"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done." -Amelia Earhart For more on the legendary aviator: -Earhart's National Geographicaccount of the 1935 trek from Honolulu to the California […]

"In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed." -Sir Thomas More, from Utopia (1515) Thomas More's utopian vision […]

Big decisions made now can open up future paths toward working again with a past employer. This means that, in one respect, you can be like LeBron James.

Does social media and the rising popularity of personal gadgets make people more selfish? Max Ogles argues that selflessness is still thriving thanks in part to a number of apps focused on charitable giving.

The human capacity for reason may be fragile and partial but it is not belied by studies in which large percentages of subjects answer a few tricky questions incorrectly.

It may not be surprising that links exist between the amount of debt you're in and how often you feel ill. Enacting a plan for better living -- both with regard to health and finance -- isn't as hard as you think.

Short for "Your Life, Only Better," Yolobe is a new social networking service that connects ambitious high schoolers to professional opportunities.

Layli Miller-Muro shares with us how she began the Tahirih Justice Center, an organization dedicated to helping women who seek political asylum due to gender-based persecution (http://www.tahirih.org/). Miller-Muro is the […]

Kay Koplovitz, founder of the USA Networks, talks about the potential that crowdfunding has to give opportunities to more investors.

Neuroscientist James Fallon discusses how he came to discover (and how he's learned to live with) the fact that he's a borderline psychopath.

Stephen Dubner talks about the importance of thinking small in order to tackle some of the world's biggest problems piece by piece. Dubner is the co-author of Think Like a […]

Bill Nye (The Science Guy!) describes the possibility of discovering life on Europa, arguing that we might make such a discovery in as little as 20 or 30 years. Bill is the CEO of the Planetary Society (http://planetary.org/).

Author and economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett emphasizes the important role "executive presence" plays as you climb the career ladder.

Harvard Business School Professor Max Bazerman discuses how important it is to not just to be able to focus, but to be a good noticer as well. Bazerman is the […]

LAGUNA BEACH – The world has changed considerably since political leaders from the 44 Allied countries met in 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to create the institutional framework for […]

The business world today bears little resemblance to that of 40-50 years ago. Yet for some reason many companies still clutch to the archaic dogmas of strategy developed during that […]

Having recently visited LA I was imagining driving on the early freeways. Few other cars on the road, low gas prices, and just a smooth and relaxing way to quickly […]

An office apology is not like a personal apology. Saying "sorry" to a co-worker involves navigating the invisible tensions of office politics.

In an earlier article, I talked about the fact that we learn much better when we learn with our entire body - all of our senses. I called this “embodied […]

With all the matter-and-energy so close together and so dense at the moment of the Big Bang, why didn’t it recollapse? Image credit: Mark A. Garlick / University of Warwick. […]