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Roger Moenks’s I Am Eco Warrior Project aims to stylize the environmental movement as cool or in the frontline of pop culture.
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The Planetary Society is the only organization now that does optical searches, so we have a telescope that looks, if you will, for laser signals from other civilizations.
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We are conscious of both more and less than affects our nervous system
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Robert Kaplan explains how success is not about meeting someone else’s definition of success, but defining it on your own terms.
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The tax on corporate profits is a terrible tax. Economists to this day don’t know who pays it. And that means that we really don’t know who’s bearing the burden.
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Some parents need to confront the fact that their children are not normal and that they are not normal parents either.
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Author and NYU professor Adam Alter delves into the psychology of “drunk tank pink.”
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Art and science are really not that different in their objective. Just they’re different in the way they approach it.
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While there is a chance that many of the scientific innovations that have been forecast will come true, even within our lifetime, we still can’t count on them. We have […]
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What would people use a 3-D printer at home for? Probably for making things that are consumable that they need on demand.
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Datafication refers to the fact that daily interactions of living things can be rendered into a data format and put to social use.
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The future won’t be easier, simpler, or less uncertain than what we’re living in today. The only way to unlock the solutions to that wild terrain we’re walking into is […]
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Instead of outsourcing innovation overseas we need to create a talent funnel here in the United States. If we don’t act, “we’re gonna be faced with significant challenges as a […]
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Finding the right work-life balance is like navigating an iron triangle which involves an individual, the boss, and the support of the people who are in their life.
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The idea that a painting is not complete until the viewer responds to it was conceived of by Alois Riegl. He determined that as art evolved, you see there’s a […]
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We are socialized to blame ourselves when things go wrong in love because that is what is available to refashion when you are in a psychiatrists office. Sociology can help […]
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Web 3.0 is emerging faster than Web 1 to Web 2 because of processing power, bandwidth and storage creating a curve of exponential change. And what is Web 4.0? You […]
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More than ten years after the publication of his groundbreaking work of urban theory, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” Richard Florida is sticking to his assertion that the rising […]
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Parents hate to hear it when Madeline Levine tells them, “You know, most of your kids are average.” But the reality is, most of us are average, too.
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Penn Jillette says that despite Donald Trump’s apparent craziness, the real estate mogul’s move into entertainment is a good role for him in our culture.
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As CEO of Procter & Gamble, A.G. Lafley says he turned the organizational chart upside down, putting himself at the bottom and the customer at the top.
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Former Microsoft executive John Wood explains his strategy for creating and developing his non-profit Room to Read at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, Massachusetts.
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Dr. Eric Kandel describes the “aha phenomenon” and speculates on ways that humans and groups can think more creatively.
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Daniel Altman explores the economic ideas behind Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to limit the sale of large sugary beverages.
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If Yahoo employees are not being as productive as they should be, that is a management issue, not a problem inherent with felxible work schedules.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I’m almost embarrassed for my species that you can be so blind to everything experts have been telling you and you got to wait for people to […]
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The workforce at GM was pretty disheartened when the company hit hard times during the recent recession. And yet, GM employees wanted to prove to everybody that they could design, […]
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Elizabeth Stark describes how Internet activism stopped legislation such as SOPA, which she saw as a threat to online freedom.
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Charles Mrray designed this quiz to have a salutary effect on bringing to people’s attention the degree to which they live in a bubble that seals them off from an […]
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Penn Jillette: I don’t think Daniel Kahneman knew he was writing a magic book. I don’t think he knew he was writing about Celebrity Apprentice. But he might have.
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