The Google Glass opens up new doors for technological and social interactions, but in an era where instant fact checking is possible, will Google Glass enable us to remain honest […]

People take a narrow view of decision making. They look at the problem at hand and they deal with it as if it were the only problem. Very frequently it’s […]

There’s an innate drive to move to cities, where people are more clustered. The frequency for interactions is so much higher in a city as opposed to a rural area. […]

You’ve got to hope somehow that presidents understand that the bully pulpit is still a tool that they possess.

As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you’re a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.

An oyster reef costs about the same amount of money – $1 million per mile – as a sea wall. So as an infrastructure investment, it’s a tie. But when […]

We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold – moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters – and that allows us to predict in great detail […]

Eric Siegel never thought he would experience a machine acting in a way that he would subjectively consider to be intelligent. IBM’s Watson, however, changed all of that.

Gardiner, author of the new book, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, has a unique perspective on Bach. He is both a historian and a world-renowned conductor who has […]

Free always wins over something that costs something.

In the United States we have shamefully convinced most high school students that they either need to go to Harvard or they need to go to McDonald’s.

We are seeing students and teachers using technology-enabled tools that make learning more real time, more powerful, and it gives them access to things they wouldn’t have had access to […]

Insurance is what you buy when you don’t know if something bad is going to happen. Maybe I’ll crash my car. Maybe I won’t. I don’t know. So I’m going […]

Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.

Why are we so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.

The hacker Kevin Mitnick says he treated his fugitive status like a big video game.

Bayes’ Rule is a formalization of how to change your mind when you learn new information about the world or have new experiences.

Our phones are starting to know us better than we know ourselves. They’re starting to see patterns that we don’t detect on a day-by-day basis, but the phone sees this […]

If we want to get serious about improving the quality of education globally, we need to improve the professional status of teachers. In a new study by The Varkey GEMS […]

The sunk cost fallacy means making a choice not based on what outcome you think is going to be the best going forward but instead based on a desire not […]

The more players that want to create original content and finance it the more exciting it is in the world of ideas.

Lawrence Krauss describes quantum computing and the technical obstacles we need to overcome to realize this Holy Grail of processing.

The basic technologies to enable us to look inside the brain and see its functioning are growing exponentially. And they’re at a point now where we can actually see individual interneural connections forming and firing.

Elon Musk tends to be interested in industries that “a lot of people think are impossible or think you can’t succeed at – that’s usually where there’s opportunity.”

You’re not going to walk into these big offices with 2,000 people in the future.

How donut sellers in New York City, the rock band Radiohead and the country of Indonesia make breakthroughs by giving trust away.

John Seely Brown talks about the need for organizations to create scalable learning in this recent commencement address at Singapore Management University.

John Seely Brown receives an honorary degree from Singapore Management University.

What do you want your brand to capture? And who knows about your brand? Is it just your immediate work team, is it people outside?

Most people are conflict-averse, so if you express anger and use strong words, most people will back off.