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The best career advice that you are not getting? Financial feminist and Wall Street powerhouse Sallie Krawcheck delivers.
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The World Science Festival just wrapped earlier this month. Here’s 4 top World Science Festival sessions that ORBITER recommends.
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The clash of tectonic plates beneath us is just part of life on Earth—unless, of course, there is human interference like in the American Midwest.
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If people who experience near-death experiences have less fear of death, could an out-of-body experience through virtual simulation lead to the same result?
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Having trouble learning? Take a break and your brain will process the information. You’ll learn better and faster.
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Is all life on Earth bound together by mathematics?
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It’s all in your mind. Really. Everything bad in the world might be coming from one particular part of the human brain.
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Natural selection has left us with a world of optimists—is this healthy?
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“We don’t notice one another nearly as much as we think we do,” says Alan Alda. Here’s how the actor inspired a scientific study on empathy.
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There’s something all of us—physicists included—are getting wrong about dark matter, says Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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This week, Bill Nye tackles one of the most complicated hypotheticals of all time.
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We tell Google things we wouldn’t tell our loved ones, or even our own doctors.
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Should scientists and the more technological minded be given more power in a capitalist world?
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Russian hacking is changing the game in global warfare by taking the battlefield to the internet, where Facebook is the front line.
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Can democracy remain vibrant if the public, and especially children, don’t have the tools to distinguish sense from nonsense?
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Career global security expert Richard Clarke identifies three potential game changing events that could adversely affect the wellbeing of humanity itself.
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Communication is more than a string of words that gets across static information. The language we use to converse does more than give facts—it can actually offer understanding.
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Is the idea of “choice” real or is choice just an idea in our heads? Are our brains inventing our own answers before we’ve even thought them through? The answer might surprise you.
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Mirriam Webster’s Kory Stamper explains just how words end up making the jump from the popular vernacular to the dictionary.
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There’s a good chance that as you’re reading this you’re somewhat unconscious. Just how much is your brain not telling you? Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano peeks behind the curtain of your own brain.
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Is it crazy to think that we could one day live forever? Well, yes. Yes it is. But with a few changes to our surroundings, British scientist Geoffrey West thinks that we could perhaps double our lifespan.
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Should companies provide a ‘Made In an American Prison’ label if the product is made in an American jail?
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The finance sector often lives up to its bad reputation, but here’s how a 2000-year-old piece of wisdom can help rehabilitate the way people and corporations think about money.
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As the Internet takes over from broadcast television, we find ourselves in a new psychological ecosystem—and people’s ability or failure to adapt explains the last two years of American politics.
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High school junior Caitlin is worried. She wants to be a scientist but is struggling with it a little bit in school—is there hope for her career?
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AI is capable of self-reproduction—should humans be worried?
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How we remember time is vastly different to how we experience it, says neuroscientist Dean Buonomano.
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Is our existence base reality—or are we pawns in a matrix? Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach explains how we might be able to tell.
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Not long ago, most people would probably judge how trustworthy you were based entirely on your physical appearance. Today, we know that kind of thinking is a dangerous pseudoscience.
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Optimistic people tend to live longer than pessimistic people. That’s true whether you’re rich or poor, young or old, and no matter your race, says sociologist William Magee.
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