The most important part of life is work, it’s the flow, it’s getting stuff done, feeling like you’re doing something. We have that in spades. We’re really, really happy.
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I am asking members of the new upper class to stop concentrating so much on living a glossy life and think of the ways in which they can lead a more textured life.
Like a greyhound race, politics is a competition. And as the rabbit keeps moving ahead, the greyhounds are incentivized to keep chasing. Consistency bias is simply the failure to admit that’s what we’re doing.
In a provocative thought experiment, Jonathon Keats considers how two seemingly incompatible systems – religion and science – might find a way “to talk to each other or at least to cross paths.”
Found by the Hubble Space Telescope, it’s the farthest galaxy located to date, and is giving astronomers one of the earliest glimpses of what the universe was like after the Big Bang.
“The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.” – A. Bartlett Giamatti
A new study finds that the area’s dry season is three weeks longer than it was 30 years ago, and predicts it could extend longer than what was forecast by last month’s intergovernmental climate change report.
Australian researchers have discovered particles of gold in the leaves of eucalyptus trees, and speculate that they’re coming up from larger deposits underground.
A new study confirms what common sense would tell us, namely, that you need to try what is unfamiliar and mentally challenging to improve cognitive function. This might involve learning a new skill, like photography.
Now that a prototype of a crew capsule has been built and is ready for testing, it’s still not clear how the US’ next manned spacecraft will be used.
In a few months, World View will offer tickets for balloon rides that will take passengers to an altitude of about 100,000 feet. It’s not high enough to experience microgravity, but they promise an awesome view.
Contrary to popular belief, competing with other individuals or companies is counterproductive. From a business perspective, focusing on your competition instead of focusing on continuous innovation by creating new, must […]
“Rapid urbanization is the fastest, most intense social phenomenon that ever happened to humankind, perhaps to biology on Earth. I think we can now start to understand in new and […]
There’s no simple answer. Recently in the New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert gave us an evenhanded review of two conflicting perspectives on population levels, offering a sobering assessment of our near […]
Working with Caltech and MinecraftEdu, Google has released a mod for the popular world-building game that provides insights into quantum behavior.
For a short period in human history, the two-way flow of information was overshadowed by mass media. Today, the pendulum is swinging back to the way things used to be.
Rote knowledge is worth less and less than it was before. And so we need an education system that challenges students at all levels, particularly as they get a little older to think about problem solving skills, to be able to be broader in their base of education.
I always wanted to push the boundaries. There was always a ‘why.’ So if somebody gave me an answer, I wanted to know why that was so.
If I actually have to motivate you then perhaps actually I am discounting what you really are as a person. I’m saying you’re a lump that needs to be motivated.
The world has a lot of is deep areas of expertise; what the world lacks today is agility and context.
Happify provides a range of tools that use positive psychology techniques to help participants improve on qualities commonly associated with happiness, such as resilience and compassion.
Support for legalizing marijuana is now 58 percent. There are few other issues, save gay marriage, where public opinion has changed so dramatically.
Wichita State University is one of a growing number of higher-education institutions that are using predictive analysis tools to help them determine how well incoming students will do.
Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.
Next month, the University of Wisconsin will begin accepting applications for degree programs that give students three months of “all you can eat” access to online courses and allow them to earn their degrees by taking competency tests.
The Chinese Characters Dictation Competition invited students to test their knowledge of written Chinese at a time when some say technology is eroding language skills. A nationwide audience tuned in for last Friday’s finale.
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson argue that remote working is not some cooky brainchild of software developers. “The future, quite literally, belongs to those who get it.”
Over 270 robotics researchers have signed on to a proposed ban on weapons systems that can fire “without a human in the loop.”
“Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen,” remarks the central character, Maxine Tarnow, of Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, Bleeding Edge. “You can never have too much.” Pynchon seasons his latest epic […]
The financial crisis may be one reason executives are flocking to classes and seminars to learn what the great Western philosophers had to say about such concepts as respect, authority, and ethics.