Whether you’ve ever run across this famous “how many triangles” puzzle or not, you’re in for a treat looking at the magnificence of the solution. “Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! […]
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Dan Savage: Monogamy is ridiculous and people aren’t any good at it.
Dan Savage: I’ve often felt it’s very empowering to acknowledge what you don’t know.
When you work from a higher purpose you unleash greater degrees of commitment, greater degrees of loyalty and greater creativity in the workplace and that gives competitive advantage.
Effusive praise said while touching your children – do that once a day, three times week – and you’ll change the fighting that goes on between them.
Punishment – mild, severe, abusive – changes behavior only at the moment it is delivered.
If someone is drowning, that’s not a time you can teach them to swim.
William Sahlman: Without overconfidence, I’m convinced entrepreneurship wouldn’t take place.
William Sahlman: If you view all problems as opportunities, and then you think about ways to re-engineer a process, then I think you find opportunity is absolutely everywhere.
We can train people how to get control of resources like money or to recruit and build teams, or to structure sensible strategies.
Why the kind of knowledge you get by asking the Universe questions about itself is the most valuable type of knowledge there is. “I’m also uncomfortable with dogmatic believers; to my […]
In the Human Genome Project, multiple countries and thousands of scholars proved how a “grandly large project” could be completed if it has “a very defined goal.”
If the products and services of U.S. companies are seen as “compromised,” technology executives worry that foreign consumers may abandon them in favor of “N.S.A.-resistant” products such as the blackphone that Big Think wrote about recently.
We Earthlings have lots of growing up to do before we reach the shimmering standard of equality set by Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets.
A startup called Elio Motors is preparing to launch a $6,800 car in 2015 that boats impressive efficiency – up to 84 miles per gallon for highway driving (49 miles per gallon for urban driving).
Horrible, horrible social injustices “I feel like a walking corpse.” BEIJING – Left picture: Gong Qifeng is traumatized and suffers from schizophrenia ever since the forced abortion of her second boy […]
Under the tremendous pressure and at the incredible temperatures of the Earth’s deep interior, there’s a thick layer of liquid: our outer core. But why is it so? “If you ever […]
Almost everyone these days uncritically accepts that the solution to antibiotic-resistant disease is to use fewer antibiotics.
Richard Feynman: “Social science is an example of a science which is not a science… They follow the forms… but they don’t get any laws.”
Human brains are the sources of ideas and ideas multiply all other resources and make your life better.
Highly effective impulse marketing strategies have been perfected for selling junk food. Obesity rates have skyrocketed.
When Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque first brought Cubism onto the modern art scene in the first decade of the 20th century, the initial reviews were mixed. Like-minded artists and […]
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”- Federico Fellini (born on this date in 1920)
“Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.”- Daniel Webster (born on this date in 1782)
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali (born on this date in 1942)
Dennis Kozlowski, the founder and former CEO of Tyco, is often seen as a poster child for an era wrought with greed and corporate corruption. Catherine Neal challenges this one-dimensional […]
One year ago Denver Post reporter Michael Booth found that nearly half of children in the United States are under-vaccinated. A massive study of 320,000 children ages two to seven […]
The Sun — like nearly all stars — burns bright through its nuclear reactions, sending light, heat and energy out into the Universe over a timespan of billions of years. But how? “The sun is […]
Dennis Kozlowski, the founder and former CEO of Tyco, is seen as a poster child for an era wrought with greed and corporate corruption. Catherine Neal challenges this one-dimensional view of the man.