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Does working hard make you more money or does it just enrich shareholders? The concept of hourly wages could soon be eradicated.
Fr. Thomas Joseph White on the source of our religious inclinations.
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Can philosophy give you true understanding about life, the universe, and everything? Sometimes it Kant.
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Reality is whatever your body believes. Virtual reality knows how to hack that.
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RIP pessimists, we barely knew you. Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Michael Scheier explains the impact your outlook has on the world inside of you, from your cells to your psychology.
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The most make-or-break aspect of job automation? How policy makers handle your transition into a new career.
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Knowing how to tell a good story is like having mind control. Alan Alda shares some incredible tips for captivating a crowd—or nailing your next job interview.
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Haggling over a number? That's a terrible way for people to negotiate, says Harvard International Negotiation Project head honcho Dan Shapiro.
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Populism won two big votes in 2016, while the global worldview suffered… well… "big league". But how did we get to this big discord? And can populism and globalization ever get along?
Lord Rees on “speculative physics," the limits of the observable universe, and more.
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Former tennis pro James Blake makes a case for transparency in police departments.
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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. But if you're a Michelin Star chef with a restaurant to run, you're going to need a better coping strategy.
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California prisons are about as off-off-off-off Broadway as it gets—but that's where the emotional tools of theatre can make the biggest difference to people's lives.rn
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Primatologists and praying farmers show us why it takes a flexible brain, and many perspectives, to unlock truly groundbreaking science.
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Humans are a programmable species, and we live inside the most ancient operating system of all — ideology.
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Can computers be creative? Depends on whether you're asking it to write music or write a novel.
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Can understanding science make pop culture better, and can understanding pop culture make science more interesting? Absolutely.
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Jennifer Doudna, the CRISPR co-creator, says that the genie of genetic engineering might be hard to put back in the bottle.
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Your brain stops at the most comforting thought. The truth is somewhere beyond that. Using scientific skepticism as a guide, astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss outlines the questions that critical thinkers ask themselves.
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Once upon a time, hope meant confronting suffering, not avoiding it. Have overly sugary connotations about hope diminished its true grit?