If you want to change a culture, what you have to do is try to change everything all at once.  

You have good teachers of all different personality types, all different sizes and shapes.  And so this is an art, this is not a science. 

John Boehner's latest move in the political chess game from Hell has moved us deeper into the fiery pit. Even Dante would be shocked.  When House Republicans were threatening to […]

Often you’ll find yourself having those sleepless nights in Seattle and in other places and it’s only when you are asleep that you aren’t basically stuck with this metronome of worry. 

I would argue that probably there are more people like me who learn through interest-driven learning or through building things than young people who can kind of plan their future and execute against it. 

I think online education has the opportunity to completely blow this thing inside out where everybody has access to really great education. 

When you’re trying to interact with an ecosystem of ideas, intellectual property becomes an encumbrance. 

What’s become clear is that, like romantic love, pregnancy is something that changes the risk and the reward processing circuit of the brain. 

Couples that stay together tend to have very highly correlated levels of oxytocin. 

Construction has begun in San Antonio on what will be the world's first commercial plant in which carbon dioxide captured from the air will be mineralized into baking soda.

Everyone has a unique odor print that is built on your immune system genes and that is one of the things that attracts you to a partner. 

The right to have an active sex life unencumbered by unintended pregnancy is a healthcare issue, but it is so much more than that as well. 

We’ve seen in many countries where they have instituted some quotas that they have been able to bring more women in and that it really has made a big difference in the quality of the decision making position

If I help you get more powerful it doesn’t mean there is less power for me. 

You can learn to argue with yourself. That’s actually how I get a lot of my thinking done. 

For whatever reason being in nature helps people become better at problem solving.

Experts should trust all of their instincts and their common sense in their areas of expertise. The problem comes when non-experts have "common sense opinion" that really is just coming out of nowhere. 

Thanks to the government shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration can't fully check imported foods for things that could make us sick. This includes half the fruit, a fifth of the vegetables, and almost all of the seafood.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to create food storage containers and other plastic items, on Saturn's largest moon. It's the first time this chemical has been found anywhere outside of Earth.

Today, many worry that the U.S. has lost its edge not just in space but in terms of being a nation of innovators. So what will it take to wake the country up?