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MIT professor Robert Langer is a prolific American inventor in medicine. His advice? Don’t follow the money, do meaningful work.

Are university safe spaces killing intellectual growth?

Great again? Why America stopped looking forward to the future.

How the U.N. hatched the most ambitious plan in the world.

Mindfulness practices can considerably improve the symptoms of depression and anxiety, especially when used with psychotherapy.

Transformation of big companies is really important if we want to create a system that is fairer, more sustainable and less unequal.

Meritocracy doesn’t work when some people benefit from the system disproportionately.

Diplomacy is not always pretty and much of the work of diplomats is misrepresented and politicized but it is absolutely essential to keep the world at peace.

You are leaking data, and absorbing it, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. But for whose benefit?

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We all live by society’s invisible rules but for some groups, these rules are tighter than for others, says psychologist Michele Gelfand.

How does Alzheimer’s disease work?

Is there an arc to history? The danger that we’re in right now in the U.S. is that we’re shifting from a politics of inevitability to a politics of eternity, which affects how we view history, believes historian Timothy Snyder.

Consumerism is sort of like junk food—you can consume all you want but it’s still never going to be filling.

If you’re getting into the creative arts to get a big paycheck or ego boost: don’t.

Colonel Chris Hadfield talks to us about the formalities that astronauts have to use, and how it can help us here on earth.

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Economic concerns can take much of the sentimentality and romance out of marriage, says Judith Bruce, the senior associate and policy analyst at the Population Council.

The thing that Carl Sagan did better than anybody else was connecting to the science through emotion and stories, says NASA’s Michelle Thaller.

After a setback occurs, you have two choices: blame someone, or get wiser. Executive coach Alisa Cohn explains why a ‘learning lab’ is more productive than pointing fingers.

The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small.

Success isn’t about finding one great way to achieve something and sticking with it. It’s about looking at all the possible options and computing success through analysis.

The former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan explains what it will take to reduce gun violence against kids.

As the technology of virtual reality improves, we are going to start spending more time and getting more emotional inside it, says VR filmmaker Danfung Dennis.

What are the values most important to a company? MIT’s innovation expert Michael Schrage shares his thoughts on how to approach Key Performance Indicators.

How do companies keep getting you to buy the “latest and greatest” iteration of the product you already own? By testing the boundaries.

Former U.S. Congressman Steve Israel explains why Congress seems so paralyzed and can’t pass any commonsense gun control.

Some Westerners fear China’s rise but a strong China usually means less need for war, says David Kang, Professor of International Relations at USC.

What role can art play in science? An unexpectedly important one, says NASA’s Michelle Thaller.