Leadership is about pushing new ideas; it is about mobilizing and motivating people and getting them to act as a collective team. It’s about projecting commitment and expressing enthusiasm to get ...

Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. After the contestant ...

A few years back, I wrote a couple of pieces for this blog on how to change people’s minds, even if what they believe is categorically wrong. Cook and Lewandowsky’s (2011) debunking handbook was ...

The United Nations, a fraternity of 193 member states dedicated to “shared solutions that benefit all of humanity,” is a significant accomplishment for international diplomacy. But from there, it is ...

When Daryl van Tongeren lost his beloved brother, unexpectedly, at age 34, the loss made no sense to him. How could it? Van Tongeren was a lifelong Christian with “a very certain view of God and how ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – I recently was working out on the rowing machine. I kept thinking, “I’m getting tired.” I kept thinking, “I’m almost 70. I’m too old for this.” I kept thinking … That was part of the ...

When I’m teaching new poets about how to think about where a poem might be inside themselves, I often offer up the sonnet “Bright Star,” by John Keats. It begins: For those who don’t know the sonnet ...

Humanity is diving headlong into a global experiment. More than 1 billion people have a new and unprecedented source of information and cognitive guidance: artificial intelligence (AI) trained on ...

Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C. After the contestant chooses, say, option B, the host reveals one of the remaining choices ...