Ever feel powerless to help a cause you believe in because its troubles are a great distance away? Just because you're far from the Brazilian rainforest or the polar ice caps or Mt. Everest doesn't mean you can't play an important role in protecting those places.

The Tesla CEO's tweets are capable of generating hashtags, memes, and even temporary spikes in the price of company shares. 

Trolling isn't just the actions of ornery black sheep on the web. Jonathan Zittrain explains that it's a set of behaviors due to be studied more intently in the coming years.

Automation is on the rise in areas previously regarded as beyond the reach of machines.

Redesigning your office space can measurably improve morale as well as the flow of creative ideas, but it doesn't have to cost a fortune.

Your IQ wasn't set at birth. Turns out, intelligence is quite malleable. Genes play a role in influencing your intelligence, but not as much as your upbringing.

Entrepreneur Peter H. Diamandis discusses his work with the new company Human Longevity Inc., which seeks to extend the healthy human lifespan.

"The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another."

Habits play a major role in determining our levels of happiness, explains best-selling author Gretchen Rubin.

Lightning: it isn’t just for stormclouds. “If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can […]

Letting employees decorate their workspaces plays an important role in building relationships within the company — without them there aren't any icebreakers.

LifePaint is motivated by a grim statistic — every year in the UK over 19,000 cyclists are involved in accidents.

Online learning has set the stage for the start of democratized education, but some argue that total equality is still a long way off.

If you ever loved something most people didn’t understand, you’ll get it. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a […]

When should you take time to brainstorm? When you're fatigued. The creative spark tends to hit when your brain is tired and unable to filter those weird ideas.

Nonconformists have a certain allure that attract both men and women, according to a recent study, but it has its limits.

Clickbait and viral content may be fascinating or annoying depending on your perspective as an e-consumer, but to internet researchers the phenomenon is the stuff of scientific wonder.

Personal and professional growth should not be treated as a chore. Instead, derive joy from your betterment efforts by treating them as play.

Could a strong enough tether save you? Or is your fate inevitable? “Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”–Alfred A. Montapert Everyone is free to […]

Like L. Ron Hubbard knew, the veneer of celebrity casts such a bright light that the details are obscured. Perhaps that’s why we call them "stars." The closer you get, the harder to observe the shadows being cast.