The great books aren’t just classics — they’re cultural Schelling points that give our minds a place to meet up in the world of ideas.

Behavioral economists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky won the Nobel Prize for mapping the human mind's irrational decision-making biases, and now, with insights from Julia Galef of the Center for Applied Rationality, we can learn to avoid these pitfalls.

A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances.

“It’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.”

In the series, guests read aloud questions that pop out from a gumball machine [literally!]. The questions, like “who would you be if you stripped away all of your identities?”, […]

What the breakthrough methods of laboratory research can teach the business world about brainstorming.

Asking the wrong questions can hold you back. Natalie Nixon explains how to ask divergent questions to become a great thinker.

The curiosity of children is a national resource. Adults destroy it.

Humiliating powerful people was not a key to success.

The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.

Questioning isn't just a way to get the right answer — it's also a means for sustaining relationships and creative thinking.

Media provocateurs and conspiracy theorists insist that they're "just asking questions." No, they aren’t.