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Today, anyone who is driven by a dream to solve a problem has the opportunity to change the world. This wasn't the case in past eras.
"To do successful research, you don't need to know everything; you just need to know one thing that isn't known."
What will historians say about our time 250 years from now? Lawrence Summers asks this question in a thought-provoking lecture about the evolution of ideas.
Words of wisdom from the Wizard of Menlo Park: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
We all want to be financially stable and enjoy a well-funded retirement, but we don't want to squander our hard-earned money on poor investments.
Yale Professor Jeffrey Brenzel argues that reading the great classics can not only enrich your education, but also actually make your life better.
The most important thing about art is every person's capacity to make it, and that the body/mind discipline of cultivating your artistic abilities has collateral utility for every aspect of life.