is a uniquely American invention that created rhythms from scratch, Quincy Jones says the genius of the art form can also be found in its appropriation of classical instruments.
We now have started to put together “a coherent picture of how the changing East African landscape has driven human evolution over the last ten million years.”
Men can’t lead if they’re back on their heels, and if they’re busy deflecting, fearing or fabricating gender issues.
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there’s no place for it in the endeavor of science.
We experience emotions all the time that conflict with our core beliefs.
Adults make eye contact between 30% and 60% of the time in an average conversation, but people should be making eye contact 60% to 70% of the time to create a sense of emotional connection.