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How does Alzheimer’s disease work?

Sure, some expert-level knowledge is needed if you want to program artificial intelligence. But AI expert Ben Goertzel posits that you also need something that Guns N’ Roses sang about: a lil’ patience.

Canadian author, psychologist, and intellectual Jordan Peterson has an interesting way of overcoming your self-doubt and anxiety: run right into it. Or, rather, write right into it.

Is there an arc to history? The danger that we’re in right now in the U.S. is that we’re shifting from a politics of inevitability to a politics of eternity, which affects how we view history, believes historian Timothy Snyder.

Are modern colleges more interested in their bottom lines than the needs of students? Dan Rosensweig explains why the educational system is ready for disruption.

If you want to free yourself from the consumer culture and economic constraints, you have to achieve financial independence, says author Vicki Robin.

What can parents and friends of trans people do to help them beat the dismal mental health and suicide statistics? A lot, says Elijah Nealy.

Consumerism is sort of like junk food—you can consume all you want but it’s still never going to be filling.

If you’re getting into the creative arts to get a big paycheck or ego boost: don’t.

Colonel Chris Hadfield talks to us about the formalities that astronauts have to use, and how it can help us here on earth.

The beautiful courtship rituals of the Club-winged Manakin leave both the male and the female worse off physically, says evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum.

Economic concerns can take much of the sentimentality and romance out of marriage, says Judith Bruce, the senior associate and policy analyst at the Population Council.

What do you do when “gatekeeper” bosses say no to your great ideas? You go back and pitch them again, says Beth Comstock, former Vice Chair of GE.

The thing that Carl Sagan did better than anybody else was connecting to the science through emotion and stories, says NASA’s Michelle Thaller.

How do you make yourself valuable in an ever-changing economy? You become well-rounded.

AI expert Ben Goertzel is no stranger to building out-of-this-world artificial intelligence, and he wants others to join him in this new and very exciting field.

There’s a reason you can’t stop you head boppin’ to block-rockin’ beats, and why you can’t get a song’s hook out of your head.

Want to hear a joke? Universities haven’t innovated in 400 years. At a time when close to half of all students aren’t graduating, Dan Rosensweig explains why and how to fix this broken education system.

After a setback occurs, you have two choices: blame someone, or get wiser. Executive coach Alisa Cohn explains why a ‘learning lab’ is more productive than pointing fingers.

Venture capitalists do not invest in female and minority entrepreneurs in any significant way. Nathalie Molina Niño explains several viable fundraising alternatives that won’t require founders to give up control of their companies.

Sky-high rent, second jobs, and wealth-worshipping 1% TV shows—journalist Alissa Quart explains how the American dream became a dystopia, and why it’s so hard for middle-class Americans to get by.

The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small.

Success isn’t about finding one great way to achieve something and sticking with it. It’s about looking at all the possible options and computing success through analysis.

World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku thinks that one day a cancer diagnosis will be far less scary than it is today.

The cult of the startup founder and our reverence for entrepreneurialism shouldn’t excuse wrongdoing, says Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter John Carreyrou.

The former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan explains what it will take to reduce gun violence against kids.

As the technology of virtual reality improves, we are going to start spending more time and getting more emotional inside it, says VR filmmaker Danfung Dennis.

Free trade may be the best system for the global economy but there are legitimate reasons for why some people had enough of it, says political scientist Ian Bremmer.

What are the values most important to a company? MIT’s innovation expert Michael Schrage shares his thoughts on how to approach Key Performance Indicators.

We love citing the big names in science. Einstein. Curie. Sagan. Nye The Science Guy. But does that lower the bar for the rest of the workaday scientists out there?