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A NASA-ESA joint discovery confirms held beliefs about the nature of X-ray-emitting winds that emanate from supermassive black holes.
If you think you have a productivity problem, you've probably got an overcommitment problem, says Elizabeth Saunders at the Harvard Business Review.
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The always-entertaining Ruby Wax explains the structure of the brain and how a natural hormone addiction -- particularly to dopamine -- keeps us in a perpetual state of wanting.
Rather than focus on not doing something you shouldn't do, create a new habit to override the old, bad one.
What happened when things were hot enough to spontaneously create matter and antimatter? “It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations […]
A long-lost, completed manuscript belonging to famous children's author Ted Geisel — better known as Dr. Seuss — is scheduled for release in July 2015.
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It's been proven that students taught by a personal tutor perform two standard deviations higher than those in a classroom. Luis von Ahn wants to replicate this effect with technology.
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Carol Sawdye, the Chief Financial Officer of PwC, shares the story of how a startling life event pushed her to become more active in career management.
The vice chairman and chief financial officer of PwC recounts how being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease at 25 pushed her to become more active in pursuit of career goals.
What's more important: competence or confidence? When it comes to being a leader, it's preferable to have both. But if you had to choose just one, confidence is the way to go.
Ever spot a neat typeface you couldn't name? Identifying new and exciting fonts is easy with the correct tools.
Strong psychological reactions — call it the yuck factor — could prevent innovative ideas from maturing and therefore from reaching populations in need.
Far from using Islam as a mere facade for bloodlust the Islamic State’s interpretations of Koranic teachings are fundamental to its mission.
What would happen if you dove into a hole straight through the Earth? “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly […]
Silicon Valley should be alarmed by a new report on the NSA's international spying programs, says The Week's Ryan Cooper. He calls the NSA "the kind of parasite that eventually kills its host."
Female social entrepreneurs pay themselves an average of 29 percent less than their male colleagues, according to new research conducted at the London Business School.
A new wave of authors — think of them as Richard Dawkins' more evolved descendants — is building the case for a "new atheism" that focuses more on what it values than on a blanket rejection of God.
Half a millennium later, you would think the Italian Renaissance could hold no more secrets from us, no “codes” to decipher. And, yet, secrets hiding in plain sight continue to startle modern audiences with the depth and breadth of that amazing era. One of the well-kept secrets, at least until now, was the work of Piero di Cosimo, subject of his first major retrospective, Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Called “a madman” for his personal and artistic quirks by Renaissance chronicler Giorgio Vasari, Piero’s ability to paint in multiple genres all with a dizzying amount of detail may have seemed madness to contemporaries, but appeals to modern audiences conditioned for such visual assaults. There may have been a method to Piero di Cosimo’s madness after all.
We begin our careers full of optimism. We expect to encounter people who are eager to hear what we have to say — as our teachers were in school or […]
New research indicates babies born of teen dads have an increased risk of birth defects.