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Sky-high rent, second jobs, and wealth-worshipping 1% TV shows—journalist Alissa Quart explains how the American dream became a dystopia, and why it's so hard for middle-class Americans to get by.
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The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small.
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Success isn't about finding one great way to achieve something and sticking with it. It's about looking at all the possible options and computing success through analysis.
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World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku thinks that one day a cancer diagnosis will be far less scary than it is today.
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The cult of the startup founder and our reverence for entrepreneurialism shouldn’t excuse wrongdoing, says Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter John Carreyrou.
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The former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan explains what it will take to reduce gun violence against kids.
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As the technology of virtual reality improves, we are going to start spending more time and getting more emotional inside it, says VR filmmaker Danfung Dennis.
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Free trade may be the best system for the global economy but there are legitimate reasons for why some people had enough of it, says political scientist Ian Bremmer.
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What are the values most important to a company? MIT's innovation expert Michael Schrage shares his thoughts on how to approach Key Performance Indicators.
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We love citing the big names in science. Einstein. Curie. Sagan. Nye The Science Guy. But does that lower the bar for the rest of the workaday scientists out there?
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How do companies keep getting you to buy the "latest and greatest" iteration of the product you already own? By testing the boundaries.
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Meeting people is easy. Just ask award-winning author and "most connected millennial" Jared Kleinert.
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Physicist Michio Kaku doesn't see immortality as impossible, especially of the digital kind.
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Former U.S. Congressman Steve Israel explains why Congress seems so paralyzed and can't pass any commonsense gun control.
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Some Westerners fear China's rise but a strong China usually means less need for war, says David Kang, Professor of International Relations at USC.
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What role can art play in science? An unexpectedly important one, says NASA's Michelle Thaller.
Could Alzheimer's be prevented with a simple vaccine? This startup posits that it can.
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How much does cognitive bias change people's perception? Well, the history of computing would be a lot different.
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How does humanity arrive at great ideas? Simple: we take already great ideas and just arrive at even greater ideas.
Michio Kaku tells the story of a bet between Thomas Edison and Henry Ford that Elon Musk is now fulfilling.