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What are the things that I want to remember and that I want to be able to access later on and focus on remembering how to access them? And then […]
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Don't just look at the short term numbers, says business turnaround expert Fred Hassan. Success starts at the level of company culture.
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David Gergen, Lisa New and Chris Matthews weigh in on the question of America's Exceptionalism.
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Sharing might be the defining characteristic of being human. We are also very good at learning from others. The problem, however, is that we lack the proper filters and are […]
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Just as you wouldn't want to pick a baseball player for your team without an adequate record of past performance, you wouldn't want to pick a leader by taking a […]
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There are a lot single people who are very happy. Moreover, the scientific literature tells us that if you have not found a partner, there's a lot of hope for […]
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Meeting big, audacious, ambitious goals requires taking multiple steps in reasoning, not just thinking from point A to point B.
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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 […]