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Businesses have been adopting more diversity programs since the 1990s, but do they actually work?
A programmer was able to automate his remote job; collecting a full-time paycheck while working for two hours a week. The employer, none the wiser, is satisfied with the completed work. But is it ethical?
In How Emotions Are Made psychology professor Lisa Fedlman Barrett considers the role of emotions in health. 
Is logic an immutable, unchangeable set of rules? Or has it it evolved with time - and will it continue to do so?
The communication techniques required to be a successful leader are frequently synonymous with the communication skills required for a business to be successful. For leaders who want to both deliver […]
Comparing NYC to Luxembourg, by way of iceberg A-68
If the expanding Universe and the cosmic microwave background didn’t convince you, this intricate, spectacular prediction should. “In the current cosmological model, only the three lightest elements were created in […]
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Knowing how to tell a good story is like having mind control. Alan Alda shares some incredible tips for captivating a crowd—or nailing your next job interview.
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss spoke at CSICon 2016 about scientists' attempt to look back in time to the beginning of our universe.
We're at risk of mistaking the music for the piano in using a “jump to the gene” approach to biology. It's time for a more fitting view of genes to evolve. 
A new report highlights the increasing violence faced by environmental activists around the world.
Poop, soup, books — repeat. Who could forget that montage? Here are the key takeaways from the first episode of Game of Thrones season 7, which crashed the HBO website like wildfire taking down the Sept. 
NASA is close to testing its next-generation nuclear fission reactors that would power a Mars colony and propel space exploration.
Nothing has ever come closer than NASA’s Voyager 1, nearly 40 years ago. Last week, all that changed. “Juno will peer hundreds of miles downward into the atmosphere with its microwave […]
Can we ensure robots are greeted into society without people getting that sinking feeling?   
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Haggling over a number? That's a terrible way for people to negotiate, says Harvard International Negotiation Project head honcho Dan Shapiro.
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Populism won two big votes in 2016, while the global worldview suffered... well... "big league". But how did we get to this big discord? And can populism and globalization ever get along?
The four fundamental forces might have been just a single, unified one in the very early Universe. Could that be true? “Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves […]
19% of American soldiers returned from Vietnam addicted to heroin. 95% of them recovered without relapse. How?