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If there are human-sized creatures walking around on other planets, would we be able to view them directly?
Talking about money with loved ones is awkward. Here’s how to do it.
Centuries ago, the typical British coffeehouse was more like a “school without a master” than a place to grab a quick boost of caffeine.
There could be variables beyond the ones we’ve identified and know how to measure. But they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness.
A skills gap analysis can help an organization prepare for change and become well-equipped to thrive in the future.
In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?
With great power comes retcon responsibility.
You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.
There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.
Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?
Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
If you’re a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren’t any neutrinos slow?
Einstein’s relativity overthrew the notion of absolute space and time, replacing them with a spacetime fabric. But is spacetime truly real?
Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.
Virtual instructor-led training is easily scalable and convenient for remote learners. Here’s how to orchestrate it effectively.
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The time to begin exploring VR training is now. Here are the pros, cons, and different ways this technology can be utilized.
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Ginni Rometty shares lessons in leadership learned during her 40 year tenure and recent executive position as former CEO of IBM.
From mobile learning to microlearning, these five methods for training employees are some of the most effective in the modern world of business.
A massive nuclear fusion experiment just hit a major milestone, potentially putting us a little closer to a future of limitless clean energy.
All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.
As the skills gap grows, learning and development can help ensure the viability of an organization’s talent well into the future.
Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.
People living in non-industrialized societies don’t get pimples.
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If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.