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Creating full citizenship isn’t about getting people from 0 to 60. It’s about everything in between. If 60 is voting and most people are at 10, Rishi Jaitly says it […]

Cynthia Breazeal showcases “an idea in its formation,” that is, providing children in remote areas with tablets and learning apps that could enable them to teach themselves how to read.

What are the things that I want to remember and that I want to be able to access later on and focus on remembering how to access them? And then […]

Don’t just look at the short term numbers, says business turnaround expert Fred Hassan. Success starts at the level of company culture.

David Gergen, Lisa New and Chris Matthews weigh in on the question of America’s Exceptionalism.

Sharing might be the defining characteristic of being human. We are also very good at learning from others. The problem, however, is that we lack the proper filters and are […]

Just as you wouldn’t want to pick a baseball player for your team without an adequate record of past performance, you wouldn’t want to pick a leader by taking a […]

There are a lot single people who are very happy. Moreover, the scientific literature tells us that if you have not found a partner, there’s a lot of hope for […]

Meeting big, audacious, ambitious goals requires taking multiple steps in reasoning, not just thinking from point A to point B.

If you’re worried about the fact that you’re in a relationship with a psychopath, what can you do about that? What might be some certain things to look out for?

Abraham Lincoln’s humility comes from a lot of places, but it probably starts with his sense of empathy.

Recently appointed director of the venerable Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell is trying to make classical music accessible to younger audiences without dumbing it down.

Bell describes Beethoven’s 4th and 7th symphonies as joyful music, in contrast to the cliché of the composer as primarily gloomy and intense.

In some ways we’re doing better than science fiction films like 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted we would.

Over-parenting involves doing what your child can do, can almost do and confusing your child’s needs with your own.

How can you create a universe from nothing? Well if you calculate the total matter of the universe it is positive. If you calculate the total energy of the universe […]

One of the unfinished pieces of business from the Cold War is the question of the unification of the Korean Peninsula.

It’s been more than ten years since the folks at Goldman Sachs dubbed Brazil, Russia, India, and China the BRIC countries, and lately other countries have been trying to glom […]

The last thing we want to do is water down the teaching of biology because some people don’t recognize that evolution happened.

Jonathan Zittrain, speaking at the 2012 Nantucket Project, describers how crowdsourcing is being used to solve all kinds of problems, and how it can be used for good and well […]

Overcoming the myths of happiness might make life seem more complicated, but it’s the only way to stop interfering with our own potential to be happy.

Daniel Burrus says there are clear ways to predict the future in an uncertain world. You need to unplug yourself from the present and look at examples of linear change […]

Lawrence Krauss argues for differential pay scales for teachers with advanced training in science and math to accommodate the free market.

How can we train our brains to think like Sherlock Holmes? This question occupies Konnikova’s book, and her answer can be summed up in one word: mindfulness. Mindfulness is “staying […]

The most important thing is to feel about things you feel about – should feel about – and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about […]

The most important thing is to feel about things you feel about – should feel about – and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about […]

It’s a very handy thing to be a psychopath, says the psychologist Kevin Dutton.

The old conventional wisdom was the China was manipulating its currency, causing a significant drag on the global economy. That isn’t true anymore.

The soft skills associated with improv are actually the hard skills because there’s not an equation to be a great leader. There’s not an equation that tells you how to […]

Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei explains why he continues to fight legal battles in Chinese courts that are rigged against him.