Management expert Daniel Pink on how to influence others by asking the right questions.
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“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” – Nicholas Murray Butler
Nearly every society has vastly more wealth today than ever before. So why doesn’t the world’s burgeoning wealth afford its citizens more leisure time?
The FBI’s zero-tolerance drug use policy for new hires is costing the Bureau dearly, according to FBI Director James B Comey, who is having trouble staffing the 2,000 posts of a newly-created cybercrime unit.
TAIPEI/TOKYO – What is this East-Asian obsession with blades and stabbings that has perverted these otherwise harmonious quarters of Confucian legacy? The knife seems to be the preferred device of […]
New polling data out of Gallup has found that attending an elite university doesn’t result in a happier or more productive graduate.
Physicists at the University of Cambridge have found a theoretical foundation for the existence of wormholes, which are tubes that connect two different points in space-time.
Elections for the European Parliament have been held every five years since 1979, but none have been as crucial as this 8th edition, taking place from 22 to 25 May. […]
Nobody goes to a baseball game to watch the umpires, so why would someone go to a museum to see an exhibition dedicated to an art critic—one of those arbiters […]
Dickson Despommier on how vertical farming can help us meet the challenges of feeding a growing global population.
A comet that’s never crossed Earth’s orbit might lead to the most spectacular sky show in years! “I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, […]
The variability of weather and the natural limitations on land use present problems for food growers, not to mention pests that can decimate crop yields.
There is now a preventative treatment against HIV for those exposed to higher-than-normal levels of risk, such as individuals with HIV-positive partners or those who inject illicit drugs and share equipment.
The common theme that binds Stevens’ proposed amendments is his belief in the right of self-governance.
How should small-business owners deal with the Affordable Care Act? Well, I believe in doing the math – and I think that’s a wonderful initial step. Run the numbers. See […]
Crowdfunding relies on building online communities around projects, but what can it do for physical, local communities? Neighborhoods are the original social networks, according to Henry Grabar in a recent […]
Coal is essential for creating steel, cement, and agricultural fertilizer, i.e. the pillars of modern society.
Approximately 70 percent of Americans use prescription drugs which raises serious concern for the potential levels of pill addiction in this country. Leading health organizations, including the Center for Disease […]
Clean energy. GREEN energy. Energy that can solve global warming. Environmentalists are all for it. And as a direct result, no matter what the benefits, conservatives are absolutely against it. […]
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
If the industrialized and industrializing nations of the world do not commit to reducing fossil fuel emissions in the coming years, Earth will cross a climate change threshold by 2036.
Do you remember where you were when you first heard of this thing called the Internet? Do you remember how this technology—email, search engines—gradually took over your life, or perhaps […]
Race may be genetic in that scientists, who have sequenced the genomes of thousands of people from around the world, can distinguish between races based on an individual’s genetic code.
Pioneer of facial recognition technology, Dr. Joseph J. Atick is now working against some of the technology’s strongest advocates to develop policies that will preserve individuals’ rights to remain anonymous.
No single factor can explain the aging process. Rather, lifespan is determined by complex interactions among diet, mitochondrial DNA, and nuclear DNA.
In the heart of our nearest big galaxy cluster, a massive spiral fights for its life. “Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been […]
The popular phrase meant to guide your decisions through the weeds of life to the garden of self-fulfillment is more harmful than helpful.
We know several key things lie ahead for our planet: an aging population, climate change, a changing energy economy, immigration, and new personal technologies.
Into the Bestiary Business Should Chinese creatures be incorporated into Anglo-Saxon parlance, and if so, where to draw the line in number and color? This goes beyond linguistic pedantry and […]
