The last time the population shrank was during the great famine of 1959-61.
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Is it true that half of disaster relief is motivated politically rather than by need?
Virtual tourism has thus far been a futuristic dream, but a world shaped by Covid-19 may be ready to accept it.
A psychologist and a doctor of emergency medicine explain.
New research identifies 16 different COVID-19 personality types and the lessons we can learn from this global pandemic.
There are many ways asynchronous learning benefits both individuals and organizations, from learner autonomy to cost savings.
Northwell Health is using insights from website traffic to forecast COVID-19 hospitalizations two weeks in the future.
Smallpox, Ebola, HIV, influenza, the plague, malaria, and a whole host of terrible bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites were cooked up by Mother Nature, all on her own. Apparently, Mother Nature hasn’t banned gain-of-function research.
There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
It occurred naturally, and scientists know this for certain. Starting in late 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, began infecting human beings for the very first time. Discovered in samples […]
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Gain-of-function mutation research may help predict the next pandemic — or, critics argue, cause one.
Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?
A newly discovered coronavirus — but not the one that causes COVID-19 — has made some dogs very sick.
Engaging in a brief mindfulness exercise made people who identified “I/me” words 33% less likely to volunteer.
Did America’s collective mental health get worse (and then better) after the first COVID-19 lockdown?
To do more, it sometimes pays to do nothing at all.
Since 2015, the Women in the Workplace report has evaluated the successes of women in corporate America alongside the challenges they face. Sponsored by McKinsey & Co. and Lean In, […]
To gain its full value, L&D leaders must be open to challenging assumptions about how they approach on-the-job training.
If you’re trying to break a bad habit or start a good one, psychologists have some tips.
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
Contact-tracing apps can be a useful tool for public health, but they have considerable false positive and false negative rates.
Dennis “Thresh” Fong talks to us about battling Elon Musk in Quake in the ‘90s, his undefeated record as a pro gamer, and using AI to detoxify gaming.
The benefits of employee training are felt far and wide, from improvements in workers’ wellbeing to better customer interactions.
82% of professionals say they’d take a lower-paying job to work for an organization with more ethical business practices. This is just one of the reasons to offer ethics training for employees.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.