Gravity is a hard force to overcome, but some worlds get an unlikely assist that makes it all too easy. “Some prophecies are self-fulfillingBut I’ve had to work for all of […]

A new study from the Columbia Business School reveals that workers are more or less oblivious of how colleagues perceive their levels of assertiveness. The authors suggest strategies to help boost self-awareness in the office.

I’m all about high risk investments. Most of my money is held shorting pork belly futures. But I recently made some space to invest in the future brand value of […]

As Americans prepare to shoot off fireworks on the Fourth of July, let's take a look at how other nations celebrate their holiday equivalents.

The author of a comprehensive book on the history of sunglasses explains.

The East Japan Railway Company hasn’t forgotten customer service.  Foot baths and sake are an available courtesy to customers traveling on their new bullet train two-hour service between Shinjo and […]

Recently I’ve seen a ton of people sharing a provocative Forbes article whose title just about sums it up: “Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid […]

Did you know 20% of startup ideas are thought up on vacation? Taking time off frees up your mind to focus on insight and creativity.

After displaying disappointment in the lack of diversity among its workforce, Google has launched a number of initiatives to help women and minorities become qualified for jobs in the tech sector.

While many of us remain glued to our televisions as we watch team after team get eliminated from the World Cup, those who are in Brazil for the games have […]

The “Lean In” movement that Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg founded with her book of the same name continued a conversation psychologist Matina Horner started 46 years ago. In Horner’s famous study, […]

WASHINGTON, DC – There are two leading views about the world’s financial system. The first, heard mostly from executives at leading global banks and their allies, is that the system […]

NEW HAVEN – In early July, senior US and Chinese officials will gather in Beijing for the sixth Strategic and Economic Dialogue. With bilateral frictions mounting on a number of […]

The quantum nature of the Universe ruins everything. “What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” –Werner Heisenberg When you think about the […]

Near the constellation Coma Berenices, some 63 million light-years away, is NGC 4651, a spiral galaxy about the size of our Milky Way. Extending 100 thousand light-years past its galactic […]

"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured." – Dean Acheson

"Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." – Jules Henri Poincare

"I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose." – John F. Kennedy

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." – Jonas Salk

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." – Anna Freud