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So anyone who's ever really thought about love knows that our techno-liberated world is pretty weak on talking about love and death. We're either too vulgar or too vague. It's not […]
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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?
Kevin Dutton walks through the characteristics of psychopathy, and how these behaviors play out in relationships.
How do we evaluate leaders? Would the 13th Amendment have passed without Lincoln's leadership? Would the U.S. have joined the League of Nations had it not been for the stubbornness of Wilson?
On Tuesday night at 9:00 EST, President Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union address, the first of his second term. Coming just a few weeks on the […]
A new National Intelligence Estimate report says that China is the primary culprit behind "massive, sustained" hacking into systems affecting a wide range of industries.
The demo video shows Raytheon's Riot using social media to "gain an entire snapshot of a person's life...in little more than a few clicks of a button."
"Pay attention to that alley over there. A gorilla in a clown suit is going to come out of it in a second." If I said that to you, and […]
Beam Inc. is reducing the volume of alcohol in its Maker's Mark brand by 3 percent in order to stretch its dwindling supply.
Lincoln represents the type of leader who knows "he is doing something noble and worthwhile. But the noble quest is far more important than they are."
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson argues that we need to break out of our "A-to-B thinking" in order to bring big, audacious ideas into existence.
For an additional fee (of course), passengers can sit in a "Quiet Zone" that's separated from the rest of economy class by curtains, bathrooms, and softer lighting.
Some time in March a puff of white smoke will rise over St. Peter's Square. Will it signal a Pope from Africa?
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Abraham Lincoln's humility comes from a lot of places, but it probably starts with his sense of empathy.
You run the innovation playbook – a prophetic strategy, a product development obstacle course of a process, a portfolio management radar detection system and a wide array of eccentric creativity […]
Chances are your company is one of the many taking a “wait and see” approach to one or more business issues right now. The approach plays out like this: “Should […]
“Ain't got no rest in my slumbers/ Ain't got no feelings to bruise/ Ain't got no telephone numbers/ I ain't got nothing but the blues,” goes Jazz composer Duke Ellington’s […]
Last Thursday, private vehicles were banned from the Colombian capital's streets. It's one of several attempts to decrease car traffic that have had mixed success.
The country's projected to become the largest film market by 2020, and the effects are already being seen in various aspects of the industry, including investor funding and story choices.
Several high-profile projects that aim to replicate the processes of the human brain have recently received enormous grants. Still, completing the projects is not the ultimate goal, say researchers.