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If you’re worried about the fact that you’re in a relationship with a psychopath, what can you do about that? What might be some certain things to look out for?
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Abraham Lincoln’s humility comes from a lot of places, but it probably starts with his sense of empathy.
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Recently appointed director of the venerable Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell is trying to make classical music accessible to younger audiences without dumbing it down.
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Bell describes Beethoven’s 4th and 7th symphonies as joyful music, in contrast to the cliché of the composer as primarily gloomy and intense.
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In some ways we’re doing better than science fiction films like 2001: A Space Odyssey predicted we would.
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Over-parenting involves doing what your child can do, can almost do and confusing your child’s needs with your own.
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How can you create a universe from nothing? Well if you calculate the total matter of the universe it is positive. If you calculate the total energy of the universe […]
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One of the unfinished pieces of business from the Cold War is the question of the unification of the Korean Peninsula.
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It’s been more than ten years since the folks at Goldman Sachs dubbed Brazil, Russia, India, and China the BRIC countries, and lately other countries have been trying to glom […]
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The last thing we want to do is water down the teaching of biology because some people don’t recognize that evolution happened.
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Jonathan Zittrain, speaking at the 2012 Nantucket Project, describers how crowdsourcing is being used to solve all kinds of problems, and how it can be used for good and well […]
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Overcoming the myths of happiness might make life seem more complicated, but it’s the only way to stop interfering with our own potential to be happy.
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Daniel Burrus says there are clear ways to predict the future in an uncertain world. You need to unplug yourself from the present and look at examples of linear change […]
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Lawrence Krauss argues for differential pay scales for teachers with advanced training in science and math to accommodate the free market.
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How can we train our brains to think like Sherlock Holmes? This question occupies Konnikova’s book, and her answer can be summed up in one word: mindfulness. Mindfulness is “staying […]
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The most important thing is to feel about things you feel about – should feel about – and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about […]
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The most important thing is to feel about things you feel about – should feel about – and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about […]
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It’s a very handy thing to be a psychopath, says the psychologist Kevin Dutton.
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The old conventional wisdom was the China was manipulating its currency, causing a significant drag on the global economy. That isn’t true anymore.
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The soft skills associated with improv are actually the hard skills because there’s not an equation to be a great leader. There’s not an equation that tells you how to […]