Whether it’s learning how to use a Blackberry or learning how to “twit,” General Clark is confident that politicians we’ll always be able to connect with their constituencies.

Today there are probably more Democratic politicians who have served in the military than Republicans, says General Clark. Yet history has branded the Dems as the “Mama Party.”

“Clearly we’re watching the emergence of increased military capabilities in China” says General Clark. What does this mean?

General Clark suspects that somewhere inside Pakistan there is a persuasive intelligence group that’s unconvinced of America’s commitment to their country outside of our interest in Bin Laden.

The military always knew better than to invade Iraq in 2003, but we will not leave the country in a Somalia-like situation—without a government or any national institutions.

A conversation with the former U.S. general.

Directing doesn’t just mean directing feature films anymore. Almost everyone has access to video recorders these days, and they can begin directing from their iPhones.

The only monsters that have scared the filmmaker are the ones from “Alien” and “Phantom of the Opera.” But he is “mortally afraid” of cops, big churches, and politicians.

Monster creation is not a mechanical or algebraic process. “What is important is that you riff, you riff by instinct, and you riff with the best you can.”

The filmmaker grew up Catholic but is now agnostic. He prefers to abandon himself to the embrace, or perhaps indifference, of the Universe.

Things are constantly flying through your hands as you’re trying to shape the product, says the filmmaker.

The vampires from “Twilight” and other recent shows have been “defanged” and combined with the bad boy romantic lead myth from gothic fiction. The filmmaker interprets this as a sign […]

Western culture teaches us to understand the world in terms of binaries. That’s why the myths we’ve created to explain the world need both angels and demons.

A conversation with the filmmaker and author.

The current generation is less ready to join the workforce because they’ve been shielded from competitive situations while growing up.

When it comes to networking, there is more strength in the weak ties of loose acquaintances than in the close ties you have with friends and family.

Projecting confidence is key to gaining and holding onto power—even if you’re not naturally a confident person.

A conversation with the Stanford University professor of organizational behavior.

Many good bosses have had their own bad bosses on the way up, but have patterned their management style after how not to do things.

Failure is a terrible thing, but there’s no other way for people to learn how to do most things except to screw up enough until the point where they get […]

An interview with professor of management at Stanford University.

The art of narration may have emerged as an evolutionary adaptation, says the author. “If I can tell you that right over there in that river was where the crocodile […]

Reading may have evolved from early hunters’ skills of interpreting animal tracks, which allowed them to find food and determine whether they themselves were being hunted.

Books are important because electronic storage is fairly fragile. That said, e-books provide many advantages, especially for those with dyslexia and other reading disabilities.

The author tells us a Canadian sex joke.

Authors are always trying to disguise which parts of the novel were most difficult to write. For Atwood those parts are always the exposition, she says.

For the author, it’s not a question of sitting around and wondering what to write; it’s a question of deciding which of the “far-fetched and absurd” ideas she’s going to […]

New forms of communication are just modernizations of things that already existed earlier in some other form, says the author.

The sprightly 71-year-old has really taken to Twitter and now has over 85,000 followers.

The author grew up reading books like “1984” and “Brave New World” and wanted to solve the problem to which these types of books so often fall prey—too much exposition.