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Michio Kaku: I believe in solar power, but there are problems that we have to face, and one of them is low efficiency.

The “Goldilocks” zone, astronomically speaking, is the habitable zone in a galaxy. That is where astrobiologists believe we can find liquid water and therefore the potential for life as we know it.

Very often, the most creative things happen in the most implausible places, such as the creation of the first electronic digital computer at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

In his latest book The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel talks […]

Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit, describes the powerful neurological 'habit loops' that underlie much of what people, corporations, and societies do.

Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet, says that there's no such thing as information overload – only indiscriminate information overconsumption.

So you got the psychopath. He has done the crime. We hold him responsible. Now we’re at the decision.

The trouble with the term "spirituality," says Buddhist teacher Kadam Morten, is that it doesn't automatically convey the discipline involved in successful spiritual practice.

As Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, David Rothkopf oversaw the International Trade Administration under Clinton. Now he's arguing that the deregulation which occurred during the 1990's unleashed an […]

Gloria Feldt is the former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power.

James Lawrence Powell weighs in on the question of public trust in science.

In a world defined by change, says Baratunde Thurston, you need a sense of mission that’s much bigger than the desk you happen to be sitting behind at any moment.

In his book, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and The Meaning of Everything, master translator David Bellos argues that "Babel tells the wrong story. The most likely […]

Educational historian Diane Ravitch on child development, in school and out.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita argues that occupying a park will never reform Wall Street. The right approach, instead, he says, is to change the system from within. That means shareholders […]