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Management expert Daniel Pink on how to influence others by asking the right questions.
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." – Nicholas Murray Butler
Nearly every society has vastly more wealth today than ever before. So why doesn't the world's burgeoning wealth afford its citizens more leisure time?
The FBI's zero-tolerance drug use policy for new hires is costing the Bureau dearly, according to FBI Director James B Comey, who is having trouble staffing the 2,000 posts of a newly-created cybercrime unit.
TAIPEI/TOKYO – What is this East-Asian obsession with blades and stabbings that has perverted these otherwise harmonious quarters of Confucian legacy? The knife seems to be the preferred device of […]
New polling data out of Gallup has found that attending an elite university doesn't result in a happier or more productive graduate.
Physicists at the University of Cambridge have found a theoretical foundation for the existence of wormholes, which are tubes that connect two different points in space-time.
Elections for the European Parliament have been held every five years since 1979, but none have been as crucial as this 8th edition, taking place from 22 to 25 May. […]
Nobody goes to a baseball game to watch the umpires, so why would someone go to a museum to see an exhibition dedicated to an art critic—one of those arbiters […]
Dickson Despommier on how vertical farming can help us meet the challenges of feeding a growing global population.
A comet that’s never crossed Earth’s orbit might lead to the most spectacular sky show in years! “I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, […]
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Dickson Despommier on how vertical farming can help us meet the challenges of feeding a growing global population.
The variability of weather and the natural limitations on land use present problems for food growers, not to mention pests that can decimate crop yields.
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Jeremy Rifkin on the coming revolution of the energy internet.
There is now a preventative treatment against HIV for those exposed to higher-than-normal levels of risk, such as individuals with HIV-positive partners or those who inject illicit drugs and share equipment.
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Neurobiologist James Fallon on the psychopathic brain.
The common theme that binds Stevens' proposed amendments is his belief in the right of self-governance.
How should small-business owners deal with the Affordable Care Act? Well, I believe in doing the math – and I think that’s a wonderful initial step. Run the numbers. See […]
Crowdfunding relies on building online communities around projects, but what can it do for physical, local communities? Neighborhoods are the original social networks, according to Henry Grabar in a recent […]
Coal is essential for creating steel, cement, and agricultural fertilizer, i.e. the pillars of modern society.