One important lesson: Keep pressing our limits until we reach our limits Quick Summary A retired couple completed a 4,800-mile tandem bicycle trip across America, emphasizing continuous learning and challenging limits. They found that slowing down, engaging with locals, and prioritizing nine hours of sleep daily were crucial for their journey. The experience provided a fresh perspective on retirement, highlighting the generosity of Americans and reducing daily anxieties.

Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants.

The winds of technological and geopolitical change have reached gale force and businesses everywhere must adjust their course or risk sinking. Some changes, such as price adjustments, supply-chain moves, or new marketing approaches, require insight and agility. But others demand major redesigns of processes, strategy, or even business models: genuine transformations that depend on system-wide innovation.

Many technologies can be used in both healthy and unhealthy ways. You can indulge in food to the point of obesity, or even make it the subject of anxiety. Media can keep us informed, but it can also steal our focus and drain our energy, especially social media. AI can help students learn, or it can help them avoid learning. Technology itself has no agency to choose between these paths; we do.

Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work

Rank-and-file employees are jockeying to become leading adopters of artificial intelligence

When the world feels chaotic, emotionally intelligent leaders steady others.

When the "Greatest Generation" returned home from World War II, many veterans had suffered psychic wounds that were not diagnosed or understood at the time to be PTSD. For his new book, "The Wounded Generation," historian David Nasaw researched the experiences of WWII veterans – from suffering survivor's guilt, to receiving electro-shock therapy treatments – that give insights into the emotional traumas facing veterans of all wars. To all military veterans, we thank you!

The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying the agency is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country and is sending messages that feel exclusionary.

In 1576 a theater rose in a rough-and-tumble London neighborhood. William Shakespeare would get his professional start among its players.

Life can feel like a movie where the only actor is you. Choose your cast from the parts of yourself that serve the story you truly want to tell.

The bright tones of country singers are marked by their twang, a vocal quality that makes voices easier to understand in noisy environments

At companies big and small, employees have feared being replaced by AI. The new threat: Being replaced by someone who knows AI. Related Also related Quick Summary to first link above Companies like IgniteTech are cutting staff who resist AI adoption. Accenture has trained about 70% of its 779,000 staff in generative AI fundamentals. A Gallup survey indicates over 40% of US workers not using AI believe it cannot help their work, and 11% resist changing their methods.

"There are always aspects to life that we don’t like, and that’s an inevitable part of being alive."

Metacognition — the ability to think about your thinking — can help you learn faster and make better decisions

Why we may be investing too much importance in the role of technology

Here’s how to switch from trying to thriving in the age of the ‘infinite workday.’

The Department of Data started spelunking through archaic occupations in search of disappearing jobs — but it turns out the best answer is more obvious than you think.

Overqualified job applicants are scaring off cost-conscious businesses

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