Lionel Tiger: Christmas is perhaps the most popular holiday in the world because it gets right to the bedrock of what religion is about, which is you’ve got to take care of the mother and the child.
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With the iconic pillars and fairy inside, this star-forming region in our galactic plane just might be the most spectacular of them all. Image credit: ESO, via http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0926a/. “The most […]
Women have at least 50 percent of buying power in households and I think it’s natural and essential that businesses have women on their boards.
Straight from the department of “why didn’t I think of that?”, a British designer has invented an alarm clock that doubles as coffee machine.
The old notion of giftedness, the notion that we are born with a certain quantity of intelligence or a quantity of talent really isn’t there.
Ray Jayawardhana: Being a scientist has given me a chance to see the world.
The extent to which human beings are willing to be duped by computers is already very large.
Nitin Nohria: I don’t think what you do is you teach leadership, what you do is you help people become better learners from experience so that they can enhance their own leadership.
More than a decade of slow starvation has begun to weaken the inner organs of the media, not just its surface elements like production values and paper quality.
If you can think of a human activity or occupation, there will be people who love it and live for it and others who couldn’t bear it.
An awful lot of innovation is based on the remixing of existing ideas and sometimes adding a little bit new as well.
Big decisions made now can open up future paths toward working again with a past employer. This means that, in one respect, you can be like LeBron James.
Hal Gregersen: Four-year-olds everywhere in the world are successful innovators. They ask lots of questions. They observe like anthropologists. And that means everyone – you and I – we have more creative capacity than we think.
No one learns to do their jobs in school. You learn your job through experience and through your relationships at work.
Jeff Walker: The teacher is the individual who I can associate with, who I want to track over time and who I will connect to.
The chemical, oxytocin, that makes us want to cuddle, also makes us very suspicious of out-groups, people who are not in our relationship.
We’re somehow hard-wired for stories that have a beginning, a middle and end, stories that really teach us about the past.
If you’ve been following YouTube Geek Week, you may have noticed that YouTube has been releasing one Easter egg per day this week.
There are seven billion of us now and contrary to the evening news we all get along, kind of.
Michael Gazzaniga: Scientists we sometimes get annoyed with, but not science.
If spinning-and-moving charges make magnetic fields, why does a giant neutral thing have one? Image credit: NASA, Chandra X-ray Observatory, SAO, DSS, via http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140725.html. “By allowing the positive ions to […]
“It never hurts to dream impossible dreams,” Booker told Big Think, as “you never know they might come true.” So if he could have one superpower it would be “control over time,” Booker said. “Because that’s really my only enemy.
Francis Fukuyama: We are programmed to favor friends and family, and this is the default mode of politics.
A horrendous disease called Sleeping Sickness was close to being eradicated but war in Sudan gave it a new lease on life.
We always fall back on this notion that the rest of the world is somehow the way that we are.
Kids might be immensely great at something, but they’re never performing at a great adult level.
Eric Green: I predict, starting over the next few years, women will opt to just simply give a little bit of blood which they’re giving anyway as part of their clinical care.
Places that today aren’t really seeing a particular water challenge, are absolutely going to have problems if we don’t change our ways.
What would it take for Americans to work a lot less? Our seemingly relentless drive to work may have been justified when society had far less capital and more rudimentary technology.
The business school image of arriving at an enterprise you’ve taken over all guns blazing and summarily firing people in the elevator and snapping your fingers – business doesn’t work that way at all.