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Finland reveals that happiness is more about mindset than umbrella drinks and sun-warmed beaches.
Leadership training can have huge dividends, when it’s done right. Here are seven best practices for building a leadership development program that works.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
Moral panics about the content of children’s cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.
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A new study refutes some of the claims recently made about the value of napping.
Cryptocurrency “news” is dominated by enthusiasts and haters. Surely, an intellectual discussion can be had.
If you think of the Big Bang as an explosion, we can trace it back to a single point-of-origin. But what if it happened everywhere at once?
Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Too many people still view stay-at-home dads as feckless deadbeats, but their acceptance is an important step toward gender equality.
AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they’re saying. Humans are easily fooled.
JWST has brought us more distant views of the early Universe than ever before. Is the Big Bang, and all of modern cosmology, in trouble?
Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking’s final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.
Join Radiolab’s Latif Nasser at 1pm ET today as he chats with Malcolm Gladwell live on Big Think.
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Research has shown the benefits of mindfulness, but the current mindfulness craze cannot deliver on its overhyped promises.
One of the fundamental questions for those studying and advocating progress is around understanding what variables can move the needle for the type of progress that you might want to see in the world. It’s a key focus of the “progress studies” discipline and a question that has received increased attention from academics and public intellectuals in recent years.
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow offers three strategies for relaxing your cognitive filters to give your brilliant ideas time to shine in the spotlight of the conscious mind.
When the hot Big Bang first occurred, the Universe reached a maximum temperature never recreated since. What was it like back then?
Einstein’s theory of general relativity introduced the concept of space having a shape. So, what is the shape of space?
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.