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Effective leaders demonstrate self-awareness, credibility, and integrity, which not only enhance their persuasive abilities and business growth but also significantly influence the trust others place in them, as noted by economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett.

Mindfulness is trending, with widespread celebrity endorsements and varying claims about its benefits, but Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of The Center for Mindfulness, aims to clarify its true meaning amidst the hype.

Top Gun, the iconic 1980s film about U.S. Naval Fighter Weapons School, may portray pilots as charismatic and confident, but real-life TOPGUN graduate Guy Snodgrass emphasizes that success requires more than just attitude and athleticism.

This class, featuring experts like Timothy, Herman, and Zollman, explores organizational culture and decision-making by emphasizing psychological qualities, diverse perspectives, and the importance of collaboration, trust, and organized skepticism to enhance team effectiveness and combat cognitive biases.

Led by experts like Peter Diamandis and Jane McGonigal, this class teaches participants to harness innovation and creativity through clear goal-setting, a challenge mindset, and the effective use of deadlines, fostering a culture of productivity and empowerment.

In this excerpt from "Seven Rivers," historian Vanessa Taylor explores how Ancient Egyptian pharaohs harnessed the Nile River to build empires and secure their power.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Brian Gumbel — President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr — explores the cutting edge of real-time information analysis.

Just because a paper passes peer review doesn't mean that what's written, or what the author asserts, is true. Here's why it still matters.

MIT Sloan’s Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer outline their tried-and-tested solution for stubborn workflow blockages.

5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.

Philosophers once prophesied that evolution would lead to minds far greater — and stranger — than our own.

In the post-AI startup landscape, the role of the entrepreneur will evolve from operator to orchestrator. Are you ready?

A next-generation collider is required for studying particle physics at the frontiers. Here's the fastest, cheapest way to get it done.

Parallel universes are among the most profound notions in all of quantum physics. It's a compelling and fascinating idea, but is it true?

When it comes to our Universe's origins, scientists discuss the Big Bang, cosmic inflation, and other theories. Why doesn't "God" come up?

The conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.

It makes no sense to talk about a “religious life” and a “public life” — there is just life.

With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.

In "The Headache," Tom Zeller Jr. explores one of the human brain's most enduring, and painful, enigmas.

Will we build a successor collider to the LHC? Someday, we'll reach the true limit of what experiments can probe. But that won't be the end.

In "After the Spike," Dean Spears and Michael Geruso show why policy, rather than high population density, has the most significant impact on the environment.

"It's a very, very beautiful calculation, but it's the best example I know of the relationship between these rather abstract quantities perhaps and something that you can look at in a telescope."

Want to study philosophy but skip some of its heavier tomes? These five novels are a great place to start. (Existential despair guaranteed.)

“CIA classifies their secrets according to different terminology. There's confidential secrets, there are secret level secrets, and then there are top secret secrets. And the way that they define each of these different levels actually has to do with the impact that would occur if the secret became public knowledge.”

The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But there is a third way.

How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.

“It's a remarkable series of events that were required for us to be here, and that so many things could have happened in a different way that we wouldn't be here at all, both individually, and as a species.”

An atheist's case for why American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.

“Even if there are beliefs that we hold that are true, if we prevent people challenging those beliefs, we will lose our understanding of why they're true.”