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No bodies of water exist on Mars. But they used to, thousands or perhaps millions of years ago, as this photo attests.

These are some of the highlights of the last three years in the life of our star. 

It seems to me that programming is quite possibly the last job that people on this planet will have.

I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game theoretic analysis.

When you have a capitalistic society, to the extent that you encourage and nurture these kinds of prosocial, generative, giving attitudes, the more you will have success, not the less. 

There’s every reason to think that in almost all theaters of human endeavor, education, business and the like, this kind of activity is a positive, not a negative.  

Darwin appreciated the ways in which groups have to evolve compassionate, sympathetic, helping, altruistic behaviors, at least within those groups in order to survive and be successful, vis a vie, other groups. 

Today there is a multiplicity of outlets now through which you can get supposed economic research and access to new economic ideas.

In Space Chronicles, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes how the Soviet Union was a catalyst for the U.S. space program, and China might be considered a similar catalyst today.

Scientists have now studied it in the last decade or 15 years, and the reason why AA works is that it adheres to the Golden Rule of Habit Change.  

I think that human beings are most limited in their tendency to pursue certainty and to think that answers are somehow absolute or even beneficial. 

Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried as an enemy combatant or face a federal civilian trial?  

We’re in a period now where capitalism is going to have to recreate itself because that selfishness works to an extent but it does leave people behind.

We need to create more resilient and innovative workplaces because the competition is fierce out there in 21st century.

Roger Moenks’s I Am Eco Warrior Project aims to stylize the environmental movement as cool or in the frontline of pop culture.

If you take the analytic approach to realistically look at your skills and your strengths and help develop a plan, a roadmap to get through a challenge and identify role models in your life you’ll be on the road to optimism.

If we exercise our power as users, as consumers, as investors and voters we can make a difference.

More often than not it’s the one lone instrument, person, human that senses something that no one else does.

Genius is not genetic. Mastery comes through a process.

The Planetary Society is the only organization now that does optical searches, so we have a telescope that looks, if you will, for laser signals from other civilizations.

We are conscious of both more and less than affects our nervous system

In disagreeing, be specific, targeted, focused and also positive.

That thing which we call culture, which is sort of the zeitgeist, the feel of an atmosphere is really hard to count and measure, and very hard to put into numbers.  And yet it tends to be the most important thing.

Our human existence is wonderfully complicated and our culture is wonderfully complicated by pastimes and ideas and information that are entirely divorced from the evolutionary concerns of getting our genes into the next generation. 

Robert Kaplan explains how success is not about meeting someone else’s definition of success, but defining it on your own terms.

Choking is honorable failure and panicking is dishonorable failure. It’s important to maintain a line between those two things. 

Now is definitely the time to take risks.  I have two daughters, both of whom are now grown and married, with kids.  One has two kids, the other almost has […]

I think it’s not always right that people should follow their passion.  There is a questionnaire that people fill out just before they enter college that has been going on […]

The tax on corporate profits is a terrible tax. Economists to this day don’t know who pays it. And that means that we really don’t know who’s bearing the burden.

La cocina es una de las primeras actividades que nació en la historia, no? Lo primero que hicieron los humanos fue comer. Durante la historia ha ido dialogando con otras […]