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MIT professor Robert Langer is a prolific American inventor in medicine. His advice? Don’t follow the money, do meaningful work.
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Are university safe spaces killing intellectual growth?
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Great again? Why America stopped looking forward to the future.
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How the U.N. hatched the most ambitious plan in the world.
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Mindfulness practices can considerably improve the symptoms of depression and anxiety, especially when used with psychotherapy.
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Transformation of big companies is really important if we want to create a system that is fairer, more sustainable and less unequal.
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Meritocracy doesn’t work when some people benefit from the system disproportionately.
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Diplomacy is not always pretty and much of the work of diplomats is misrepresented and politicized but it is absolutely essential to keep the world at peace.
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You are leaking data, and absorbing it, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. But for whose benefit?
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If you want to avoid conversation dead ends, remember to “turn” the conversation more than you “take it,” says entrepreneur and author Andrew Horn.
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Do you know your rights? Hit refresh on your constitutional knowledge!
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You might say members of the Intellectual Dark Web don’t fit in. They might say, “exactly.”
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“I think it’s worth asking yourself, ‘What risks are worth taking?’ And once you’ve decided to take them, change who you are so you can win.”
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We all live by society’s invisible rules but for some groups, these rules are tighter than for others, says psychologist Michele Gelfand.
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People who have meditated for thousands of hours exhibit a remarkable difference in their brainwaves.
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Economic necessity and growing isolation are making some middle-class families try coparenting, explains author Alissa Quart.
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How does Alzheimer’s disease work?
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Sure, some expert-level knowledge is needed if you want to program artificial intelligence. But AI expert Ben Goertzel posits that you also need something that Guns N’ Roses sang about: a lil’ patience.
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Canadian author, psychologist, and intellectual Jordan Peterson has an interesting way of overcoming your self-doubt and anxiety: run right into it. Or, rather, write right into it.
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Is there an arc to history? The danger that we’re in right now in the U.S. is that we’re shifting from a politics of inevitability to a politics of eternity, which affects how we view history, believes historian Timothy Snyder.
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Are modern colleges more interested in their bottom lines than the needs of students? Dan Rosensweig explains why the educational system is ready for disruption.
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If you want to free yourself from the consumer culture and economic constraints, you have to achieve financial independence, says author Vicki Robin.
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What can parents and friends of trans people do to help them beat the dismal mental health and suicide statistics? A lot, says Elijah Nealy.
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Consumerism is sort of like junk food—you can consume all you want but it’s still never going to be filling.
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If you’re getting into the creative arts to get a big paycheck or ego boost: don’t.
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Colonel Chris Hadfield talks to us about the formalities that astronauts have to use, and how it can help us here on earth.
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The beautiful courtship rituals of the Club-winged Manakin leave both the male and the female worse off physically, says evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum.
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