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These Soft Robots Have Super Strength, Cost Less Than a Dollar, and Are Built in Minutes
This remarkable breakthrough is sure to usher in a new generation of robots.
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Why Mythologies Like Adam and Eve Are Such Good Thinking Tools
Don't settle for comfortable and familiar thoughts, reach for what you don't know, says Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt.
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The key to a happy relationship? Understanding why you fight
Why do people have the same fights, over and over again? That's the repetition compulsion, a deeply ingrained psychological phenomenon—but not so deep that it can't be beaten.
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How to win a negotiation? Decode the subtext of people’s demands
Haggling over a number? That's a terrible way for people to negotiate, says Harvard International Negotiation Project head honcho Dan Shapiro.
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Good Investors Make Money. Great Investors Create Value.
The finance sector often lives up to its bad reputation, but here's how a 2000-year-old piece of wisdom can help rehabilitate the way people and corporations think about money.
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Scientists Suspect Genetic Underpinnings to Human Monogamy
A groundbreaking study from a Harvard University team suggests that monogamy may be genetically programmed within some mammals.
Harvard Scientists Launch $20M ‘Stratospheric Injection’ Climate Change Experiment
US scientists fearing for Earth's climate future begin testing solar geoengineering. The consequences may be terrifying — which is exactly why we need these small-scale experiments.
Psychopaths do feel regret – but only after they’ve crossed the line
They have the same feelings as normal people. It’s how they make decisions that’s different.
Knowingly Taking a Placebo Still Reduces Pain, Studies Find
This technique could have applications in pain management and addiction treatment.
Theater Directors Should Think More Like Good Lovers: The Audience Comes First
Theaters today seem like hallowed ground, says Harvard's Diane Paulus, but that's not their natural state. Once, they had the same atmosphere as sport: visceral, alive, and indebted to its audience. How can we get back there?
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What Contract Theory Is and Why It Deserves a Nobel Prize
How do we make fair contracts? These guys figured it out, and their work has implications in ethical and business questions about companies like Enron and privatized prisons.
There Are $39 Million Reasons to Stop Making the Penny
Find a penny, pick it up, all year long, you'll have that f*cking penny. There is a mounting consensus that the US should retire its tiniest coin.
Time Might Not Exist Outside of Our Minds, Propose Scientists
Researchers create a new theory of time that goes against established physics.
A World Without Work: Robotic Automation Won’t Be as Bad as We Think
Job automation won't be as bad as we think, so we need to learn how to stop working and prepare so we're not dragged into the future kicking and screaming.
Science Is One Step Closer to Cloning a Race of Super Humans
Being able to rewrite DNA as we wish could give us almost god-like power over all life on earth.
The tyranny of positivity: A Harvard psychologist details our unhealthy obsession with happiness
Think happy, be happy? Maybe not. Harvard psychologist Susan David examines the backlash effect of forced positivity in our lives.
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Harvard Scientists Create a Revolutionary Robot Octopus
A team of Harvard researchers 3D prints a fully autonomous octopus-like robot that runs on a chemical reaction.
Having Career or Relationship Anxiety? Change Your Patterns, Not Yourself
Who are you? Good question. Harvard professor Michael Puett explores the idea of the "self", and how what you believe to be your true nature may actually just be patterns you've fallen into.
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