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You can’t allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don’t go your way.  

if your school didn’t have a good commencement speech, you can find a lot of them online.

I study animals not to understand humans necessarily although that has become my business, of course.

My fear is that there’s a lot of pressure on public corporations no matter how well intentioned their managers are to produce results.

This question touches on one of the most fundamental issues that is addressed by anybody who thinks about mortality, the end of mortality.

The most important task we have as any generation does is to raise the next generation, and to pass on the tools for living as sane people to the next generation. 

Is extreme weather the new normal?

One of the greatest obstacles to finding your life’s task quite honestly can be your parents. 

The job of the human being, as you go through life, is to become less stupid.

I hate being angry and so I hate the adversary exchanges that you frequently find in the social sciences and actually in the physical sciences as well where people are snide and they use sarcasm. 

The issue of risk is absolutely central to being a creative person. 

A tool to help you consider an argument on its own merits instead of being tainted by your current feelings towards the person making it.

You need to recognize the cues and the rewards that you usually associate with smoking. 

We have witnessed a complete breakdown of our society as it was envisioned as an opportunity society.

David Foster Wallace’s classic 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College was not well known until after his death. In the video below, this great piece of life advice is given visual accompaniment courtesy of The Glossary. 

Obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects.

I am optimistic that religion is not strictly needed. But I cannot be a hundred percent sure because there is no human society where religion is totally absent so we […]

Fourth Graders seem to be able to do so much more than we give them credit for or even imagine they can.

There’s a lot of hype that goes into the disruptive innovations and then there’s a froth and foam that’s associated with that. 

Technology makes bombs and it can put us on Mars. Technology is neither good nor bad. It is a reflection of us.

In tests done on mice, the hydrogel effectively disguised the implant and tricked the body into thinking it wasn’t even there.

It’s never too late to find a mentor. But the most important thing is is to be realistic and practical.   

According to the biologist’s view, if we are indeed inherently polygamists, we should have never been as happy as we are today because modernity would seem to enable our real nature to express itself. 

Recognizing the gains of emerging markets like Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey is not just good manners. It’s good business.

In a world created by hackers those who can’t hack are the underclass.

The image above maps the location of more than 150,000 geocoded tweets that contained words deemed to be racist, homophobic or that targeted people with disabilities.

What you remember from your high school teachers is not so much the curriculum, you remember the way of being that teacher possessed. 

When people participate in market transactions, their moral standards fall substantially, supporting behavior they claim to oppose, such as child labor or meat production involving cruelty to animals.

My opinion is that IBM’s Watson computer is able to answer questions, and so, in my subjective view, that qualifies as intelligence.

A clean environment should not be a luxury.  It should be what people’s rights are as humans.