It used to be that the business landscape was a man’s world. Times are changing! Today, women are wielding more and more power on both sides of the business transaction. […]
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The latest edition of the manual psychiatrists use to assess patients has gone through a major and controversial set of changes.
With terrorism at the forefront of public consciousness, it is easy to let civil liberties slip off the radar. This is unfortunate, if we learned anything from the classic psychology […]
It disappeared from central London in 1869, after an archeological magazine praised its historical value
I think that human beings are most limited in their tendency to pursue certainty and to think that answers are somehow absolute or even beneficial.
Few things are as painful to watch in movies as an activity you know and love being portrayed poorly. From the awkward baseball swings of athletically challenged actors to the […]
The Digital Public Library of America launched last week with an ambitious goal: To provide online access to content from as many libraries’ archives as possible for free.
It’s one thing to have someone online perform a routine task. It’s another if you’re blind and about to eat dinner, or you’re deaf and attending a college lecture. Two apps come to the rescue.
If you missed the White House Science Fair today — which you probably did — you can see the rebroadcast below, featuring hosts LeVar Burton and Bill Nye. Here’s why […]
Technology extends our thought, our reach, our vision, helps us transcend our boundaries. I think that’s a message everybody can get behind.
I wanted my audience to identify with Shylock in a deeply personal way, so much so that they would involuntarily nod and think, “Yes, I understand, I have been there.”
In the 43 years since Earth Day was first observed, the number of Americans who view conscious environmentalism as “very important” has dropped by almost a quarter, according to a new poll.
NASA’s recent discovery of two Earth-like planets within the Kepler-62 solar system – the most Earth-like planets ever detected – is creating excitement in the scientific community that we’re close to finding […]
The Chinese smart priority on diversifying their energy portfolio and creating jobs is something that we should match them on, again.
Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried as an enemy combatant or face a federal civilian trial?
Not all vitamins are good for all people, all the time. In fact, some can kill you. And guess what? We know where the bodies are buried.
How can a uniquely Shakespearean habit of mind can be applied to our own lives in order to help us think more creatively?
Cruelty preoccupies me. I find that stories of cruelty stay with me, hauntingly, and infiltrate deeply. I cannot conceive of it in its most basic elements, the physical act of […]
We’re in a period now where capitalism is going to have to recreate itself because that selfishness works to an extent but it does leave people behind.
Historians believe that Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, making today his 449th birthday. He also died on this date in 1616. And so Shakespeare is the subject of today’s Mind Memes.
We need to support today’s “Eco Warriors” so they can “get to work and keep on raising the awareness and push corporations, governments, society at large to make better decisions.”
We need to create more resilient and innovative workplaces because the competition is fierce out there in 21st century.
You can equally improve my innovation or discovery skills if you just learn what they are and how to become better at it.
Key moments and achievements from the modern environmental movement.
What has already silenced the voices of spring in countless towns in America?
“How can I stylize a movement — the environmental movement — and make it interesting?”
If you take the analytic approach to realistically look at your skills and your strengths and help develop a plan, a roadmap to get through a challenge and identify role models in your life you’ll be on the road to optimism.
In a push against a “buy-toss-buy” consumer culture, a group of residents in one German city get together once a month to fix broken household items. It’s an example of the slowly-growing “hackerspace” movement.
The supposed rift between the emotions and behavior of men and women is largely a myth, say data analysts and psychologists at the Washington University in St. Louis.
Just as having sex and eating food stimulate reward centers in our brain (because such activities help us survive and pass on our genes), listening to music is about satisfying our desires.