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There are multiple levels of “we” and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

As people in different countries are able to tell their own stories they are responding to the idea of Africa as a place of permanent suffering.

I recently teamed up with a Canadian filmmaker named Ian MacKenzie to create a new video explaining some of the key points of my work. Specifically, Ian’s piece beautifully expresses […]

We are gaining the capability to create products that mimic how a brain works.

Why do we have so little engagement in work these days? Companies need to be about values.

You can zoom in to the image and view an area of the Red Planet’s Gale Crater in unprecedented detail. 

It is just an extremely satisfying and wondrous moment when you think you’ve unlocked a secret of nature. 

Figuring out how to build a brain is a very powerful intellectual exercise for sure, but the project is a long way off. 

Study after study tells us somewhat disturbing things about the solidity of human character: There is no single version of “you” and “me” even though we talk as if there were.

by Suzanne Ehlers, for Population Action International A walk to her local clinic may take several hours. She may have to wait in line. She may have to go back […]

Tito Beveridge didn’t set out to build a big nationwide vodka company. He just set out to meet some girls, write off his bar tab, and maybe make $1,200 a […]

There’s a misconception that the knowledge economy doesn’t also encompass making things.

The brain is the most demanding organ that your circulatory system has to feed.

Other people are really just another version of you. It’s nothing fancier than saying, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” 

The efficient market model states all security prices today reflect all available information and only new information is going to change the price.  

When you tell a child “You’re so smart,” you’re unwittingly encouraging a fixed mindset. 

How all the parts of the brain come together so that you have a unified perception of the world is one of the unsolved mysteries in neuroscience. 

The idea that there’s this massive amount happening under the hood came from Freud. 

How do you get a million and a half people to read a blog post on tax policy? Obama digital wunderkind Teddy Goff has a simple mantra: don’t be lame.

I think this whole idea owning your work seems silly to me.  I feel you should flip everything.

Geoengineering or climate engineering refers to humans taking larger action to slow down climate change or even reverse it.

One reason that we know that ideas stick and spread is because they’re useful.

Writing for a unanimous Supreme Court majority, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that Myriad Genetics Inc. did not invent anything when it isolated two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. 

An electric bicycle took off in a Prague exhibition hall yesterday and completed a 5 minute flight and safe landing. 

An electric bicycle took off in a Prague exhibition hall and completed a 5 minute flight and safe landing. 

Is the division of labor still maintained today as Adam Smith defined it?

In my experience, about 80 percent of requests get a meaningful lead that a person couldn’t have gotten otherwise. 

The Internet Pioneer generation loves advertising. They want advertising to be content. 

There is a tendency in our culture to single out one nutrient or ingredient as a quick fix. 

Einstein is quoted as saying, “We physicists, we who understand science know that the distinction between past, present and future’s an illusion.”