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In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg takes an unflinching look at the science of habit, and offers concrete strategies for transforming harmful habits into beneficial ones.
The amount of medical information we have is doubling every five years. By using advanced computers like Watson, doctors can process that data into clinical cancer treatments.
Brain imaging studies show that every time we learn a new task, we're changing our brain by expanding our neural network.
What is the Big Idea? It’s late May and the year is 1989. Among the chaos in Tiananmen Square is 20-year-old David Tian, who is one of millions bravely chanting […]
What is the Big Idea? Earlier this month, 20-year-old student Tsering Kyi emerged from a public restroom at a produce market in Tibet, soaked in gasoline and with a defiant […]
The video below ought to put a definitive end to the No Sex versus Bad Sex debate. Slovakian wildlife photographer Adrián Skippy Purkart captured a queen ant being ravaged by a […]
A few years ago I gave a sermon at my (very liberal) church asking the question: “What determines the limit to our tolerance?” After the service, one member of the […]
A survey of over 1,200 European business executives yielded five general personality types which differ according to their role in the innovation process. Which do you best fit?
You can use the same method that generated the idea for Twitter to create a new idea for your business. It just takes a little brainstorming and a few important ground rules.
While working at a start up may have more cultural caché, getting a job at a corporation provides opportunities for leadership and innovation that are already scaled.
Quick. Grab a pencil. Some crayons. A notepad. Wrap your brain around this Friday's Big Enigma from Ivan Moscovitch's The Big Book of Brain Games. Share a photo of your solution in […]
In order to avoid destructive consequences, people must have reasonable opportunities to satisfy their desire for purity. Many horrors have been committed from fear of contamination. What else is “ethnic […]
A series of studies suggest that cognitive and cultural diversity within a group of entrepreneurs is more successful than a monoculture of aggressive intelligence.
In a new book, author Vijay Vaitheeswaran argues that innovation will occur differently than in the past. We need to harness the power of democratizing Internet technologies, he says.
A Q&A With Christian Wiman, Translator of Stolen Air When Osip Mandelstam died at age 47 in a Siberian work camp under the Stalin regime, he became one of twentieth-century […]
My latest column has been posted on AlterNet, How Religion's Demand for Obedience Keeps Us in the Dark Ages. It's about the religious worldview that sees human existence as a […]
We are witnessing a paradigm shift in medicine that is equal to that of Galileo saying the Earth was not the center of the Universe or Columbus saying that the world was round, not flat.
Editor's Note: Today, in honor of World Water Day, we're publishing this guest post from Doc Hendley, the founder of Wine to Water, a nonprofit organization focused on bringing clean […]
We were promised Jetsons-style helpers but all we have is a big hockey puck that vacuums hardwood floors. Will inventors ever create great humanoid robots? If they do, will we accept them?
Maybe it's because I'm a product of post-sixties America, born into an anti-authoritarian culture of individual liberty and self-expression. Maybe it's because I'm the rebellious son of a tough, Italian-American mother. But I've always had issues with discipline . . .