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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou
Are you tired of the email trap? What starts off as an innocent email can quickly escalate into a rapid fire argument. We’ve all been there, hovering a finger over […]
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
– Joseph Campbell
Michael Pollan on the Sacred, Ancient Act of the BBQ
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
– Bill Cosby
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.”
– Goethe
“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.” – Rene Descartes
If there are aliens out there, they likely passed by our planet, considered it an unsavory galactic truck stop, and kept going, continuing on their hunt for enlightened life. Aliens […]
Chris Kirk, the Chief Executive Officer of GEMS Education Solutions, on how schools can better prepare students for the challenges of tomorrow.
Management expert Daniel Pink on how to influence others by asking the right questions.
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” – Nicholas Murray Butler
Dickson Despommier on how vertical farming can help us meet the challenges of feeding a growing global population.
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Do you remember where you were when you first heard of this thing called the Internet? Do you remember how this technology—email, search engines—gradually took over your life, or perhaps […]
There has been a lot of attention in recent years on flow—complete absorption in a task that it almost seems effortless. The modern pursuit of flow—how to achieve it, how […]
“Deliberation is the function of many; action is the function of one.” – Charles de Gaulle
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
Are champions born or are they made? Science still cannot settle that debate. But one thing is clear: Certain brain injuries can produce super geniuses. This is not an invitation […]
As technology continues to shift, what will employees look for in their job candidates and how can education best prepare tomorrow’s workforce? At the Global Education & Skills Forum, Big […]
What do you see in this photograph? A Pac-Man with a tail gobbling up stars in the galaxy? NASA published this image of CG4, a ruptured cometary globule, which, in […]
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
“This common household object can kill you. Which one is it? Find out at eleven,” says the local news anchor promoting his show. This is an old joke. But the […]
Just 1,400 light-years away, among all the dust of a crowded star forming region, is the Flame Nebula. NASA released this image on Saturday, and explains on its site how the […]
Stephen Dubner on the strategy lessons of his latest book Think Like a Freak.
Editor’s Note: This article was provided by our partner, RealClearScience. One of America’s greatest tragedies is curiously absent from most U.S. history textbooks. On May 31, 1889, the South Fork […]