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First, we have to understand the internet. Then we have to understand the audience.
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Scientists at Stanford Medicine recently observed that some mice recovered from strokes better than others, leading them to wonder whether or not they could find evidence that specific genes played […]
Why cute images are a productivity hack
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America's #1 problem? It's gone from "We the people" to "We the shareholders". Can capitalism be better than this?
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MIT's Robert Langer explains why great leadership is determined by the quality of your questions.
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Lions, lightning, and rivers all have one thing in common. We can use the laws of nature to build a regenerative economy and fix rampant inequality.
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Book-smarts don't mean anything if you don't know how to apply them to life.
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs discusses how the megarich can help millions of children by donating 1 percent of their wealth.
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A man paralyzed from the waist down was able to voluntarily control and move his legs with the help of an electrical implant in his spine.
MIT professor Robert Langer is a prolific American inventor in medicine. His advice? Don't follow the money, do meaningful work.
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Are university safe spaces killing intellectual growth?
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Great again? Why America stopped looking forward to the future.
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How the U.N. hatched the most ambitious plan in the world.
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Mindfulness practices can considerably improve the symptoms of depression and anxiety, especially when used with psychotherapy.
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Meritocracy doesn't work when some people benefit from the system disproportionately.
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It deploys nets to capture useless space junk.
Diplomacy is not always pretty and much of the work of diplomats is misrepresented and politicized but it is absolutely essential to keep the world at peace.
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Quarantines are worth the trouble to keep the next pandemic at bay but they need to be applied intelligently.
You are leaking data, and absorbing it, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. But for whose benefit?
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You might say members of the Intellectual Dark Web don't fit in. They might say, "exactly."
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"I think it's worth asking yourself, 'What risks are worth taking?' And once you've decided to take them, change who you are so you can win."
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We all live by society's invisible rules but for some groups, these rules are tighter than for others, says psychologist Michele Gelfand.
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Economic necessity and growing isolation are making some middle-class families try coparenting, explains author Alissa Quart.
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How does Alzheimer's disease work?
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A new study shows that some men's reaction to sex is not what you'd expect, resulting in a condition previously observed in women.