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Whatever your length of service in the top role, this tool-box will help you conquer adversity — and thrive.
These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
Who — or what — really controls your mind?
The documents that convicted the infamous traitor were all kept in this unassuming leather pouch.
There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
From “Thompson’s violinist” to the “Experience Machine,” these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
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Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.
Hubble’s deepest views of space revealed fewer than 10% of the Universe’s galaxies. James Webb will change that forever.
Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.
In a 2018 article, Gallup writer Ryan Pendell shared some frightening figures for business leaders. Public poll data showed that only a quarter of employees believed their leaders had a […]
New research sheds light on the indoctrination process of radical extremist groups.
Philosophers, theoretical physicists, psychologists, and others consider what or who is really in control.
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How does philosophy try to balance having free will with living in a deterministic universe?
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
It’s one way to interpret recent X-ray data, but it conflicts with much, much better data we already have. Earlier this month, a new study came out claiming something shocking: perhaps […]
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Chemical engineers have developed a way to protect transplanted drug-producing cells from immune system rejection.
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Why campuses are becoming polarized — and what we can do about it.
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