While guilt is often considered the residue of religious moral codes, people who feel guilty about bad behavior before they even act may make the best friends, mates and employees.

Allowing your mind to drift can help you arrive at creative solutions to vexing problems, reveal what your true priorities are and help you find the peace and quiet needed to learn.

Before reading please click ‘View Entire Story’. My apologies for the length. Over at the New Statesman, Mehdi Hasan wrote an article against abortion. It’s not entirely clear whether Hasan […]

A new book of philosophy, which attempts to reconcile the storied history of psychoanalysis with current neurological research, may have important implications for clinical treatments.

Researchers have found no evidence that we experience Mondays as far worse than other days of the week, yet we persist in believing Mondays are bad due to the nature of the brain.

I'm putting up a post tomorrow about writing and the creative process, but on this crisp fall morning, I've been thinking more about the social aspect of the profession. Although […]

A pair of Canadian researchers have arrived at a new understanding of boredom by examining what the word means to different disciplines. Our age may be the most bored yet.

One year ago I wrote about Facebook becoming the new resume, and this week we got some fresh data from Kaplan to verify the trend. This year over a quarter […]

The pace of urbanization and the development of megacities is causing an untold public health crisis, say international health agencies who study development and pollution. 

In her new romantic comedy, 2 Days in New York, musician, actress, and screenwriter Julie Delpy proclaims, “You know why I don’t believe in the soul? Because the soul would […]

This year's prizes in medicine and chemistry celebrate advancements in genetics that could revolutionize stem cell treatment and create pharmaceutical drugs with far fewer side effects. 

New ways of understanding how tumor cells communicate with each other may yield fresh results in cancer research, according to findings recently released from Johns Hopkins University. 

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have used tracking data from personal mobile phones to map transmission patterns of malaria, enabling more effective prevention schemes. 

Senator Bernie Sanders believes that creating massive cash rewards for drug companies will spur the innovation necessary to make new drugs and bring down the cost of prescriptions.

A panel on technology and sheer courage disrupting autism at the 2012 Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas on Nantucket, MA.

It's never a good strategy in life to simply wait for good things happen to you. That is particularly true in politics, or any other enterprise that requires building a complex organization.

Companies need to be social to be successful. This is a key insight in Maddie Grant's book Humanize: How People-Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World, which argues that the principles underlying social media’s growth can be applied to the way we lead and manage organizations.

On a warm spring night in Paris, May 29, 1913, a riot broke out in the Champs Elysee Theatre during the premier of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” As […]

Researchers at Ohio State University say that the more educated you are, the more likely it is that you are piling up extra debt, and not just when it comes to student loans. This belies the notion that uneducated/undereducated people bear blame for the financial crisis.

A new study says that more colleges are dramatically redefining themselves away from the liberal arts model, with potentially dire consequences for higher education overall.