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We clever humans have figured out how to artificially activate our pleasure circuits.
Can the study of art history stop looking like ancient history itself? Can it transcend the old approaches and embrace the digital world? As digitized as art history has become […]
We are currently in the midst of one the biggest software and hardware revolutions we’ve ever witnessed. With processing power, storage, and bandwidth increasing exponentially, smart phones and smart tablets […]
1. Nicholas Thompson writes at The New Yorker: There’s something particularly devastating about an attack on a marathon. It’s an epic event in which men and women appear almost superhuman. […]
So how terrorized will we be this time? Maybe terrorized is too strong a word. But how much more worried will we be, how much more uneasy, how much […]
Marlon Brando said one of the best things that I've heard about actors. He said, “An actor is a guy who if you ain’t talking about him he ain’t listening” […]
Unfortunately, it's not because governments are getting along with each other: Deep cuts in American and European spending were balanced out by spending increases in China and Russia.
So claims a new study that asked parents from different countries to describe their children and what they considered the "right way" to rear them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, American parenting styles stand apart.
The robot band cannot replicate the punk attitude of the Ramones or the soulfulness of B.B. King. Yet.
And the parents of children who attend the K-8 school, located in the Ozarks, are mostly happy about it, especially since guns are considered a normal part of life.
The language is odd, but Shakespeare’s insights are really universal.
Success is not about meeting someone else's definition, but reaching your potential by defining success in your own terms.
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Robert Kaplan explains how success is not about meeting someone else's definition of success, but defining it on your own terms.
Choking is honorable failure and panicking is dishonorable failure. It’s important to maintain a line between those two things.
There’s a limit to what the human body can do and how much it can achieve.
There are certain traits that we don’t pay much attention to, but which actually do explain success. So, for example, one of them you would call mind sight, which is […]
I'm very optimistic that we can make breakthroughs precisely by trying to take steps in the direction of a more integrated, contextualized neuroscience of consciousness.
There is nothing qualitatively different about the way the Internet is changing our human experience now than the way the invention of writing did some thousands of years ago.