I assert that if you were depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.

Robert Kaplan argues that the keys to advancement in your career is taking risks, or “playing the game with some degree of abandon.”

I am optimistic that religion is not strictly needed. But I cannot be a hundred percent sure because there is no human society where religion is totally absent so we […]

Fourth Graders seem to be able to do so much more than we give them credit for or even imagine they can.

Technology makes bombs and it can put us on Mars. Technology is neither good nor bad. It is a reflection of us.

Recognizing the gains of emerging markets like Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey is not just good manners. It’s good business.

Networking has come to take on negative connotations. Adam Rifkin was listed as Fortune’s best networker, with more connections on LinkedIn to the most powerful people in the world than […]

Robert Kaplan advises people to write down the story of their failures in order to make themselves aware of them.

On a day-to-day life in the colon is probably pretty mundane, says science writer Mary Roach.

Mastery is basically a form of intelligence that people reach after years of working in a field, years of practice, experience, some failure.

I think there are so many voices out there now weighing in at all times that no single piece of criticism can have the same impact, not at this moment […]

I made predictions for what the global economy would look like in the very long term, maybe 10, 20, 40 years down the road. We are seeing some of these […]

Predictive analytics is technology that not only gives organizations the power to predict the future but also to influence the future.

Robert Kaplan explains that his book is all about process, or teaching the steps that people need to reach their own potential.

We spend the first year teaching children to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

In the age of social media we might have large networks but few if any real relationships.

Today there is a multiplicity of outlets now through which you can get supposed economic research and access to new economic ideas.

In Space Chronicles, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes how the Soviet Union was a catalyst for the U.S. space program, and China might be considered a similar catalyst today.

Roger Moenks’s I Am Eco Warrior Project aims to stylize the environmental movement as cool or in the frontline of pop culture.

The Planetary Society is the only organization now that does optical searches, so we have a telescope that looks, if you will, for laser signals from other civilizations.

We are conscious of both more and less than affects our nervous system

Robert Kaplan explains how success is not about meeting someone else’s definition of success, but defining it on your own terms.

The tax on corporate profits is a terrible tax. Economists to this day don’t know who pays it. And that means that we really don’t know who’s bearing the burden.

Some parents need to confront the fact that their children are not normal and that they are not normal parents either.

Author and NYU professor Adam Alter delves into the psychology of “drunk tank pink.”

Art and science are really not that different in their objective. Just they’re different in the way they approach it.

While there is a chance that many of the scientific innovations that have been forecast will come true, even within our lifetime, we still can’t count on them. We have […]

What would people use a 3-D printer at home for? Probably for making things that are consumable that they need on demand.

Datafication refers to the fact that daily interactions of living things can be rendered into a data format and put to social use.

The future won’t be easier, simpler, or less uncertain than what we’re living in today. The only way to unlock the solutions to that wild terrain we’re walking into is […]