All Videos — March 17, 2011

Advice to Leaders During Crises

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Leaders under pressure—be it from financial crisis or nuclear disaster—often fall prey to the same mistakes. What can Japan’s leadership learn from blunders made during the Great Recession?

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Two people sit on a deck at night, illuminated by red light, looking up at a star-filled sky with mountains silhouetted in the background.

Smart Skills

The meaning of life isn’t a puzzle to solve

It’s something to wrestle and live with, says behavioral scientist Arthur Brooks.

Book cover for "The Generalist Advantage" by Mansoor Soomro, PhD, next to text reading "an excerpt from," all set against a light green background—highlighting the value of generalist superpowers.

Business

The 6 superpowers of generalists: Leadership gold dust

From Apple to Airbnb to OpenAI the generalist mindset has been an invaluable source of advantage — and we can all learn from these successes.

A visual simulation of two objects orbiting and merging, distorting a red-orange grid representing spacetime—illustrating gravitational waves once thought to be the worst prediction in science.

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: Can we fix the worst prediction in all of science?

The measured value of the cosmological constant is 120 orders of magnitude smaller than what’s predicted. How can this paradox be resolved?

Two colorful, semi-transparent spheres, one blue and one red, represent a possible top quark bound state, toponium, surrounded by small particles inside a cloudy, circular enclosure.

Starts With A Bang

The top quark isn’t a loner after all: “toponium” is real!

Can the top quark, the shortest-lived particle of all, bind with anything else? Yes it can! New results at the LHC demonstrate toponium exists.

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: Could the CMB arise from galaxies, not the Big Bang?

The CMB has long been considered the Big Bang’s “smoking gun” evidence. But after what JWST saw, might it come from early galaxies instead?

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Guest Thinkers

American Sample Audience Mistake Aljazeera English TV For CNN!

With thanks to Alex Weprin who on March 17, 2011 filed a fascinating report based on a study which has been posted in the journal Arab Media & Society. The […]