Investing is about more than just crunching numbers. It’s also about observing the world around us, recognizing trends, and understanding what those trends will ultimately mean in terms of dollars.

In January, the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton gave a lecture to Are We Doomed?, a course at the University of Chicago. He spoke via Zoom about whether artificial intelligence poses an existential ...

Consider this moment in history from a teenager’s perspective. The world inflamed by wars, hatred, and conflict. Social media platforms that encourage individuals to affirm one correct answer to every ...

As an educator, I firmly believe that nurturing the critical thinking skills of the students is one of the most important aspects of what teachers do. Critical thinking has been cited as allowing ...

Entrepreneurs often limit their vision by focusing on achievable goals instead of transformative ones. This "practical thinking" is often fear disguised. To break free, question the origins of your ...

We all struggle with self-control sometimes. We tell ourselves only one more piece of chocolate, one more glass of wine, one more episode of a binge-worthy series before bed, but then carry on ...

Following his defeat at the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, Marc Antony heard a rumour that Cleopatra had committed suicide and, in consequence, stabbed himself in the abdomen—only to discover that ...

Writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and amid another wave of hype about the potential of new technologies to solve humanity’s biggest problems, our goal for How to Think About Progress: A Skeptic’s ...

If you are the type of person who is able to put on your own oxygen mask, literally and figuratively, before others', read no further. You're good. But if you, like many women, are so accustomed to ...

It is a long-standing habit of military historians to describe changes in warfare in terms of two biological paradigms: more or less steady evolution on the one hand and punctuated equilibrium on the ...

Today, Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. But he remembers what it was like to be a kid who struggled with his emotions. “I would sometimes just sit ...