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Activism 101: How to balance creativity and mission—and not burn out.

Actor, writer, and director Ethan Hawke discusses what qualities make a good artist, and why it's important to be accept ridicule for taking risk on the path toward artistic success.

What’s the Big Idea? The words “Renaissance man” get thrown around a lot these days, but Nathan Myrhvold’s career evokes the true spirit of the phrase. More polymath than genius, the […]

Viral content is defined by authenticity, humor and controversy; NYU Stern Business School professor Scott Galloway wrote an email to a student that hit the trifecta. He now uses the experience as a digital media strategy lesson.  

Myhrvold offers tips for grilling, including lining your grill with aluminum foil and brushing veggies liberally with oil to get extra flavor from dripping fat.

Some of you may be interested in Through the Keyhole, my ‘random thoughts’ blog where I put stuff not directly related to K-12 technology and/or leadership issues. Recent posts have […]

Over the past couple of years, pop-up spaces have populated the entire spectrum of trendiness and utility, manifesting as anything from retail hotspots to smart emergency shelter. Their conceptual origin […]

n Gulliver’s Travels (1726) is a satire of contemporary England dressed up as a faux traveller’s tale by Jonathan Swift, narrating in the first person the voyages of one Lemuel […]

Concluding that Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.

65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it probably caused the impact itself.

In the grand scheme of the cosmic story, a single year isn't all that significant. But over time, the annual changes really add up!

They could also "turn off" their fear.

If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.

Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.

St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world's children in one night.

Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.

"Downward counterfactual thinking" — that is, imagining how things could be worse — is a quick and easy way to boost your well-being and gratitude.

Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.

By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.

From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.

We're used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?

Astronomers have been looking for radio waves sent by a distant civilization for more than 60 years.

It's perhaps never been harder to resist the urge to overspend.

Our understanding always will remain incomplete.

Because Dylan “samples and digests” songs from the past, he has been accused of plagiarism. But imitatio isn't the same.

Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.

Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.

After 70 years, "The Power of Positive Thinking" remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.

Nobel Prizes cannot be revoked.

From time-traveling billiard balls to information-destroying black holes, the world's got plenty of puzzles that are hard to wrap your head around.