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For any American parents out there who are struggling with mealtimes, here are a few humble tips from the French.
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Craig Taylor describes how he went about writing Londoners, a collection of incredibly diverse perspectives that collectively express the soul of this modern city.
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As our world becomes increasingly intertwined and amorphous, and American interests involve more external players than before, it is important that we make an effort to immerse ourselves in different […]
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Michio Kaku: I believe in solar power, but there are problems that we have to face, and one of them is low efficiency.
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The “Goldilocks” zone, astronomically speaking, is the habitable zone in a galaxy. That is where astrobiologists believe we can find liquid water and therefore the potential for life as we know it.
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Very often, the most creative things happen in the most implausible places, such as the creation of the first electronic digital computer at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
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In his latest book The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel talks […]
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Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, describes the powerful neurological ‘habit loops’ that underlie much of what people, corporations, and societies do.
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Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet, says that there’s no such thing as information overload – only indiscriminate information overconsumption.
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So you got the psychopath. He has done the crime. We hold him responsible. Now we’re at the decision.
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The trouble with the term “spirituality,” says Buddhist teacher Kadam Morten, is that it doesn’t automatically convey the discipline involved in successful spiritual practice.
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As Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, David Rothkopf oversaw the International Trade Administration under Clinton. Now he’s arguing that the deregulation which occurred during the 1990’s unleashed an […]
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Gloria Feldt is the former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power.
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James Lawrence Powell weighs in on the question of public trust in science.