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Charles Mrray designed this quiz to have a salutary effect on bringing to people’s attention the degree to which they live in a bubble that seals them off from an […]
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Penn Jillette: I don’t think Daniel Kahneman knew he was writing a magic book. I don’t think he knew he was writing about Celebrity Apprentice. But he might have.
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Creating full citizenship isn’t about getting people from 0 to 60. It’s about everything in between. If 60 is voting and most people are at 10, Rishi Jaitly says it […]
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Cynthia Breazeal showcases “an idea in its formation,” that is, providing children in remote areas with tablets and learning apps that could enable them to teach themselves how to read.
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What are the things that I want to remember and that I want to be able to access later on and focus on remembering how to access them? And then […]
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Don’t just look at the short term numbers, says business turnaround expert Fred Hassan. Success starts at the level of company culture.
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David Gergen, Lisa New and Chris Matthews weigh in on the question of America’s Exceptionalism.
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Sharing might be the defining characteristic of being human. We are also very good at learning from others. The problem, however, is that we lack the proper filters and are […]
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Just as you wouldn’t want to pick a baseball player for your team without an adequate record of past performance, you wouldn’t want to pick a leader by taking a […]
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There are a lot single people who are very happy. Moreover, the scientific literature tells us that if you have not found a partner, there’s a lot of hope for […]
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Meeting big, audacious, ambitious goals requires taking multiple steps in reasoning, not just thinking from point A to point B.
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If you’re worried about the fact that you’re in a relationship with a psychopath, what can you do about that? What might be some certain things to look out for?
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Abraham Lincoln’s humility comes from a lot of places, but it probably starts with his sense of empathy.
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Recently appointed director of the venerable Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell is trying to make classical music accessible to younger audiences without dumbing it down.
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Bell describes Beethoven’s 4th and 7th symphonies as joyful music, in contrast to the cliché of the composer as primarily gloomy and intense.
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In some ways we’re doing better than science fiction films like 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted we would.
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Over-parenting involves doing what your child can do, can almost do and confusing your child’s needs with your own.
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How can you create a universe from nothing? Well if you calculate the total matter of the universe it is positive. If you calculate the total energy of the universe […]
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One of the unfinished pieces of business from the Cold War is the question of the unification of the Korean Peninsula.
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It’s been more than ten years since the folks at Goldman Sachs dubbed Brazil, Russia, India, and China the BRIC countries, and lately other countries have been trying to glom […]