Matthew Hankins over at Psychologically Flawed has harvested an amusing list of quotes from studies that failed to find a significant result: a borderline significant trend (p=0.09) a clear trend […]
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I’ve written about sex work, incest, necrophilia, nonmonogamy, procreation, and other topics dealing with sex. This might give the impression I’m deeply concerned about sex and my need to have […]
Only recently did Michael Pollan, the country’s most popular food writer, become comfortable in the kitchen. Now he has written a new book about the importance of cooking and family eating.
I don’t think mathematical models can do much to get us out of the mess that we’re in.
God doesn’t answer back. That’s the problem. Humans can.
The only thing we can do in our lifetime—those of us who do want change—is to keep pushing for it.
A conversation with Matt Arnold, Managing Director and Head of the Office of Environmental Affairs, JPMorgan Chase.
In his commencement address at Rice on May 11, Neil deGrasse Tyson channeled Kennedy, saying how our thirst to explore is what drives innovation.
We have rights that we need to defend, but we also have responsibilities just like when we walk down the street.
At the beginning of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes made a bold but logical prediction (pdf): In the long run, humanity was solving its economic problems, so that by […]
Bilingual children show better ability to follow abstract rules, to reverse rules that they’ve learned already.
Children’s dreams are a really interesting window into their developing minds.
As more businesses ditch employee landlines, estimates show that within the next three years, single-phone users will outnumber those with separate work and personal phones.
In honor of Bob Dylan’s 72nd birthday today, we are sharing 5 of our favorite Dylan mind memes among the thousands that can be found in his body of work.
“Star Trek” reference aside: Some universities are adding a fifth year to their undergraduate engineering curriculum in order to give students time to catch up on core skills. It’s a concept athletics departments call “redshirting.”
Strategist and CEO Amy Jo Martin says that not only should we not fear young kids’ use of social media, we should teach them to view it as a personal branding tool for their future success.
“When people have problems exercising self-control, restricting their choices can, in some cases, leave them more freedom to choose.”
So America, let me repeat, is more than ever a meritocracy defined by productivity. Now, that’s not all we are. And it’s far from bad news that we’ve gotten over […]
Too often, readers finish popular books on decision making with the false conviction that they will decide better.
Francesca Gino describes how our plans get sidetracked when we are implementing them because “we are too confident in our own abilities.”
What really matters in an art education? Do we teach every child to paint or sculpt? Do we school them in names and dates and places? Or do we somehow […]
In the spirit of maintaining an open mind, and in an attempt to purge myself of past prejudices, I will be re-reading The Great Gatsby this weekend.
A small but growing number, mostly women, are entering cohousing arrangements that provide social interaction while still encouraging independence.
A proposed People’s Terms of Service Contract would provide a weapon against the often opaque and non-negotiable contracts designed to protect corporations at the expense of users.
Imagine you have a friend who, like many high-achieving people, has a goal. In the service of that goal, your friend eats very little and ends up looking like skin […]
When you have a very rigid society without social mobility the underachieving kids of overachieving parents get a privileged run and get helped into colleges they shouldn’t really be getting into.
Complex systems can fall apart really quickly if they tip over the edge of chaos.
I think that we’re just at the very, very beginning of watching the implications of being ubiquitously connected to everybody on the planet and what you can do with that.
I think that it’s great to inspire new generations of thinkers; it’s terrible to create new authority.
Nicholas Negroponte famously called the Media Lab a place full of answers looking for questions.