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Psychologist and Author Dan Ariely says Zappos’ policy of offering potential customer service employees $3000 not to take the job is money well spent.
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“There’s a reason why we are attracted to certain people,” says Michio Kaku. Evolution has slowed down, but it hasn’t stopped.
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Ray Kurzweil has developed six epochs for stages in the evolution of information.
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The artist’s business plan is simple, says singer/novelist Josh Ritter – you just commit to putting your work in front of as many people as possible.
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Penn Jillette answers Big Thinker Adam Lee’s question about how he reconciles two world views: his atheism with his libertarianism.
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Shawn O’Connor gives tips on how to be a better test-taker.
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Shawn O’Connor takes on the collective myth you have just a certain ability to get a certain number on this test and that that cannot be changed.
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In his Floating University lecture, Saul Levmore uses the housing bubble to describe TKTK
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In this selection from his Floating University lecture, Saul Levmore describes why economics is relevant. Sure, economics is about making money. But it’s really about human behavior in general, he […]
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The world’s most expensive and complex ground-based telescope Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) offers unique views of deep space, including images of two galaxies colliding.
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Steve Jobs, former chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, told Stanford University graduates to pursue their life dreams as well as setbacks.
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According to John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, just as a dollop of yogurt introduced into a jug of milk will transform the whole jug, a star employee or […]
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Tara Sophia Mohr explains how we can empower girls to silence their inner critic.
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According to psychologist Dan Ariely, Google’s policy of giving employees free reign over 20% of their work week – one full day out of five – makes for happier, more […]
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Do digital media have any sweeping, unique pleasure-giving qualities? David J. Linden, Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the effect is […]
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Would you choose the state of equality and justice envisioned by John Rawls or the state of radical individual liberty envisioned by Robert Nozick?
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In this selection from his Floating University lecture, Professor Steven Pinker deduces the nature of language acquisition by examining the generative use of grammar in children.
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In this clip from our recent interview, Kevin recalls an incident back in 1981 when he was seventeen: He and a phone-phreaker buddy decide to sneak into Pacific Telephone’s central […]
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A rarity in the era of the rockstar CEO, Fred Hassan’s success seems to be more attributable to his skill at putting out fires than igniting them.
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It’s simply not inspiring to tell a millennial, “You’re coming to our company. You know what our company’s goal is? To maximize shareholder value,” says Roger Martin, Dean of the […]
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