The experience of awe — in the form of mountains, canyons and outer space — makes one more apt to believe that the universe was constructed "according to God’s or some other nonhuman entity’s plan."

"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." -Jonathan Swift (born on this day in 1667)

While this robot may provide security, some experts also fear its monitoring capabilities will further erode personal privacy.

Some links for your post-Thanksgiving political edification: At the Atlantic, Philip Mackowiac tells us that "Abraham Lincoln often spoke and dreamed about being assassinated" and asks whether Lincoln would have […]

Here is the big idea, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index Thanksgiving is one of the least stressful and happiest days of the year. Beyond good food – what about […]

We usually reserve the term ‘suffering’ for major traumas: death, divorce, political upheaval, natural disasters. While such tragedies certainly account for much of our personal and social anguish,  the minor […]

The business school image of arriving at an enterprise you’ve taken over all guns blazing and summarily firing people in the elevator and snapping your fingers - business doesn’t work that way at all.   

Ram Charan: Like a coach, you need to show a player how to do it.

Whenever we see examples of ethical or moral failure our knee-jerk reaction is to say "that was a bad person." 

Entrepreneurs are people who have dreams that go far beyond currently available resources. Managers bring discipline. Leaders get organizations to look for new commitments.

Nitin Nohria: The best organizations allow human beings to acquire things that they value, to feel like a part of a team, to make sure the work they are doing is meaningful and that they have ways of defending their interests.

Business at it’s best it can be an engine of the kind of change that we all want to help us live better lives. 

Listening to voices who may be outside the mainstream, actually is a crucial way to succeed in business in the 21st Century. 

Aron Cramer: Business is the creative force in society that can help us find ways to make our lives better. If business doesn’t take up the challenge, I think we all have quite a lot to lose. 

In two years NASA hopes to be growing plants on the moon in an experiment designed to shed light on how life can be sustained in extreme conditions. 

The comet is believed to have broken up and evaporated. 

“If you want to go to a top-tier school…;” It’s a “lower-tier school, but good…” In conversations about college, you often hear rankings-focused comments. It’s difficult to remember the time […]

My ears perked this afternoon when, as we sat down for our holiday meal, my 9-year-old daughter read aloud President Obama's Thanksgiving Proclamation. For the first time since George Washington declared a […]

We’re somehow hard-wired for stories that have a beginning, a middle and end, stories that really teach us about the past. 

The things you really appreciate aren’t the complicated things.   They’re the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.