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You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.
“Feedback is a gift,” is an easy bumper sticker to apply, but a harder philosophy to put into execution in your real life.
The father of relativity understood that “not everything that counts can be counted” — as do today’s most impactful leaders.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a "lazybones" with a "not very solid" education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
AI-powered voice technology is poised to revolutionize the ways we do business.
We used to think, "That email isn’t going to write itself." But now it can, thanks to AI. And there's so much more, from coding to marketing.
Quality down time is important for relationships. Here are three practical suggestions to create more of it.
You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.
Giambattista della Porta's contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.
The outrage machine is fueled by toxicity. But there are practical steps that we can take to recapture control over our emotions.
Science news presents a flood of breakthroughs and discoveries that promise to change our lives. They rarely do.
If you want to write and speak well, use common words, not grandiose ones. Unless you're Shakespeare, you're more likely to annoy people.
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
Are people are more likely to act less emotionally and more rationally when speaking their second language?
"Human connection is as threatened by unhealthy peace as it is by unhealthy conflict." —Priya Parker
"In witness whereof, the parties hereunto have set their hands to these presents as a deed on the day month and year hereinbefore mentioned."
George Orwell got it right: "Never use a long word where a short one will do."
His greatest speeches were loaded with empathy.
There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
When it comes to spotting a lie, less is more.
The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant's pain.
Arguments don’t have to be about winning or losing; they can help us build trust despite disagreeing.
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
Everyone loves a good underdog story, but the lessons we derive from them depend on how they’re told.
Telegrams were the “Twitter of the 1850s and 1860s” — and they elicited the exact same overblown fears as Twitter does today.
Can ChatGPT help you power through writer's block?
"I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences."
John Templeton Foundation
Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.