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Scientists had to consider how primates think in order to develop the right experiments to study them.

A conversation with the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University.

Jere Van Dyk, who was imprisoned by the Taliban for 45 days, thinks journalists need to better explain that the U.S. is partially responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan.

Jere Van Dyk, who was imprisoned by the Taliban for 45 days, offers some cautionary advice to the new commander of the Afghanistan War.

Alan Abramowitz is the Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory, and a renowned expert on national politics and elections. His expertise includes election forecasting models, party realignment in the […]

Can we shift away from the notion of a people-based tax in this era of outsourcing and offshoring?

A soup-to-nuts example of how a municipality can adopt sustainable practices in a way that’s ultimately beneficial for the bottom line.

Organizations need to reconsider all of the waste and energy consumption associated with their business—while still keeping profits in mind.

A conversation with the CEO of Hara Software.

It’s essential that several pieces click into place for the country to become the next big superpower, but its future looks bright.

The Legg Mason investment strategist has four key tips for starting investors.

What’s going on around you is influencing your daily decisions much more than you realize.

The best investors tend to be more reserved, more independent, and less attuned to what other people are doing.

When it comes to investing advice, media pundits tend to amplify both optimism and pessimism.

Everybody knows that outcomes are a combination of skill and luck, but we tend not to be very good at understanding the relative contributions of the two.

We like to follow a bullish or bearish trend. But the best investors sell when everyone’s buying, and buy when everyone’s selling.

A conversation with the Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management.

The best communication happens naturally amongst friends, so Zappos encourages employees to spend time together outside of the office.

Hsieh says he hires and fires people based on whether they fit with his company’s core values—independent of their potential value or job performance.

“Would I want to hang out with these people if we weren’t forced to work together?” is a guiding barometer for the Zappos CEO.

A conversation with the CEO of Zappos

A conversation with the World Chess Champion, 1975-1985.

Judith Light talks about a role she believes isn’t the highlight of her career is its own kind of “coming out.”

“Any time a person comes out, it displays someone’s courage and bravery,” says the actress. Standing up and saying that you are different is “remarkable and terrifying.”

The difference between nailing a scene and turning in a mediocre performance is all about “being present in the moment” while “really being outside of yourself.”

Not getting the roles that she wanted right out of school sparked a personal crisis for Judith Light. It took a job as a soap opera understudy to launch her […]

A conversation with the actor and activist

If women ran the world, different things would be engineered and invented. Unfortunately, many female scientists get sidetracked.

From our leakage radiation, an alien would be able to tell quite a bit about the planet, including the length of our day, the size of the planet, and even […]

The potential detection of signals from outer space raises many questions. What’s the overarching plan? Who would speak on behalf of our planet? What would they say?