Interviewing over Skype can be incredibly stressful, especially if you haven't prepared correctly. The key to nailing the new job is in how you diligently arrange everything can control before the interview starts. 

The label “rational” is being used illogically. Economists (even the better behavioural kind) often misapply it, ignoring Shakespeare’s wisdom (he understood human nature better) and our evolved relational rationality. 1. […]

I was recently (virtually) introduced to Simon de la Rouviere after reading his recent article, "In the Future, Everyone Will Have Their Own Cryptocurrency." Simon makes a bold prediction: personal cryptocurrencies […]

Wyoming and Colorado are not the only cartographic twins

Canadian researchers have identified the part of the brain that links motor learning with the need for a full night's sleep. This is why dancers, actors, and musicians are at their best at full rest.

The Defender is billed as a smart personal protection device. Not only will it photograph an assault, it sends that photo to the authorities.

The top 10 pictures from a Russian cosmonaut you’ve never heard of. Image credit: NASA, Space Shuttle Atlantis, during mission STS-132. “We came all this way to explore the Moon, […]

We all know what advice we'd give our teenage selves now, given what we've learned. But what advice can the teenage you provide now?

Don't panic if you've lost your phone. Most devices have built-in retrieval features. Other strategies and approaches can help you get yours back in a flash.

Economist Daniel Altman acknowledges that the student loan industry in the United States is a disaster. The obvious solution of government intervention by way of forgiveness could make things even […]

I’m lucky to spend a couple weeks each August up at Moosehead Lake in Maine, where paved roads and power lines disappear and an endless blanket of rich green forests […]

Pro tip for incoming college freshmen: many, many people are going to try and nickel and dime you over the next four years. Don't let the student bookstore rob you blind.

Make sure before you press the red button that you're using the best device or app and are well-versed on consent.

Twitter is experimenting with ways to infuse your feed with "relevant content" by people you don't follow. Is this the end of Twitter as a democratic platform?

Four years ago a paper by Dan Sperber published in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology coined the term: The Guru Effect - the tendency for people to "judge profound […]

Technology in the classroom is an often talked about goal that has shown few results to date. But that may change as certain high school students in Houston begin receiving artificially intelligent digital textbooks.

The potency of the omega-3 vitamin, long thought to be the source of this beneficial effect, is now in doubt...

How a fundamental but unstable particle might be our first window into particle physics beyond the Standard Model. Image credit: Muon g-2 magnet, courtesy of Fermilab. “You suddenly realize that […]

It may appear quite simple and easy, but the moment one sits down to practice, one quickly realizes that it is a difficult art. It would be hard to think […]

An assumption we often make about life's choices is that the larger the choice, the more deliberation is needed to arrive at the best plan of action. This isn't always the case, however.