In a society full of perfectionists, many hide in shame because they inevitably fall short of such an impossible standard. Psychologist and researcher...
May 19, 2022
Brene Brown
We’ve all looked up into the night sky and pondered the vast expanse beyond, been humbled in the presence of the ocean or mountains or the stars...
May 17, 2022
Carl Sagan
The late NYU professor Neil Postman examines the cultural shift from the printed word to electronic media as the preferred form of communication. More...
May 12, 2022
Neil Postman
It’s hard to imagine that Google was once a humble start-up company like so many others. As of 2015, it was a multinational company of 65,000 em...
May 10, 2022
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
Why are we here? What is reality? Why is there something instead of nothing? Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow team up to champion science as human...
May 5, 2022
Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking
In the 1991 comedy City Slickers, there’s a memorable exchange between the film’s protagonists, in which the older, sage figure tells the ...
May 3, 2022
Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
Who is Putin? In the early 1990s he was an obscure bureaucrat, but somehow he managed to become the president of one of the largest nations on earth. ...
Apr 28, 2022
Masha Gessen
The self-help shelves at bookstores and libraries are teeming with titles about how to successfully do x, y and z. This book is less about “how ...
Apr 26, 2022
Daniel H. Pink
Mark Miodownik demonstrates his mastery of the material sciences by explaining everyday substances with everyday jargon people can grasp even without ...
Apr 21, 2022
Mark Miodownik
In the late 1500s, the era of European exploration continued at full tilt. The Dutch wondered if there was a passage to the north beyond the North Pol...
Apr 19, 2022
Andrea Pitzer
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