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The future of the workforce is about building stronger communities, not talent hunting for the most aggressively competitive employees. Millennials are leading the way in making this change.
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Killing prejudice with kindness is probably the best way to go, says former climate skeptic Michael Shermer. The secularist discusses his history with religion and how he speaks about it now.
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Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek argues that understanding basic physical laws is sufficient to grasp how the mind works, but that may not explain everything about the mind.
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What often begins as a former girlfriend or boyfriend making contact on Facebook can easily result in a physical relationship. Psychiatrist Gail Saltz explains how to avoid cheating on your partner.
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People learn in a variety of ways, explains educational pioneer Kelly Palmer. At LinkedIn, she’s helped build a platform that offers on-demand learning to adults building their careers.
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After the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris, technology expert Marc Goodman shares how insurgents use their media savvy and technological prowess to outmaneuver law enforcement.
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We are living in the lucky days of cancer research. Two revolutions in cancer therapy — one successfully tested by President Jimmy Carter — are giving patients of all kinds a new hope.
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Bullying has always been discussed in education reform, and typically the solution falls on students themselves, but what if schools — as impersonal institutions — are partly at fault?
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Echoing Bill Nye’s favorite phrase, Tom from Western Australia asks after the practical implications of quantum mechanics. It’s a tough sell, explains Nye, but computing power is on the short list.
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When magazines stopped serializing novels, and people instead bought entire books, nobody said fiction lovers were “binge reading,” so Netflix’s Todd Yellin asks why the term applies to TV.
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There are a number of myths surrounding public performance that spoken-word poet Sarah Kay helps to dispel. Perhaps the chief myth is that you can’t both be nervous and enjoy the experience.
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The con artist is more of a psychologist than a thief, explains Maria Konnikova. If fact, con artists will never actually steal anything from you; they’ll convince you to hand it over freely.
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Probably few organizations value self-motivation like the US Marine Corps, so when their recruits began showing deficiencies, officers dug into the latest psychologist research. Here’s what they found.
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Today’s video is part of a series on genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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Steve Jobs is known for his effective speeches and presentations in narrative form, but twice in his career he leveraged the ceremony as a unique communication tool to get his point across.
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The ability to desalinate water on an industrial scale would change the world, says Bill Nye the Science Guy, bringing fresh water to populations all over the globe that currently going without.
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Some of the most impactful studies on out-of-body and near-death experiences were done by the U.S. Air Force when it purposefully induced the conditions on fighter pilots.
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Even though adultery is punishable by death in some societies, it still occurs regularly. This tells Dr. Helen Fisher there is probably a genetic predisposition toward cheating on your partner.
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Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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As long as anti-abortion activists oppose social welfare programs, which provide a safety net for children after they are born, the former governor will no longer refer to them as pro-life.
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Scientific discovery is more complex than simply observing the physical world. How we observe and how we draw conclusions is driven by the human imagination, says Mr. Shatner.
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Chief film critic A.O. Scott discusses how virtual reality may change the movie-going experience. People have predicted the death of cinema over and over, he says, but people still love going to the movies.
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Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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Religious practices run deep in many cultures and their influence will be slow to fade away. But this shouldn’t deter a scientific outlook from helping us make practical decisions in life.
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Today’s video is part of a series on female genius, in proud collaboration with 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival.
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Scientific advancement is more than a series of experiments: it is often a debate among scientists with fundamentally different points of view. Niels Bohr knew this firsthand thanks to Einstein.
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The achievements of the Millennial generation are already obvious, says playwright and comedian Lewis Black. And whatever their negative qualities, they pale in comparison to older generations.
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Companies succeed when they invest in human capital, which used to just mean a company’s employees. Today, it means investing in the company’s customers as well.
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It’s no longer car companies innovating the future of the automobile. Driving is becoming a computerized technology, says Brad Templeton, who consulted Google on its autonomous cars.
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