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In my recent New York Times bestseller, Flash Foresight, I share seven principles that can make invisible opportunities visible. Being able to direct your future is essential for success in […]
For couples with lots of cash, agencies will provide a American surrogate who will carry a child to term. Once that child turns 21, they can apply for visas that will allow the whole family to emigrate to the US.
“Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed/ The dear repose for limbs with travel tired,” William Shakespeare writes in his Sonnet 27. “But then begins a journey in […]
Conceived of by former Trader Joe's president Doug Rauch, the store will offer affordable foods that, while technically "expired," are still perfectly edible. He says it's one solution to the growing problem of food waste.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed the hike so that more people will "switch on [their] brain" when entering a marriage. It's part of a growing trend towards increased social conservatism.
What a golden age these past few decades have been for learning about how human cognition works. And what a humbling age, as we discover the truth that satirist […]
It's an attempt to encourage marriage -- and the legal and financial benefits that come with it -- in a country where cohabitation has old cultural roots.
According to a research firm, Chinese could be consuming 5 million extra metric tons' worth of packaged food by 2015. The reasons mirror America's past; the potential consequences mirror America's present and future.
The reason Socrates banished laughter or comedy from the poetry of the just city is that comedians, at their best, remind us of what we all know: There’s an inexpressible […]
Suppose you knew that Earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed 30 days after your death in a collision with a giant asteroid. How would this knowledge affect you?
Scientists are using brain scan technology to hone individuals' ability to control the direction and precision of their own thoughts.
Planet Earth will be able to sustain life for another 1.75 billion years, after which point the surface will become too hot to support liquid water.
Imagining a bumblebee with a bull's head is a seemingly effortless task, but actually requires the brain to construct an entirely new and unreal image.
According to recent neurological insight, the muse is more apt to reward long periods of sustained concentration than intermittent fits of vision.
The art market is a market where commodification is the purpose even at the level of museums which effectively exist by virtue of the generosity of patrons.
The first serious discussion of a legal right to privacy in the United States didn’t come until the year 1890 and that was because of the invention of a technology and that technology was the Kodak camera.