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We are very, very wired to spread ideas and that’s where the power of human innovation comes from.

“Was Hamlet crazy when he killed Polonius?” 

I think we need tests and we need to apply those tests to individual teachers, to individual schools, to individual students and to individual parents.

As soon as we abandon the first intuitions we have, that we’re the ones in control of everything, then we can start sailing into the inner cosmos and discovering all sorts of new planets and life forms and things like that on the inside of our skulls. 

High school student Jeff Bliss offers to give his teacher a lesson in the video below. The teacher tells Bliss he is wasting her time and he needs to leave the classroom.

Robert Kaplan advises people to write down the story of their failures in order to make themselves aware of them.

The constant posture of disbelief of the current is what makes science great.

Mastery is basically a form of intelligence that people reach after years of working in a field, years of practice, experience, some failure.

I think there are so many voices out there now weighing in at all times that no single piece of criticism can have the same impact, not at this moment […]

I made predictions for what the global economy would look like in the very long term, maybe 10, 20, 40 years down the road. We are seeing some of these […]

I feel like once filmmakers start making movies with Google Glass, there’s no end.  It’s going to revolutionize documentary filmmaking – no question.

This picture is not of an alien invasion. It is a thunderstorm cloud called a supercell that was photographed in Glasgow, Montana. 

The only thing I’ve benefited from cats is I don’t understand them. 

The picture above is a composite of 25 images recorded in extreme ultraviolet light by the Solar Dynamics Observatory over the course of the past year.

Are U.S. Guns to Blame for Violence in Mexico?

You can grow from failure and then you work at it again.  You never give up.  You keep pushing forward.

One of the most important things you can do is just accept your need for ego validation.

The video below shows Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo breaking the sound barrier.

Predictive analytics is technology that not only gives organizations the power to predict the future but also to influence the future.

Robert Kaplan explains that his book is all about process, or teaching the steps that people need to reach their own potential.

We spend the first year teaching children to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

I have begun to use pheromones in place of color pigments to make honest paintings laden with emotion. I call it olfactory expressionism.

While this is one violent storm, scientists were actually the most surprised by how much the hurricane seems to resemble one on Earth.

Sleep scientists have begun recommending that schools start their classes later in the morning to account for the biological necessities of adolescents, who need more sleep than adults. 

Companies like Facebook do have human rights responsibilities. 

Creating clarity with a large, diverse team is one of the huge challenges that any leader is faced with. 

The development of technology and social media in particular has exposed all of us much more than in the past.

When you click on an article you are voting. You’re telling an editor to produce more content like that at the expense of the stuff that you didn’t click on.

“Natural gas is in the process of wiping out the coal industry, and it’s wiping out the nuclear industry quicker than we thought.”

In the age of social media we might have large networks but few if any real relationships.