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Relax, says Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit. You can’t beat your Facebook addiction into submission – so schedule it into your work day.
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While strife is bound to happen between different religious communities, there is no occasion to apologize. Alain de Botton says it’s awkward to apologize, after all. “This could lead to […]
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The assistant managing editor of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40” rankings offers up 3 tips to women who want to accelerate their careers.
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Comedian Margaret Cho shares the story of the best mentor she ever had.
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Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt tells Big Think that Shakespeare inhabited a world in which “it’s much more possible to express homosexual passion and inact that passion without triggering a social […]
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Educational historian Diane Ravitch explains why NCLB has failed, and what we can do about it.
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The legendary punk rocker offers some advice to today’s youth.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita argues that gerrymandering gives incumbents a wildly unfair advantage.
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In Hooked Up, Myers focuses on a subset of Millennials he terms “Internet Pioneers” who are much better connected and much more savvy technologically than any other generation before, and […]
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Dr. Kaku answers the question of whether it is possible to resurrect the dinosaurs by “turning on” their ancient genes? Moreover, now that we have also sequenced the genes of […]
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In this installment of Penn Jillette’s Atheist’s Guide to the 2012 Election, the Penn and Teller illusionist (and outspoken atheist) sizes up Mitt Romney’s religion.
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Don’t have sex just because it’s good for you, says Slavoj Žižek.
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What is the Higgs boson? Michio Kaku describes the Higgs boson as a fuse. “It’s a match. It’s the spark that set off the Big Bang. It put the bang […]
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According to Mitt Romney’s former Bain Capital colleague Ed Conard, Romney is someone who tended to always take the longview in business.
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If adults want to deny evolution, that’s fine. Sure. Whatever. But those adults better not make their kids follow in step because we as society need them to be better.
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Now in its second year, The Nantucket Project is a festival of ideas that will be held on Nantucket, MA from October 5-8, 2012.
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Christopher Ryan argues that we are hardwired to crave novelty, which leads to infidelity in marriages. Ryan says the way that culture responds to this “natural behavior” causes more problems […]
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When people are free to choose anything they want, they usually choose what their friends have chosen, says internist and sociologist Nicholas Christakis. Mimicry is a fundamental part of human […]
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New businesses in Silicon Valley and Alley have tremendous power over what it will mean to be human in the coming decades. And with great power comes great responsibility. We […]
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Renowned translator David Bellos discusses the short history — and future — of machine translation.
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Bruce Finley explains how employees can make the best possible choices in benefits packages.
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Edward Burger is a professor of mathematics at Williams College and an educational and business consultant. His forthcoming book, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking (coauthored with Michael Starbird) presents […]
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Kip Tindell, CEO of the Container Store, on recognizing a great idea.
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Where should NASA go to look for intelligent life on Mars? To get to the truth, journalists say follow the money. Astronomers say follow the water. Dr. Michio Kaku says […]
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Howard Dean: Any politician who tells the American people there aren’t going to be any sacrifices for everybody is a liar and I do not want the sacrifices to be […]
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Howard Dean’s most faithful aide on the secret to wowing your boss.
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Science writer Jesse Bering says that not only do we visualize erotic scenes when we’re masturbating, “but we also use our imagination in this way when we’re actually having sex […]
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