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Warren Littlefield, former NBC president, advises young people entering any field to trust in their instincts even when they run counter to common sense in the industry, then to fight […]

Imagine yourself in the hotseat at NBC programming. Are you the Industry Leader? The Runaway Train? Or the Sniveling Quail? Take our psychometrically untested personality quiz and find out! 

Stephen Greenblatt argues that art is always grounded in its time and place, but that powerful art contains universal elements.

The scarcity of professional talent is a growing problem for companies around the world, says Anil Gupta, a leading expert on strategy and globalization.

Employers don’t want to patronize employees by making all of their benefits decisions for them, he says, but they can go a long way toward helping workers to understand their […]

Leadership isn’t about making all the decisions. It’s about empowering talented people to make many of them for you, and utilizing their talents as effectively as possible.

Everywhere you look you see organizations tapping big data to make more informed decisions.

A panel of cosmologists recently affirmed that the laws of physics, specifically quantum mechanics, can explain why the Universe exists without appealing to divine powers. 

A new app for the iPad, which presents readers with chucks of text more like flashcards than words in a conversation, claims to be able to increase your reading speed by 30% to 300%. 

Despite the political issues and the economic slowdown in China, it is still a growing country. Experts believe its economy will continue to remain strong for a while.

Facebook stocks are tanking, for now. Its membership growth is outstripping its revenue growth. And they keep changing the damned interface. What’s a social network organizer to do? Watching the […]

By using magnetic fields to disrupt local brain regions, scientists have recreated the kinds of distractions that happen in daily life. It turns out these distractions greatly color our perceptions.

We’ve been throwing the smartest people on the planet at the problem of artificial intelligence since the 1960s, and all we have to show for it is the Roomba vacuum […]

A new generation of college graduates has been had by the American higher education system, which insists on costly degree programs to justify its corrupting influence on society. 

OK, so I thought I was alone in this, and that it was due to incipient neural disorders or too many drugs back in the 80s, but no: It turns […]

What is the link between politics and basketball. Bill Bradley, who was a star in both fields, explains how teamwork is essential to success.

Bill Bradley describes his career and how he trusted himself and ignored the advice of others.

A new tactile sensor developed at the University of Southern California is more sensitive to the touch than an actual human fingertip. The technology will help advance prostheses and AI.

Two European physicists are attempting to explain black holes in the language of quantum mechanics. If successful, they could reconcile competing theories of how gravity works. 

Bill Nye describes evolution through the analogy of a flash mob. Some designs work out, some go away.

The Internet’s standards body is debating technology that allows users to make their surfing habits unavailable to advertisers. How far should the body enter the policy making realm?

According to Jaron Lanier, the right way to understand Alan Turing’s famous “Turing Test” is to understand that it “began in the mind of somebody who was in a deeply, […]

Ann Veneman has broken so many glass ceilings that she is understandably asked about it often. After all, she must have had a very clear career plan. And yet, Veneman […]

Based on The Institute for Economics and Peace’s annual Global Peace Index, Iceland is the most peaceful country in the world. The least peaceful country in the world is Somalia. 

There is so much going on in the economy, and much of what economists put out there about it is pretty depressing news. Three of the phrases that economists will continue to throw around—although scary—are ones everyone should be familiar with and know what they mean. 

Researchers conclude that children who were conceived by an older father, who also was conceived by an older father, may live longer.