The "How" of Thinking
On a nuts-and-bolts level, what's happening in your brain when you think? This is one of the hottest topics in neuroscience....
How Smart are You?
How do we measure intelligence? The ancient Chinese had some of the first tests designed to evaluate a person's smarts: a game called...
Your mysterious second brain has a message for you…
“Woman Saves Daughter's Life with Her own Feces”. That eye-grabbing headline graced the newspaper of the woman next to me on my flight...
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Flow
The Declaration of Independence famously champions "the pursuit of happiness". For many, joy and personal fulfillment are one and the...
The Real Da Vinci Code
Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Vinci, April 15th, 1452. In his lifetime, he painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He was a sculptor,...
Why You are More Like a Girl Scout Than You Think...
In Daniel Pink’s new book, To Sell is Human, he argues that selling is a natural byproduct of living in groups. If you want to make a...
What Makes Meetings So Terrible? The Asch Conformity Paradigm, For One Thing.
There is a special dialect unique to the corporate world. If you work at a big company, your brain might at this moment be reflexively...
Measuring the Unmeasureable
"Metric" is a kind of sexed up word for measurement, popular among the corporate crowd. The interesting thing about "metric" is that it...
Hey, Wake Up!
On May 23, 1987 Kenneth Parks drove to his in-laws' house in the middle of the night and brutally murdered his wife’s mother and...
To Buy or Not to Buy, that is the question
StartFragment Every day, billions of dollars are exchanged for goods or services in that most American pastime known as shopping. Some...
