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Relax, says Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit. You can’t beat your Facebook addiction into submission – so schedule it into your work day.
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While strife is bound to happen between different religious communities, there is no occasion to apologize. Alain de Botton says it’s awkward to apologize, after all. “This could lead to […]
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The assistant managing editor of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40” rankings offers up 3 tips to women who want to accelerate their careers.
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Comedian Margaret Cho shares the story of the best mentor she ever had.
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Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt tells Big Think that Shakespeare inhabited a world in which “it’s much more possible to express homosexual passion and inact that passion without triggering a social […]
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Educational historian Diane Ravitch explains why NCLB has failed, and what we can do about it.
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The legendary punk rocker offers some advice to today’s youth.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita argues that gerrymandering gives incumbents a wildly unfair advantage.
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In Hooked Up, Myers focuses on a subset of Millennials he terms “Internet Pioneers” who are much better connected and much more savvy technologically than any other generation before, and […]
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Dr. Kaku answers the question of whether it is possible to resurrect the dinosaurs by “turning on” their ancient genes? Moreover, now that we have also sequenced the genes of […]
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In this installment of Penn Jillette’s Atheist’s Guide to the 2012 Election, the Penn and Teller illusionist (and outspoken atheist) sizes up Mitt Romney’s religion.
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Don’t have sex just because it’s good for you, says Slavoj Žižek.
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What is the Higgs boson? Michio Kaku describes the Higgs boson as a fuse. “It’s a match. It’s the spark that set off the Big Bang. It put the bang […]
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According to Mitt Romney’s former Bain Capital colleague Ed Conard, Romney is someone who tended to always take the longview in business.
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If adults want to deny evolution, that’s fine. Sure. Whatever. But those adults better not make their kids follow in step because we as society need them to be better.
Now in its second year, The Nantucket Project is a festival of ideas that will be held on Nantucket, MA from October 5-8, 2012.
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Christopher Ryan argues that we are hardwired to crave novelty, which leads to infidelity in marriages. Ryan says the way that culture responds to this “natural behavior” causes more problems […]