Scientific mediation is designed to bring out the nonscientific biases that lead scientists to opposite conclusions based on the same scientific knowledge.
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We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold – moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters – and that allows us to predict in great detail the large scale structure of the universe.
We create this bubble around ourselves where we reinforce the beliefs that we have, the views that we have in a world that’s rapidly changing.
Executives will talk about the importance of passion but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.
The ancient word philanthropy means loving humanity. You can help other people in a number of ways – with your ideas, your time, your energy, or with your money.
The outcry about George W. Bush’s visit to a group wanting Jews to believe in Jesus is much ado about bubkus.
While jazz is a uniquely American invention that created rhythms from scratch, Quincy Jones says the genius of the art form can also be found in its appropriation of classical instruments.
We now have started to put together “a coherent picture of how the changing East African landscape has driven human evolution over the last ten million years.”
Men can’t lead if they’re back on their heels, and if they’re busy deflecting, fearing or fabricating gender issues.
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there’s no place for it in the endeavor of science.
We experience emotions all the time that conflict with our core beliefs.
Adults make eye contact between 30% and 60% of the time in an average conversation, but people should be making eye contact 60% to 70% of the time to create a sense of emotional connection.
Eric Siegel never thought he would experience a machine acting in a way that he would subjectively consider to be intelligent. IBM’s Watson, however, changed all of that.
“I could erase an entire life,” thinks a pensive Adolf Hitler as he stares into his mirror in one of the many striking images from the career of artist Raymond […]
The Path to Socialism with Chinese Characteristics BEIJING – Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Party’s Central Committee, delivered a work report to the Third Plenary Session of the 18th […]
It’s no mystery that fear sells, and for good reason. News stories, products, politics…it doesn’t matter what it is or where you hear about it, if something suggests danger, […]
The trust deficit is the fact that emerging nations have not been recognized for their contributions to the global economy and don’t have a voice.
Andrew Solomon shares a powerful lesson about unconditional love, about finding strength in broken places and about redefining one’s identity.
Doris Kearns Goodwin locates Roosevelt’s leadership savvy in his ability to use his office as a persuasion machine.
It’s explanation all the way down even though we won’t get to it because the explanations are infinite and we’re finite. That’s Spinoza’s guide.
Innovation is different because it’s the only form of value that happens in the future for which we have no real data.
Michael Simonds: It’s essential for us to understand that women can generate powerful results without mirroring male expectations and male style.
The dangers of darkness and vitamin D deficiency have been creeping into recent considerations about natural light. Eighty years ago, the conversation was far more alarmist and far more embracing of our nearest star.
Well, okay, maybe you are dumb, drunk, vapid, and horny (oh, and also, lazy and narcissistic—see Time). You’re young, after all. In case you’ve not seen them, some Colorado ads […]
Joel Primack: Just as the universe ended its exponential expansion rather abruptly, we’re going to have to do the same thing.
Chris Brassell: I view female inclusion and advancement in the workplace as a seed-and-soil issue.
“After a very long wait, the image that the world has awaited is finally here!”
To create a happy family, you don’t need some big, new scheme that’s going to be hard to set up and impossible to follow.
One learns habits — good or bad — implicitly, without thinking about them.
One could view Chi as the electrical current that connects different channels within the body.