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An Idaho School Board is considering a new social media policy that forbids teachers from friending, following, or posting about students and their parents. The policy change stems from an incident involving a high school basketball teacher who was fired over a controversial photo.

Robert Pinsky: I think skepticism toward things like titles, good reviews, what the world calls distinctions, recognitions, can become mechanical, but it’s a good armor too. 

According to a new study, chimpanzees are at least as good at (if not better) than humans at adjusting strategy choices during competition.

Recently I’ve seen a ton of people sharing a provocative Forbes article whose title just about sums it up: “Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid […]

The decision by the Tony Awards Administration Committee to cut the two sound design categories has been met with disdain by a nation’s worth of theatre professionals frustrated at the awards show’s continued focus on commercialization.

God doesn’t answer back.  That’s the problem.  Humans can.

If someone is drowning, that’s not a time you can teach them to swim. 

All across the US this summer, paintings by American artists will replace advertisements for the widgets you probably don’t need anyway.

Similar to how affection-detecting machines were used in the film Blade Runner, the Brazilian researchers’ methods could possibly be used to anticipate crime.

Providing an insight that helped me to solve a problem that I didn’t know was there – that, in effect, is a form of serendipity. 

Tim Ferriss: I have learned tango, kickboxing, languages – all this crazy stuff.  It’s because I had a method and that is a method that you can use.

From the country whose hit shows have featured slow boat rides and bird box video streams comes “Kisten” (“The Coffin”) in which famous people spend time thinking about and preparing for their future final send-off.

The challenge we have in a democracy is that we can change our minds depending on which party is in power. 

A theoretical contradiction may lie at the heart of the multiverse theory, which says that our universe is but one in a series of potentially infinite universes.

Susan Barry: It’s a good idea to see a developmental optometrist and determine whether or not binocular vision issues are impacting your child’s ability to read. 

Young artists are fleeing New York and searching for new, accessible locales to set up shop. Detroit’s budding arts scene has welcomed them with open arms.

Neutrino physics is becoming more popular and attractive since it is, relatively speaking, cheaper than big accelerator physics compared to the cost of, for example, the Large Hadron Collider.

Dan Savage: I’ve often felt it’s very empowering to acknowledge what you don’t know.

Punishment – mild, severe, abusive – changes behavior only at the moment it is delivered. 

William Sahlman: Without overconfidence, I’m convinced entrepreneurship wouldn’t take place.

In order to put the right economic policies in place, we need a generally well-educated public who understand the value of these policies in the first place.  

In a new paper, two Dutch researchers suggest that locally-sourced meat could come from “village-scale” culturing of livestock stem cells in a biotech reactor.

Nitin Nohria: If you make others around you feel that you took the best advantage of every opportunity you were given, I promise you, you will get more opportunity in the future.

The marketplace of ideas would be a lot stodgier and less fluid—and more dangerously larded with lies—if it weren’t for humor. As Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert show night after […]

General relativity sure does make some counterintuitive predictions. “They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.”–Steven Wright Each week on Ask Ethan, I take a dive […]

If we came to be just a few billion years earlier, we’d never know. Image credit: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum Astronomia), Hawaiian Starlight. “After all the ‘Universe’ […]

From Eliott Johnson’s Super Bubble gum ritual to Carlos Quentin’s pre-game “aura spray,” baseball players are notoriously superstitious. This naturally raises the question of why. In the second part of […]

Do you add to the energy in the room or suck the energy out?

Numerous studies have demonstrated the ways in which healthy social relationships can extend life. A new one suggests that domestic strife can shorten life…even when the only weapons are words.

We can train people how to get control of resources like money or to recruit and build teams, or to structure sensible strategies.