When the financial crisis first struck, Bernanke “said the Fed had to operate fundamentally differently to get through this.”
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Through the first decade of the twenty-first century, cash infusion from China fueled growth in the United States to the tune of nearly $3.5 trillion.
Neuroscientists have taught a computer program how pixels from brain scans correspond to individual pixels in letters of the alphabet.
Malcolm Gladwell is defending his claim that 10,000 hours worth of practice is generally necessary before becoming an expert in highly complex fields.
University of Michigan researchers have found that staying connected to others through social media, specifically Facebook, exacts a heavy psychological tole.
Evidence points to around a 20 percent reduction in mortality among volunteers compared to non-volunteers in cohort studies.
There is a cheap, safe, chemopreventive agent for prostate cancer. It’s called selenium. But virtually nothing has been done to get the word out.
Long considered an area in which willpower reigned supreme, new scientific analyses suggest there is a positive correlation between viewing violence and acting violently.
You need to think of what a brand is in concrete terms: Where are you influencing and who knows about you and what do they say about you?
Sex existed on this planet hundreds of millions of years before homo sapiens came along and it will exist long after we’re gone and sex runs our lives.
The anticipated pain and the fear of what might happen by coming out is less scary than a life in the closet.
The objections to all of these phenomena are really not what people say they are.
The theory is we should protect people from themselves.
Big Bang Theory doesn’t tell you what banged, when it banged, how it banged.
Your own body in some sense is also a time machine because time does not beat at the same rate inside your body which is now a measurable affect.
Business at it’s best it can be an engine of the kind of change that we all want to help us live better lives.
It’s not enough just to understand finance, you have to understand what the human rights community thinks.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
We really can make a masterpiece out of our own lives if we so choose.
Sleep disorder specialists are calling attention to a new trend that, while less dangerous than sleep-driving, still represents a potential health concern.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
The marriage of art and science is so crucially important because it extends who and what we are.
I decided that I would attempt to scientifically figure out where on the phylogenetic tree, which is the master map of all the species on earth, where you might put God.
We all every now and then have that guilty pleasure of thinking like a child.
A good half the time, I’m doing what I want to do, which is very rewarding. It’s like play.
Mood has long been known to affect health, with those living in consistently happier states enjoying a lower risk of disease.
Is willpower something that we’re born with and live with our entire lives?
If you don’t have enough people with an urgent frame of mind, it’s like putting up a tall building and you don’t put in the pilings deep enough.