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Sometimes the best strategy is to think completely outside the box. Or not have a strategy at all.
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History is littered with thousands of things that tried to appeal to everyone and yet failed miserably. If you want true success, try to appeal to a core group.
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Getting your vote to where it matters can be harder and more corrupt than it should be. Could blockchain technology build a better system and rebuild people’s trust?
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“There’s actually a science to why stories matter. So when we hear a good story as human beings our brain lights up. It illuminates the city of our minds…It makes us care. It builds relationships.”
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Want to tax corporations without scaring them off, outsmart a calculating kid, or get rid of the world’s nuclear warheads? Think like a game theorist.
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Are you living at just 40% of your potential? Here’s how to tap into your inner Navy SEAL.
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There have been some interesting “sightings” in the news these days.
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Why do you check your phone 150 times a day? Is it a conscious choice, or have the attention merchants gotten into your head?
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What’s changed since Anita Hill took on Clarence Thomas in 1991? The power of the accuser.
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This holiday season, ask the questions you don’t know the answer to.
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History shows us why we can’t trust centralized power. So what can we trust?
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Artificial Intelligence has come a long way in a short time. So at what point will it be able to emulate the great artists and writers of our time?
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The acting giant talks about how those in the corporate and business worlds could take a page from artists… simply by embracing a reward system not rooted in hard metrics.
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Author, speaker, and public intellectual Richard Dawkins is a first-class debater on subjects as grand and reaching as the very existence (or lack thereof) of a master creator. But he’s got a simple yet highly effective technique to win people over to see his point of view. Find out what it is right here.
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Here’s why your brain’s biases are a win for fake news, and a pay day for Facebook.
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The agricultural revolution was one of the best things to happen to the human species, right? Wrong.
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Middle America is tired of those latte-sipping liberals and their “elite media” hanging out in New York City, but Ariel Levy makes the case that Americans aren’t as different from one another as they’d like to think.
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The origin of the word ‘respect’ comes from the Latin verb ‘respicere’, which means to take another look back at something or someone. Here’s how to restore respect after conflict.
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Twenty years ago, it would have been a difficult proposition to ask the University of Mississippi to take down all the confederate flags on campus. But an angry chancellor, a powerful football coach, and a former alumni highly skilled at public relations all played their part to rid the campus of its turbulent historical reminders.
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Nobody foresaw that a science-fiction story about a moisture farmer’s adventure with a rag-tag group of interstellar ne’er-do-wells would break box-office records for 40 years and redefine American storytelling. But this Harvard Law professor has a few ideas why it’s stuck around.
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How did Lego survive a near-total financial ruin? Why is Lyft way more popular that Uber amongst drivers? And how did Marvel gain a second wind some 60 years after it was founded?
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What are the true motivations of people who cheat, and why do even happy spouses do it?
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Documentary offers a surprisingly simple solution to improving medical care.
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There are a lot of tough conversations that stand between where America is now and “liberty and justice for all,” says Van Jones.
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Stereotyping isn’t about “bad people doing bad things.” It’s about our subconscious biases, and how they sneak into organizational structures.
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Do we really need to spend such a mind-bogglingly huge amount of money on surveilling the world (and the American taxpayers) to find a terrorist-needle in a global-haystack?
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Being bored is great. It’s where we come up with our best ideas, and how we become better people by being able to mentally solve our biggest personal problems. So why are we destroying boredom with our phones?
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Edward Witten is a genius among geniuses.
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