For Alex Matthiessen, resisting the temptation to micromanage keeps his Riverkeeper organization afloat.

The American consumer lifestyle may be incompatible with a sustainable civilization. Then again, it may be incompatible with happiness as well.

Unless a realistic, responsible national energy policy can keep it current, “green” may prove to be a passing fad.

The Middletown power plant tragedy raises concerns about the potential for far deadlier catastrophe. In a 2009 video, Alex Matthiessen weighs the risks of maintaining New York’s Indian Point plant.

The inside story of one of the most successful environmental restoration projects in U.S. history.

Where does NYC drinking water come from? How is it kept safe from toxins and terrorists? Alex Matthiessen clears a few things up.

A discussion with Alex Matthiessen, Riverkeeper of New York’s Hudson River and President of the organization Riverkeeper.

George Halvorson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente discusses how the new healthcare IT infrastructure paradigm can drive new strategies within the healthcare vertical industry and beyond.

The author and illustrator gets “infected” by his parents’ worries, but once he does fall asleep, finds that “dreams become good metaphors.”

You’ll need a serious technical grounding in art, but more importantly, an instinct for avoiding “over-sophistication.”

Since he first began doodling with crayons on yellow X-ray paper, illustrator David Small has loved art. But it wasn’t his first career choice.

How David Small’s experience with therapy in adolescence inspired the cathartic self-analysis of his memoir, “Stitches.”

David Small doesn’t care if you call his “Stitches” a “comic book,” but his inspiration lies with the likes of Tolstoy and Flaubert.

A conversation with the illustrator and author of “Stitches.”

The UT psychologist admires “people who acknowledge the world as a complex place,” and his favorite example is someone far outside his discipline.

How tailoring living spaces to residents’ personalities may boost the success rate of community housing.

Understanding animals’ “personalities,” says psychologist Sam Gosling, can help us better match them with owners and tasks. We may even someday see a “D-Harmony” for dogs and humans.

Misrepresenting yourself in conversation is possible, but how you arrange your home or office will give the game away.

New research suggests that we’re as skilled at seeing through social masks online as we are in the real world.

“Stereotyping” has become a dirty word, but as psychologist Sam Gosling explains, we all do it—and need to.

A conversation with Sam Gosling, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, argues that abusers should be treated the same as anyone with a debilitating disease.

Can you force yourself to crave lettuce and running? Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, examines the science of compulsion.

It could be related to the drug-like state of withdrawal that comes when you severely decrease the amount of sugar in your system, says Nora Volkow, Director of the National […]

Scientist Nora Volkow’s research shows links between food and addiction. Food, just like drugs, is linked to dopamine.

Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, pinpoints genetic and environmental reasons that render some people vulnerable to drugs.

Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, separates the drug addicts from drug users.

Drug addiction researcher Nora Volkow walks us through the singular chemical that drives substance abuse.

A conversation with the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

“Stitches” is only the second graphic novel ever to be nominated for a National Book Award. The author discusses what the honor meant to him and why his dark memoir […]