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Miki Agrawal—the entrepreneur behind Thinx, Tushy, and Wild—explains how to turn your #1 gripe into an industry-disrupting idea.
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Will the next wave of tech prioritize happiness over profit, or will app designers continue to rely on addictive habits?
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We’ve known for 2,000 years that the Earth is round. Here are three observable proofs that can instantly debunk flat-Earth theory.
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What would it be like to live in the body of someone else? With VR, now you can actually find out.
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Max Tegmark says we’re smart enough to make it. But are we wise enough?
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Democrats are wondering how to beat Trump. The only way might be to play his game.
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By being someone else, and seeing and discovering the world through the eyes of other people, that can only increase our empathy… and decrease our own egocentric view of the world.
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How does Vladimir Putin see the world? To understand how he controls Russia and pushes his agenda overseas, look to the works of 20th-century fascist philosopher Ivan Ilyin.
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When it comes to creating minds, cognitive scientist Joscha Bach explains where we are with artificial intelligence, and where we need to be.
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Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.
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Podcast host Robert Wright’s lively conversation with the Harvard psychologist.
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Why are Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg sparring about the threat of A.I. when they’re both right? Of course, one is more right than the other, says Michio Kaku.
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What is the danger in creating something smarter than you? You can’t control it, and pretty soon it could control you.
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How do bankers create money? Here’s your incredibly frustrating answer: they just create money.
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Your mother most likely went through a lot to raise you when you were a baby… including getting some of the worst sleep of her life.
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What is the best piece of advice Mia Farrow ever gave her son? We’ve got the answer.
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From quarterbacks in the NFL to retail staff at Walmart, virtual reality trains you to be the best at whatever it is you do.
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North Korea has nothing to lose in face-to-face diplomatic talks. Can the same be said of the U.S.?
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Boaty McBoatface could have been a billion-dollar brand that re-invigorated science education, but now its epic failure is a lesson for the rest of us.
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Zoologist Lucy Cooke explains evolution’s answer to non-consensual sex among spotted hyenas: an eight-inch pseudo-penis for all the ladies.
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Being real at the office? Some workplaces would frown at the idea, but Amway embraces it (and is all the better for it).
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Artificial intelligence has the capability to far surpass our intelligence in a relatively short period of time, but we have to lay the right groundwork now while we still can.
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Crowdsourcing as an idea isn’t anything new, says historian and sex researcher Alice Dreger. She tells us about the history of public gathering of information from the medieval era to today.
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Getting feedback is hard. Giving feedback is even harder. Here’s how to do it properly and empower your team.
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Predicting the future is about to become a whole lot cheaper. Here’s how economists look at artificial intelligence.
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Victim status has become a competition, and it’s ruining our ability to solve the problems we face together.
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Where do your beliefs come from? It turns out evolution is behind every religion in the world.
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Maternal leave is a big deal. Increasingly, studies are finding that paternal leave is equally important.
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Why have some conspiracy theories been pushed back into the public? Because when you try to force them out of the mainstream, they’ll find a wider audience on the fringes.
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Don’t take the Bible so seriously, says religious scholar and fully interesting guy Rob Bell.
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