So Republicans are starting to compare the signature lies of President Clinton and President Obama. Here they are: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” “No […]
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Couples that stay together tend to have very highly correlated levels of oxytocin.
71 percent of employers choose emotional intelligence over IQ.
More than anything else, eating an excessive number of calories is what makes people fat.
Guest post by Curt Rees. The first day of the school year is here across the country, and my experience with school has been that the environment you establish at […]
How can the ethics of compromise and confrontation, as practiced in Washington, be improved?
I wonder if 50 years from now we’ll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.
For six years, Nicholas Merrill wasn’t allowed to say who he was.
All that it takes to cope with the death of a loved one is the philosophical habit of turning easily understood ideas into the more difficult practice of how you perceive the world day by day.
If you know only one work of modern art, it’s probably The Scream. More people know that “Mona Lisa” of modern angst than know the name of the artist that […]
“The more players that want to create original content and finance it,” Littlefield says, “the more exciting it is in the world of ideas.”
An intriguing piece of research has added an unexpected category of things that evolution may have taught us, down in our DNA, to be afraid of. Plants.
If you filled out a form today, you were probably asked your “gender.” I’m always tempted to answer “mannish,” or “girlie.” This isn’t what the form wants to know. Frequently […]
We as a culture have invested the words of this book with amazing authority even though we don’t know what these words are and what they mean.
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 […]
We hear the admonishments all the time; smoking ___ cigarettes a day will take ___ years off your life, drinking ___ glasses of alcohol a day will take […]
“If you want to go to a top-tier school…;” It’s a “lower-tier school, but good…” In conversations about college, you often hear rankings-focused comments. It’s difficult to remember the time […]
Who is making us more polarized?
Many Americans seem to hold on to a romanticized portrait of Columbus even when they are exposed to his dark side.
The Stories They Tell celebrates “September 12th thinking” at its best—a generosity of the spirit, a heroism within us all, and a strength to continue moving forward despite the terrible knowledge that the anarchy and insanity that spawned the attacks exists in our world.
My students looked a little funny this morning. Nails were brighter, curls were bouncier, rumples were sparser and a few young men even sported ties. Today was senior portrait day, […]
Recently General Motors announced that they’re building a new, $258 million enterprise data center in Moring, Michigan. With it, they are going from 23 outsourced data centers around the world […]
Thanks to the government shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration can’t fully check imported foods for things that could make us sick. This includes half the fruit, a fifth of the vegetables, and almost all of the seafood.
Fred Wilson thinks that Venture Capital is changing — in 25 years, VCs may not have any assets under management. Last night, Sarah Lacy asked Fred Wilson ‘The Thiel Question’ […]
We’ve seen more and more human functions be transferred to machines, to robots, to computers, we haven’t all in fact grown poorer.
I find it fascinating that based on what we now know, we can’t yet say that it’s impossible to travel in time.
A victory for common sense, a setback for sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll
As artist Robert Williams grew up in his often dysfunctional, divorced home in the 1940s and 1950s, his mother wished he’d become a cowboy. After seeing Cecil B. DeMille’s 1935 […]
“Unimaginable!” roared Parisian newspaper headlines on August 23, 1911, the day after the Louvre discovered that someone had stolen Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa. Who, everyone asked, took La Joconde, […]
As study after study shows, women receive an enormous amount of abuse for any online activity: whether as journalists, sex writers, performers. Just being a woman (online) is sufficient to […]