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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.

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Two things that are intuitively obvious to most parents – the importance of teaching children self-discipline and the educational power of fun – are also unusually well-supported by science.
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“Asked to imagine prehistoric human sex, most of us conjure the hackneyed image of the caveman, dragging a dazed woman by her hair with one hand, a club in the […]
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Cohen explains that population, economics, and environment are a dynamic, interconnected system – and that no single element holds the key to solving the world’s problems.
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NYU’s Stern School of Business professor Scott Galloway identifies the keys to a piece of content going viral: Authenticity (anything that legal approves immediately cannot go viral), Humor (a dog […]
The CEO of ViSalus Sciences explains why entrepreneurially-minded employees are an asset.
This short documentary is about computer chess history that focuses in particular on the 1997 chess match between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue computer.
Don’t try this at home (you can only do it in Nevada): Take a ride in Google’s Robocar, which is operated by a machine, not a human. A law passed […]
This video from Silicon.com features Kevin Warwick, professor at Reading University in England, a pioneer in cybernetics and a former cyborg. Warwick had an electronic chip “fired into his body.” […]
Just as it’s OK to swear in the office once or twice a year, you may stand up to your boss occasionally. But don’t make a habit of it, because […]
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If you have a big idea, chances are you’ll have to raise capital to make it happen. But don't limit yourself to just looking for someone to cut a check.
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The CEO of Ruckus Mobile Media explains how he recognized the digital shift in the publishing industry and decided earlier than others to jump in feet first.
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Driven, achievement-oriented people are often particularly uncomfortable with the risk of failure. At the same time, complacency is a sure-fire recipe for personal and professional atrophy; if we’re not moving […]
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Asher Edelman advises the Fed to instruct both the President, his advisors, and Congress that monetary easing alone or monetary policy alone, can never revive the economy.
Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West […]