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The Information Age has made humans more managers of knowledge than vessels for it.
People who solve problems in slightly disorderly environments are more likely to arrive at creative solutions.
Would you kill a baby if you knew he would grow up to be Hitler? Psychologist and author Kevin Dutton explores the mindset of psychopaths as a window into this fascinating ethical question.
Chinese developer Zhang Yue is planning to build the world’s next tallest building, dubbed “Sky City”, which as the name suggests will be a self-contained city, holding 30,000 people.
Using social media to participate in faraway religious gatherings is now officially grounds for the granting of “indulgences”, or time off a purgatory sentence given for confessed or forgiven sins.
Their am so many bad grammar every where.
The legal system is ill equipped to render justice in the tragic death of a young black man.
Now with more than 3,000 subscribers from across the US and Canada, Call in the Night “attempts to wake people mid-dream so they can be recorded talking about what was happening during their REM cycle.”
Japanese scientists have found that listening to sad music may actually evoke positive emotions, even though the experience of sadness itself is widely considered to be negative emotion.
The history lesson in Zimmerman’s acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin
On a street where men are known to harass and molest women, tables have been set up at which “Action Heroes” invite strangers to sit down and talk one-on-one.
The words “nerd” and “geek” are often used interchangeably, as if they mean the same thing. They actually don’t.
The biggest lesson from Popper’s philosophy is that skepticism is the ultimate open-mindedness.
To raise funds needed for renovation, the St. Brother Albert Homeless Shelter in central Poland is offering a course in urban survival, teaching its students how to live in the concrete jungle without money.
An “ex-gay” Ministry President shows us all how apology is done.
I find your use of the word “offensive” to be offensive.
Until the late 20th century, Western approaches to mental well-being focused mainly on treatments directly affecting brain function (via surgery, electric shock or pharmaceuticals, for example) or insight-oriented psychotherapy intended […]
“We’re seeing an unprecedented epidemic of depression in our society,” says Dr. Andrew Weil, “More people are being diagnosed with depression than ever, including millions of children. The latest statistics […]
“Everything happens for a reason” is my very least favorite thing for someone to say.
Two thousand Oklahoma City students were given free mobile phones that sent them encouraging texts each day. After nine months, they said they valued education more, but there was no corresponding increase in achievement.
Antiquated phrasings don’t make you any more profound than antiquated notions.
Which sayings are true, and which ones just sound nice?
One widely useful mental habit that we teach in our class at the Center for Applied Rationality is called reference class forecasting, and it’s for the most part, in the literature, […]
Highly abstract thinking represents a cultural adaptation to the complexity of modern technological society, but the complexity of contemporary life is not evenly distributed.
We all want to help our friends and loved ones but sociologists have found that helping too much—substituting our efforts for the efforts of those we’re trying to help—tends to blunt their chance of success.
Just minutes after meditating, participants in a recent experiment showed beneficial changes to their genetic profile with helpful genes becoming more active and harmful ones becoming less so.
Hedonometer.org, created by a team of University of Vermont mathematicians, provides daily estimates of the global mood based on a random sampling of 50 million tweets.
It took India’s Jadav “Molai” Payeng 30 years to plant what’s now a 1,360-acre haven for birds and other animals. He says the second one may take another 30 years “but I am optimistic about it.”