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“You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody else, you have to fill all the papers more than anybody else, in fact you have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform realized.”

A massive occupy movement has shut down commerce in Hong Kong’s Central business district as pro-democracy advocates protest for universal suffrage.

Companies are spending billions on digital and much of it is wasted because they’re actually missing three big things in terms of how they’re approaching it. One is they really don’t […]

If you haven’t gotten a single call from a prospective employer, it’s possible your résumé is rubbing hiring managers the wrong way. 

Swedish scientists have created a smart, eco-friendly battery that runs on alfalfa and pine resin. The recyclable power source provides about as much power as a regular lithium battery.

We’ve talked about food waste before, but let’s do it again. Nearly 30% of the food produced globally is wasted. In the meantime, 6 million children under the age of five, die […]

A little bit of history was made on Nantucket on Sunday.   Julian Assange, the co-founder of Wikileaks, has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over […]

Chronic anger is a legitimate condition that can cause long-term health effects. Temper your rage now so you can feel a lot better later on.

It took Messier himself more than a decade to observe it, but the reward is a glimpse into the ancient Universe! Image credit: Daniel Verschatse, via http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/m55.htm. “The only thing […]

Hal Luftig, who’s won four Tonys and an Olivier award, explains why there’s no entertainment experience in the world quite like live theater.

“Nudge” policies are spreading across the globe because they supposedly offer a less expensive and more effective way to get people to make the “right” decisions. In the original formulation, such decisions are defined as those that people would like to have made, had they not been hobbled and blinkered at the time by irresistible irrationality.

A recent joint-study between e-commerce platform Bigcommerce and MIT sought to assess the marketing strategies that best attract the attention of Generation Y.

La tour Eiffel rises above Parisian streets.

When Edward Jenner proposed to the parents of 8 year-old James Phipps the risky idea that rubbing some stuff from sick cows onto the young lad might protect him from […]

Your body takes a lot of cues from exposure to light and dark. If you’re jumping multiple timezones in one trip, try to control your exposure for the first few days in order to adapt.

From A to Zucchini, learn how to get anything out! Image credit: The A-steam, via http://www.theasteam.co.uk/stain-odour-removal/. “You can clean your sword as much as you want but the blood still stains […]

Arthur Brennan is a senior lecturer of psychology, research methods and statistics at St George’s, University of London. In a recent Washington Post article, he explains how his team of researchers came to the conclusion that male “sympathy pregnancy” symptoms are real.

Hollywood: City of Scandal. For example, Rin-Tin-Tin was apparently robbed of an Oscar in 1929 when the organizers decided they wouldn’t be taken seriously if they gave an award to a dog. I guess you could say that the voting results were… fixed. 

If you’re binge-watching through the night, chances are you’re not getting enough sleep. That means you’re probably not nearly as productive or happy as you should be during the day. Take a crash course in story structure and self-control in order to quash your addiction.

“To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.”  

If something went horribly wrong, could you possibly return to Earth? Image credit: ISRO. “I sometimes catch myself looking up at the Moon, remembering the changes of fortune in our […]

Montage of eight photographs of cats, ca. 1903-1928 from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. Part of a larger collection taken by photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals.

A recent Minnesota state audit revealed that board members of the charitable nonprofit Community Action of Minneapolis were dipping into the organization’s coffers. While it’s not always easy to spot that sort of corruption, you can do your own quick investigating to determine whether a nonprofit is worth your time and money.

“The extasy [sic] of abstract beauty,” artist Richard Pousette-Dart scrawled in 1981 in a notebook on a page across from a Georges Braque-looking abstract pencil drawing. Although included in Nina Leen’s iconic 1951 Life magazine photo “The Irascibles” that featured Abstract Expressionist heavyweights Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman, Pousette-Dart has always stood on the edges, as he does in the photo, of full identification with that group.

“It’s important to remember that Holmes wasn’t born Holmes. Holmes was born like you and me but probably with greater potential for certain elements of observation, but he learned over time to think like Sherlock Holmes.” -Author Maria Konnikova, from her Big Think Interview

Author Jeffrey Kluger describes how even Gandhi and MLK exhibited narcissistic behaviors in his recent Big Think Interview.

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.” Christopher Reeve would have been 62-years-old yesterday. Next month will mark the ten-year anniversary of his death.

An analysis of 101 essays penned by failed founders revealed that 42% of startups go under because their product isn’t wanted by the market.

Open houses are a terrific way to attract the attention of potential homebuyers. Just remember: sometimes you need to get out of your own way.

BEIJING – About 2,565 years ago a wise and aristocratic Kong Qiu came to the world, 551 years before a certain Jesus of Nazareth, nutcase and son of a penniless […]