Search Results

Energy becomes literally the fuel that allows us to fulfill almost all of our dreams and what I point out to people is we do have a squanderable abundance of energy.  It happens to be sunlight. 

College is a risky investment, but you may be able to get a lot more out of living as a college graduate than if you didn’t have a college degree.

The mantra of the whole investment industry is simply not true. 

Most people listen to win the interaction, not to hear the content. 

Here is what would make a quantum computer so powerful.

We have to grow about 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed the population.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson lists the three drivers to accomplish extraordinary things.

Employees have expectations from their consumer lives about technologies such as mobile. They want to have that same experience now within their corporate environment.

I think you have a very different perspective on the future when you consider the exponential growth of information technology.  

And as someone who has a really terrible driving record I can’t wait for autonomous cars to come out.

Religious Americans are better neighbors and better citizens in a way. 

The easiest way to get Americans, in particular, onboard programming is by frightening the bejesus out of them. 

Scientists at MIT are hoping to map the 86 billion connected neurons in your brain, and have developed a browser game for you to help them accomplish this. 

In a video produced with the ACLU, director Oliver Stone explores the legacy of unchecked government surveillance programs, from Nixon to the current NSA spying program. 

Family size is a much larger determinate of personality than the order of one’s birth. 

People will not gloat about success.  They will gloat about failure.  It’s just the fact of life.

You have to love the process of starting from scratch. 

When you’re young you really don’t have the concept of failure.

It is so hot in Death Valley that you can fry an egg outside using nothing but the sun and a skillet. 

The parents have to go well outside of their comfort zone. 

We live in a curious moment when medical progress is making it possible to eliminate many conditions exactly as social progress is making it possible to celebrate them. 

If everybody could fly the inability to fly would become a disability. 

Neon and fluorescent lighting. Radio. Electric motors. Robotics. These are just a few of the inventions of the Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla that he never got credit for during his lifetime. 

Wendy Luhabe’s passion for mentoring other women is derived from the example set from her mother, who raised her during apartheid in South Africa.

Is there a difference?

An orchestral symphony has a lot of instruments, but you tend to concentrate on the soloists. 

Make sure whatever job you pick has enough intrinsic motivators in it that you can enjoy it long enough to get to your goal.

One factor that is involved in resilience is having a moral compass, a set of beliefs that few things can shatter. 

Scientists have located the specific brain region involved in the spread of ideas. Called the temporoparietal junction, it could help clarify why some ideas fall flat while others go viral.

The death of the man himself shows that the word “Kafkaesque” is not guilty of the vacuousness which it is sometimes accused of.