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Why are we so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.

Spend more time in the company of people who have the habits you want.

Dov Seidman: My fundamental idea is that how is not an adverb.  It’s not a tactic. 

We have a general bias to read intentionality into things, to see things as happening for a reason, to believe that objects around us have been designed for some purpose. 

There is no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle.

The hacker Kevin Mitnick says he treated his fugitive status like a big video game.

Never mind the fact that watches aren’t as popular as they used to be: The Tikker has already blown past its Kickstarter crowdfunding goal. Writer John Kruzel thinks it might have something to do with the appeal of YOLO.

Hopefully you don’t feel like time is slipping away. It is how you use your finite time that counts!

The idea is to take yourself seriously enough to be on the journey and to make as much of it that you can possibly make. 

We live in a world in which most people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work.

The first thing I’ve learned about leading an extraordinary life is you don’t ride the jumps in your path, you ride the path itself. 

I think the more transparent that the world gets, enabled largely by technology, the more important it is that you are what you appear to be. 

When you’re trying to interact with an ecosystem of ideas, intellectual property becomes an encumbrance. 

The right to have an active sex life unencumbered by unintended pregnancy is a healthcare issue, but it is so much more than that as well. 

You can learn to argue with yourself. That’s actually how I get a lot of my thinking done. 

Bayes’ Rule is a formalization of how to change your mind when you learn new information about the world or have new experiences.

We ultimately need to change the global conversation from one of people complaining about problems to a mindset of solving them. 

Whenever anybody says anything in absolutes when it comes to public policy I’m a little freaked out, but especially when it comes to censorship. 

This image is an extremely unique solar eclipse, taken from space and revealing the Moon’s shadow on the Earth’s surface. 

If we want to get serious about improving the quality of education globally, we need to improve the professional status of teachers. In a new study by The Varkey GEMS […]

We should just be eating real food.  If it’s raw or cooked, I’m happy if people just eat real food. 

If curiosity is your curriculum the best way in which that curriculum can be undertaken is for all of your students to cut school and that’s a great idea, but it really won’t work at an institutional level in most universities. 

All life starts fused with its parents.

The success of an employee working from home depends on the person, on the job and on the training the organization provides to do that role remotely.

So what can you do if you tend to give a lot in a friendship and don’t always get what you need in return?

The sunk cost fallacy means making a choice not based on what outcome you think is going to be the best going forward but instead based on a desire not […]

Last week a US appellate court sided with a group of public sector employees who claimed they were fired because they “liked” the Facebook page of their boss’ election opponent.

The more players that want to create original content and finance it the more exciting it is in the world of ideas.

Lawrence Krauss describes quantum computing and the technical obstacles we need to overcome to realize this Holy Grail of processing.

The art market is a market where commodification is the purpose even at the level of museums which effectively exist by virtue of the generosity of patrons.