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.
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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.
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson (born on this day in 1850)
The assumed behaviors within competencies used in the filtering and assessment processes may unintentionally be carrying a legacy bias toward a male style of leadership.
Movie ratings in the United States today boil down to a few simple elements—sex bombs, f-bombs, and real (fake) bombs. Too much sex or nudity, too much profanity, or too […]
Five score and seventeen years ago, the United States was a boxy, silver-coloured dog with a chunky tail of dark gold. That bizarre image, embedded in the familiar outline of […]
Is the frequency of extreme weather events a sign that global warming is gaining pace and exceeding predictions?
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: Religious belief is now something that scientists are looking at and trying to explain and I don’t think it’s an accident that the most prominent atheist writers come from the domain of evolutionary psychology.
Sadly, the only thing that you can consistently say about someone who holds a high school diploma, especially one issued in the last few years, is that they come from a family stable enough to get them to school most days for 12 years.
Everybody built very big missiles all through the end of the marketplace at once and they kind of canceled each other out.
Companies need to test their most interesting people now, to get them ready to take over soon. The markets demand this, and ignoring the markets is always foolhardy.