Based on new research suggesting that infantile brains function similarly to adult ones, French scientists speculate that infants as young as two months might have independent thoughts.
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Swiss novelist Rolf Dobelli has been making waves with a new work of nonfiction called The Art of Thinking Clearly in which he criticizes the news media for poisoning our brains with ever more novelty.
In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to share an article written by my former colleague Ross Robertson for EnlightenNext magazine called “A Brighter Shade of Green: Rebooting Environmentalism for the 21stCentury.” […]
Witnessing, as we all did, the events of Boston made me turn to the news. This was a mistake. Turning to social media was even worse. A mismanagement of information, […]
Mounting a big cooler on the front — in the same place as a bike rack — would link residents living in food deserts to areas with more food options, says Ohio State student Langley Erickson.
The extraordinary amounts of information available on individuals has led to a new discipline that one expert says represents the future of human resources management.
The ambition that propels us to advance our own careers comes at the expense of community and well-being, according to a new study that has followed the lives of a group of gifted children.
The impending catastrophe has been fueled by a skewed, institutionally enclosed rationality that is widespread within the business community; the basic principle is that short-term power and wealth are more important than human survival.
Starting in 2016, the Schwartzman Scholars program will pay for 200 students — 45 percent of whom will be American — to attend a one-year master’s program at one of China’s most prestigious universities.
If we exercise our power as users, as consumers, as investors and voters we can make a difference.
You’ve got to listen to your gut.
Facing financial obstacles along the way to paying out retiree pensions, businesses are increasingly moving their own products into employee benefit plans or investing in exotic goods.
What does it mean that the world has become Apple-ized? Apple’s competitors start acting more like Apple, and consumers start appreciating more what Apple does best.
It’s quite a refined art to be able to assess the quality of the information wherever it’s acquired.
More often than not it’s the one lone instrument, person, human that senses something that no one else does.
They combed through 1,000 obituaries.
I’ve always been deeply curious and interested in human behavior and also felt a close affinity with that evolutionary explanations.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully transplanted a lab-grown kidney into a mouse that filters blood and urine, albeit at a fraction of a natural kidney’s functionality.
When veterinarians began changing the diets of two overweight grizzly bears at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo, some observers noted how the process might equally benefit human health.
Researchers at the Australian National University conducted an experiment in which 105 heterosexual women were asked to rate men as sexual partners according to three physical characteristics.
So I want to call your attention to a fine article by Jonathan Marks in Inside Higher Ed, the daily online newspaper of higher education. Marks writes at a level […]
Genius is not genetic. Mastery comes through a process.
Writer Farhad Manjoo argues that systematic surveillance in cities that are terrorist targets may be the simplest and best way to improve security. Besides, he says, it’s not like we’re not being watched already.
Now that technology allows more people to work pretty much anywhere and at any time, what does that mean for 21st-century city planners and urban designers?
What a revealing real-time lesson we are living through right now in how humans respond to risk. More than a million people in Boston and several large surrounding cities […]
A German study showed that male test subjects were far more likely to correctly guess the emotional states of other men via eye contact. Interestingly, there may be an evolutionary basis to this.
Imagine there’s no religion. That’s what the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch did in his iconic painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights.”
Humans are an optimistic bunch. We overestimate desirable traits (humor), skills (driving) and our future states (well-being and health). Worse, we believe that we are immune to these better-than-average errors, […]
It’s the second South American country to create a government-backed accelerator program offering funding to local and foreign talent. Up to $78 million will be offered, on the condition that the companies stay for a while.
In the Chinese Zodiac, the snake is a mythical creature that symbolizes academia, wisdom, and the pursuit of knowledge. What better year than this to talk about the coming expansion of Chinese thought and the rise of China’s terminologies.