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Resilience
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
For decades, cinemas have earned more from concessions than ticket sales. But can their current business model survive in the streaming age?
Million Stories
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Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
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Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
Airports are like mini-cities: they have places of worship, policing, hotels, fine dining, shopping, and mass transit.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
There are many ways asynchronous learning benefits both individuals and organizations, from learner autonomy to cost savings.
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Financial expert Paula Pant explains how you can afford anything, but not everything.
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The ultimate definition of trauma, explained by leading psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.
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Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
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To be happy, you have to become antifragile first. Harvard’s Tal Ben-Shahar explains.
John Templeton Foundation
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Your brain is wired for trauma. And it can be hot-wired to forget it.
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life's unavoidable challenges.
The future of American jobs isn't only services and tech.
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You can’t predict success. But according to minds like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku & more, you can hot wire it.
Today’s careers don’t offer a clear path forward, but the rewards can be worth more than a gold watch at retirement.
After 70 years, "The Power of Positive Thinking" remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
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TOPGUN fighter pilot Guy Snodgrass shares his 3 key leadership lessons from the cockpit.
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Economist Tyler Cowen says there are good reasons to be crypto-skeptical.
Negative feedback ignites the primal (“fight or flight”) and emotional (“do they hate me?”) parts of our brain first.
There's no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn't mean we're powerless in the wake of loss.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
Our concept of "failure" is way too narrow.
The war in Ukraine is unlikely to trigger a catastrophic nuclear meltdown. Physics and smart engineering are the reasons why.
Some artifacts drown in shipwrecks, others are taken by the tide. Many others will vanish as a result of climate change and rising sea levels.
Much like energy and nutrients flow in a continuous cycle between the elements of a natural ecosystem, a free flow of knowledge fuels the growth of a learning ecosystem.
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