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According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we're relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here's our place in natural history.
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Psychologist Daniel Goleman on how to train your brain with just ten minutes a day.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
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“You’re not meant to understand what I just said, because I don’t understand what I just said…” Physicist Brian Cox on one of the most complex theories in space science.
An excerpt from “Memory,” a primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School, explains why we have to crack the machine-buddy problem.
For human-centered leadership to achieve a “tipping point," people, productivity, and profits must be aligned.
Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?
“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
Perrikaryal uses an EEG to translate her brain activity into beating bosses in "Elden Ring" and beyond.
Ditch the old brain vs. heart assumptions, and instead think about a heart-led brain.
A growing body of research suggests that optimism plays a significant role in promoting both physical and mental well-being.
In logic, 'reductio ad absurdum' shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
The Reitoff principle gives us permission to "write off" a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.
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James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.
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Harvard has conducted an 85-year-long study on what makes humans happy. Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger explains what they found.
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Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
Happiness is not a five-star holiday. It's often the result of struggle — and asking for help, as author Stephanie Harrison recently told Big Think.
AI looks like a natural and inevitable fit for business coaching — but some humans are wary. Here are the pros and cons.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
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Pathologically busy people clamoring for happiness. Founder of HATCH Monica Parker explains how we can do so much better than that.
When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.
Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age.
People who have a regional accent might prefer robots who speak like them over generic voices.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot recently spoke with Big Think about a two-step method for escaping the dark sides of habits.
Is it genes or their special bond that drives identical twins to offend at similar rates?