My wife and I followed our parents’ example. Our kids didn’t always like it, but the point was to help them thrive as adults.

The internet loves a good relationship theory, especially one that feels uncannily accurate. This week’s entry comes from a man walking down a Manhattan sidewalk, calmly suggesting that your closest relationship might not be your partner, your best friend, or your sibling. It might be the coworker who survived your toxic workplace with you.

Loneliness is the pain we feel when our social connections fall short of fulfilling our needs. At its core, it reflects a fundamental human need: to feel close to and connected with others. But it is also often an invisible experience.

This week, we bring you the second part of our 2023 conversation on the perils of too much pleasure. Psychiatrist Anna Lembke explains the neuroscience behind compulsive consumption.

We built genius machines, and gave them our blind spots.

Innovation is like a garden — you need to create an environment where it can flourish.

The most successful investor of all time is retiring. Here’s what made him an American role model.

The three reasons old people are happier that work for any age

Amid significant changes to how people work and live, the ability to persevere is critical.

The misguided temptation to exaggerate poverty

DM Good morning. What are the core reasons that humans across history, and still today, appear to possess, leverage, and perhaps enjoy such (overt!) bloodlust for solving personal and collective problems, such as conflict, aggression and greed (even as continuing enjoyment within our entertainment)? Good morning, Sciart. This is one of those questions that sits at the uncomfortable intersection of our evolved nature and our aspirations for ourselves. Let me walk through seve

In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.

Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found.

DM Is a water molecule (H20) generally stable (aka: somewhat "permanent") in its solid, liquid and gaseous states; or does it diminish/return to hydrogen and liquid; or does it change into other more complex or different molecules? I realize there are "lighter" formations of water. Water molecules are remarkably stable across all three phases - solid ice, liquid water, and gaseous steam. The H₂O molecule itself doesn't spontaneously break apart into hydrogen and oxygen under

As worker loneliness increases, workplace friendships may be more important than ever, and a key driver of retaining staff

For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell. Excerpt : "However if ideas remain as discoverable as ever, but their economic impact is fading, then we need to look downstream from the laboratory. The decline in allocative efficiency should be more of a main focus — we need to throw more of our intellectual capital at understanding how to increase competitiveness and the market potential for innovative

For all its promise, tech risks instilling in students an unthinking yet false understanding of themselves, writes University of Dallas President Jonathan J. Sanford.

Here’s how effective leaders get it right

The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions Excerpt: "As Stephen Colbert explained long ago , common sense comes from thinking “from the gut, not the brain.” Psychologists have a more sophisticated way of articulating this distinction. As readers of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow or Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink know, the human mind exhibits two different systems of cognition. The first is rapid and concrete, focusing on primary represent

DM Good morning! After all our multitudes of conversations directly or indirectly which relates to my topic of today, I again want to continue to explore the essential factor(s), core(s) or most fundamental reason(s) for why humans, and by extension, collective units of humanity, so endlessly and tenaciously rely upon, display and spread unfounded confidence, certainties and outright hubris within the knowledge which they hold so dear and constantly project to others. This in