If you missed the White House Science Fair today — which you probably did — you can see the rebroadcast below, featuring hosts LeVar Burton and Bill Nye. Here’s why […]
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Technology extends our thought, our reach, our vision, helps us transcend our boundaries. I think that’s a message everybody can get behind.
I wanted my audience to identify with Shylock in a deeply personal way, so much so that they would involuntarily nod and think, “Yes, I understand, I have been there.”
In the 43 years since Earth Day was first observed, the number of Americans who view conscious environmentalism as “very important” has dropped by almost a quarter, according to a new poll.
NASA’s recent discovery of two Earth-like planets within the Kepler-62 solar system – the most Earth-like planets ever detected – is creating excitement in the scientific community that we’re close to finding […]
The Chinese smart priority on diversifying their energy portfolio and creating jobs is something that we should match them on, again.
Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried as an enemy combatant or face a federal civilian trial?
Not all vitamins are good for all people, all the time. In fact, some can kill you. And guess what? We know where the bodies are buried.
How can a uniquely Shakespearean habit of mind can be applied to our own lives in order to help us think more creatively?
Cruelty preoccupies me. I find that stories of cruelty stay with me, hauntingly, and infiltrate deeply. I cannot conceive of it in its most basic elements, the physical act of […]
We’re in a period now where capitalism is going to have to recreate itself because that selfishness works to an extent but it does leave people behind.
Historians believe that Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, making today his 449th birthday. He also died on this date in 1616. And so Shakespeare is the subject of today’s Mind Memes.
We need to support today’s “Eco Warriors” so they can “get to work and keep on raising the awareness and push corporations, governments, society at large to make better decisions.”
We need to create more resilient and innovative workplaces because the competition is fierce out there in 21st century.
You can equally improve my innovation or discovery skills if you just learn what they are and how to become better at it.
Key moments and achievements from the modern environmental movement.
What has already silenced the voices of spring in countless towns in America?
“How can I stylize a movement — the environmental movement — and make it interesting?”
If you take the analytic approach to realistically look at your skills and your strengths and help develop a plan, a roadmap to get through a challenge and identify role models in your life you’ll be on the road to optimism.
In a push against a “buy-toss-buy” consumer culture, a group of residents in one German city get together once a month to fix broken household items. It’s an example of the slowly-growing “hackerspace” movement.
The supposed rift between the emotions and behavior of men and women is largely a myth, say data analysts and psychologists at the Washington University in St. Louis.
Just as having sex and eating food stimulate reward centers in our brain (because such activities help us survive and pass on our genes), listening to music is about satisfying our desires.
Based on new research suggesting that infantile brains function similarly to adult ones, French scientists speculate that infants as young as two months might have independent thoughts.
Swiss novelist Rolf Dobelli has been making waves with a new work of nonfiction called The Art of Thinking Clearly in which he criticizes the news media for poisoning our brains with ever more novelty.
In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to share an article written by my former colleague Ross Robertson for EnlightenNext magazine called “A Brighter Shade of Green: Rebooting Environmentalism for the 21stCentury.” […]
Witnessing, as we all did, the events of Boston made me turn to the news. This was a mistake. Turning to social media was even worse. A mismanagement of information, […]
Mounting a big cooler on the front — in the same place as a bike rack — would link residents living in food deserts to areas with more food options, says Ohio State student Langley Erickson.
The extraordinary amounts of information available on individuals has led to a new discipline that one expert says represents the future of human resources management.
The ambition that propels us to advance our own careers comes at the expense of community and well-being, according to a new study that has followed the lives of a group of gifted children.
The impending catastrophe has been fueled by a skewed, institutionally enclosed rationality that is widespread within the business community; the basic principle is that short-term power and wealth are more important than human survival.