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When the nurse footprinted my son at birth, she declared, “his foot almost doesn’t fit in the box” on her special Baby Footprint Form (nurses and doctors like things to fit […]
There's a kind of hostility to teachers that underlines the current corporate reform narrative.
How the mis-application of the Anthropic Principle has led factions of scientists away from the search for a natural, physical explanation of our Universe, and why that’s bad for everyone. […]
When things change dramatically we resist it at first and then we adapt and then we love the change.
My research shows that for each additional job in a high-tech company in a local community, you create about five additional jobs outside high-tech in that community.
Did you know you can raise money without having a business plan? You can get publicity for your idea without knowing anyone. You can find love even if you think you're too busy.
By the time you finish reading this short article, I hope you agree with me so much that you'll join me on my mission against "dieting" -- at least the way the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry has been pushing it on everyone for years.
Churches can create the context in which sociability can be made safe and expressed.
I'm not sure we can harness desire into identity in a way that doesn’t do some violence to it.
Biology gives us the general moral sense and the general ability to develop a moral system but the specific rules that we apply in our society are not necessarily given by biology.
There is a growing realization that weather modification projects are not only possible, but could also be an affordable solution to climate change.
Should companies have secrets? Sometimes they should, but I think companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.
Be prepared for the fact that the upcoming year won’t be free of distractions and problems no matter how hard you work on your goals, but the most important thing is to stay within the routine you establish and don’t attach yourself to the results.
Mentors can steer you away from the kinds of mistakes that are going to make you waste a year or two of your life.
Doctors offered to turn off Stephen Hawking's life support machine in 1985, the British cosmologist revealed in a new documentary to be released along with his memoirs this fall.
Cameras are part of war-waging and they’re also part of the way in which a general population assesses what is happening.
Lee Smolin posits the idea that new universes are born from parent universes through the mechanism of black holes.
What the entire natural history of everything would look like compressed down into a single calendar year. “[D]on’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live […]
Guest post by Todd Norton (Cross post from toddnorton.me) If there is one thing I have learned as a teacher, it is that someone outside of the classroom is always […]
As the world has gone from connected to interconnected to interdependent, I believe we’ve entered a new era.
Google has always been alert to the danger of advertising and even accepting advertising at all because it might corrupt or lead the people running the search engine to want to corrupt the results in favor of advertisers.
We are interlinked with everybody and therefore, they are helping us.
Certain anatomical parts, for all human history, have been there but we haven’t asked what are they for.
The ability now to create a company is so much more efficient because you don’t have to like guess in advance what you’re going to be able to do with it.
Unfortunately the way that a lot of people do it is they take the most interesting job that happens to be randomly offered to them over the phone every several years.
I try and learn also from other people's mistakes by just watching and talking to them.
Don't worry that you haven't read every last thing because A) nobody else has and B) most of it you don't need anyway.
The Joseon Dynasty ruled over Korea for more than half a millennium, stretching from 1392, when horses were still the main means of travel, to 1910, the dawn of the […]
Perhaps the most powerful contribution of cognitive psychology to human understanding has been its careful mapping out of the many ways in which we self-deceive. Our minds are expert confabulators, […]