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How choosing Stoic acceptance — not dour resignation — galvanized great leaders from Thomas Edison to Phil Jackson and Tony Hawk.
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Many of us wake up each morning with something Oliver Burkeman calls “productivity debt.” The bestselling author and journalist explains this term as “a sense that you've got to work […]
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After decades of drug and alcohol abuse, the chef and television personality labeled himself as an ‘irredeemable human being.’ Everything changed when he found the courage to ask for help.
Unlikely Collaborators
Seeking life beyond the Solar System, we first look to the closest star systems with Earth-like planets. Here's why that's not good enough.
Sahil Bloom explores why wealth isn’t just about money, but about knowing which type of wealth matters most in each season of life.
Our Moon is full of craters, basins, and ancient lava flows. But two large lunar Grand Canyons have the same origin: a single, giant impact.
Major League Baseball and Ivy League research confirm that tackling well-being is hard work — but well worth the effort.
Life may have arisen far earlier — and more rapidly — than previously thought.
Upskilling all managers and leaders is imperative if we are to solve the global challenge of poor management.
There are only four super star clusters in all the Local Group: rarities today. Here's what the youngest, the just-discovered N79, shows us.
If humanity lives in an otherwise barren Universe, we'll have to forge philosophy that fills the void.
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“I'm here to argue that AI is not going to cause a rise in unemployment. I think it's actually increased employment in the United States, not decreased it.”
Here in our Universe, both normal and dark matter can be measured astrophysically. But only normal matter can collapse. Why is that?
"It’s only natural for us to get America back," quipped Kim Kielsen, former prime minister of Greenland, in 2019.
Do we really need to be religious to run a society well?
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
With a flurry of threats to scientists, science funding, and health policy, the USA now faces a crisis reminiscent of Soviet-era Lysenkoism.
Restaurateur Will Guidara explains why it’s not just what you do, but how you make people feel that leads to successful ventures.
Today's pseudoscience-ridden wellness industry owes a great debt to its forefathers.
First discovered in the mid-1960s, no cosmic signal has taught us more about the Universe, or spurred more controversy, than the CMB.