communication
Sticklers, pedants, and English teachers love to correct your grammar, but they can put their red pens down when it comes to these six folk errors.
If you want to avoid conversation dead ends, remember to “turn” the conversation more than you “take it,” says entrepreneur and author Andrew Horn.
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Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.
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It seems intuitive that the best way to interpret how others are feeling would be to both see and hear how they’re behaving. However, a new study suggests that’s dead wrong.
Before you follow another “tip” or “trick,” there’s something Alan Alda wants you to know.
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“We don’t notice one another nearly as much as we think we do,” says Alan Alda. Here’s how the actor inspired a scientific study on empathy.
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Once we discover alien life out there, humanity will never be the same.
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A study analyzes the relationship between how fast people speak and how much information they actually relate.
How are we supposed to communicate about science in an age when political partisanship and media hype dominate the 24/7 news cycle?