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I don’t think we’ve conceptualized yet well enough how the brain gets its job done to abstract all of that activity in our brain into meaningful units to which we can then think about how to move those around to build a brain.
Buy from a double A rated insurance company, a lifetime annuity, that will pay you for as long as you live.
No wonder we only have a couple of kids, rather than 10 or 12.
Someone is always getting killed. Someone is always getting assassinated. But there are also good things that happen in Afghanistan.
Most families nowadays have no alternative but to allow their women, their daughters, wives and so forth to go out to the workforce.
Businesses are reaching the limits of what they can squeeze out of a downsized workforce.
Complexity theory is about adaptive systems that teeter on the edge of chaos.
Niall Ferguson: going on a world tour and seeing which systems do the best job seems like a pretty good starting place to me.
One of the markers of a fast growing company is you constantly have to reevaluate everything.
New research suggests that the "automaton-like" nature of the typical immersive video game avatar can desensitize players to their own pain and that of others, regardless of the level of violence in the game.
The freedom to run your own company and be able to make ethical decisions and stick to your beliefs and stick to your values is very precious and easily lost.
You need to view business growth as a journey and not a destination, and that mindset if very helpful.
The six people who are selected to participate in the Mars Society's project will spend an entire year at a station located 900 miles from the North Pole.
Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space explorer, believes that if world leaders experienced what she did, they would come up with very different policies.
It isn't feasible to think that the potential tripling or even quadrupling of energy demand in the coming years can be met with renewable energy sources.
The very fact that Bach's music is so profound and so uplifting and the man is clearly not a saint makes it all the more interesting.
The author of The Red Badge of Courage, born on this day in 1871, shares today's wisdom.
The last solar eclipse of 2013 will take place November 3 and it will be a hybrid solar eclipse, meaning it will start out as an annular eclipse with a "ring of fire" (depicted above) and then become a full solar eclipse.
Dolley Madison was extremely controversial during the years of the Founding Fathers.
We can’t restrict adult reading habits to what is fit for children. We’ll have nothing but Alice in Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood.