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The smart workplace assuages the fears of its employees by offering the sorts of benefits that retain the best talent.
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What happens when an entire classroom participates in #TuesdaysWithBill? Bill dishes out some useful live advice.
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The Paradox of Choice: The more choices a person has, the less satisfied the person is with any of the choices. Technology, despite its best intentions, exacerbates this paradox. It also succeeds in disconnecting us while it seeks to connect us.
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Determining what defines a happy life is more difficult today than it was for previous generations. Designer Ayse Birsel demonstrates how a shift in perspective can help bridge this newfound difficulty.
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Much of what we assume is true about female sexuality stems from spurious research from the 1990s.
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Now and then we’ve all thought we heard someone calling our name, or noticed a strange coincidence. But for people with schizophrenia, these can take on a much more nefarious quality. Dr. Vikaas Sohal walks us through what it feels like to be inside a schizophrenic brain.
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“There’s no more central message of psychology than the fact that most of what goes on in our heads we have no access to.”
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The “Food Lab” author runs through several examples of kitchen conventional wisdom that aren’t really steeped in wisdom.
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The Ethiopian lawyer and women’s rights activist discusses the matter-of-fact way too many patriarchal men treat rape.
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William wants to have kids someday. William has cystic fibrosis, an inheritable disease. How should he approach this dilemma?
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Left-right, up-down, back-forth: These are the dimensional directions we’re able to perceive. Theoretical physics posits that additional dimensions could exist beyond our perceptive reach.
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The Pro Football Hall of Famer knows a lot about suppressing the defeatist attitudes that keep you from enjoying your accomplishments.
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What’s the best way to help after a natural disaster or school shooting? Mass tragedies can take many forms, but in all cases, extreme needs follow.
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It’s not about making poor choices, says Mary Bassett. It’s about the fact that people in the hardest hit neighborhoods (like Brownsville, Brooklyn) don’t have enough options to choose from.
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Famous pundits virtually never make falsifiable forecasts.
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It’s time for companies to rethink how they engage with their employees.
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Diversity is key to building a successful organization. Teaching yourself to shed your subconscious inhibitions to it is the first real step.
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Young Aaron asks the Science Guy about the uncountable lengths of space. Bill responds with a challenge.
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Understanding the patterns of one’s mental illness and creating an action plan can help individuals & families manage – and even prevent – a crisis.
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Those who work for nonprofits and NGOs can avoid mental exhaustion by realizing they’re not Superman.
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The media treated the 10-year anniversary of Katrina with reverence. They should have been hard at work exposing the ugliness that still remains.
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Author Junot Díaz reminds us why fiction isn’t just “nice to have.”
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Millennials are already shifting ideas of what is and isn’t an acceptable or attractive company culture.
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The key to effective time management is to maintain a level of organization that allows you to dedicate less and less neural resources to running your life.
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“Pay attention to people’s lives,” explains the acclaimed author. Then don’t be afraid to rewrite and edit and re-edit and re-rewrite and so on.
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Such a question assumes we’d be able to contact aliens should we find them. Bill’s not entirely sure we’ll be able to.
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It wasn’t until 1973 that the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder. The recency of that decision still affects the LGBT community today.
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How much income is too much? The former Minnesota governor rallies for the living wage and against the greed at the core of income inequality.
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“Right now all of our eggs are in one basket and the basket is called Earth.”
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You know Shaquille O’Neal the basketball player. Do you know the Shaquille O’Neal who has both an MBA and an Ed.D?
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