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The Spiritual Life of the Long-Distance Runner

You’re Not Moving to Canada: The Psychology of Post-Election Melodrama

How technology gets us hooked

Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching

Technoaddicts: turn on, touch in, swipe out

Why We Can’t Look Away From Our Screens

Subtle and insidious, technology is designed to addict us

Irresistible by Adam Alter review – an entertaining look at technology addiction

‘Irresistible’ By Design: It’s No Accident You Can’t Stop Looking At The Screen

‘Irresistible’ technology is making our kids miss social cues

Is Resistance Futile?

Kids Are Better Friends When They Spend Time Away from Screens

AdamAlter.com

Tech Backlash Grows as Investors Press Apple to Act on Children’s Use

An Underwater Art Scene Blossoms in the Ocean

Living sculpture: In a world with dying coral reefs, an artist/metallurgist sets out to create new ones

ColleenFlanigan.com

Underwater Sculptures Help Save the World’s Oceans

Build For Tomorrow

Entrepreneur

Problem-Solvers

Software Creates New Flavors, Some Not for the Squeamish

Jason Feifer

Humans 3.0

Jonathan Brill, Guest Speaker

In a world of rogue waves, US-China contest is really about survival

‘Global Futurist’ Peers Into Our Uncertain Future

Bridging the Innovation Gap

4 Lessons You Need to Learn Quickly to Unleash Innovation

Rogue Waves, And How They Drive Both Peril And Profit

How to spot tomorrow’s macrotrends before they change everything

How Businesses Turn ‘Rogue Waves’ to Their Advantage

How HP Turns Business Catastrophes to Their Advantage

Strategic Disruption That Works

How CEOs Should Rethink Risk After The Pandemic

AlanDoyle.ca

jonathanbrill.com

Alan Doyle awarded Order of Canada

Alan Doyle on Great Big Sea and being a Newfoundlander in Canada

5,200 Days in Space

Water Is Broken. Data Can Fix It.

The Dear Leader’s Heinous Act

The system of defecting

A really big show

The Big Thirst

Mislabeled as a Memoirist, Author Asks: Whose Work Gets to Be Journalism?

The Reluctant Memoirist

Shared Wounds in Korea

Reporting with a blindfold: What it’s like to be a journalist covering North Korea

What Happened in Brisbane

Public-Radio Icon John Hockenberry Accused of Harassing Female Colleagues

Fear, Loneliness, and Duty—An American Journalist on Daily Life in North Korea

Undercover in North Korea: “All Paths Lead to Catastrophe”

SukiKim.com

TheBoardlist—a leading advocate for putting more women on corporate boards—opens its platform to men of color

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: Either You Manage Me or I Manage You

15 Questions with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Choose Possibility

A new fund aims to provide diverse investors the opportunity to build wealth

Are You Still Seeing Your Person?

Therapist Lori Gottlieb Talks About the Therapists that Therapists Go To

Lori Gottlieb Wants You to Know Therapists are Humans, Too

All Stories by Lori Gottleib

Why You Should Follow Your Envy

What Your Therapist is Thinking About in That Therapy Session

Lori Gottlieb

Even Therapists Need Therapists: Lori Gottlieb on Being ‘Less Afraid to go and Talk to Somebody’

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Author Lori Gottlieb

Dear Therapist

A Psychotherapist Goes to Therapy—And Gets a Taste of Her Own Medicine

Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb on why She Started Going to Therapy Herself

Lori Gottlieb

with Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch

The Pursuit of Clarity in a Time of Plague

The Charms of Toronto for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Guns v grief: inside America’s deadliest cultural chasm

Covid-19 proves it: unity is the only remedy for 21st century global crises

The Chatbot Problem

It’s in Dreams That Americans Are Making Sense of Donald Trump

The College Essay Is Dead

Google’s AI Is Something Even Stranger Than Conscious

Of God and Machines

Design Within Limits: The Urban Agriculture Project

Stephen Marche

Breaker.org

One Great Idea For Better K-12: Turn Students Into Problem Solvers

Best of 2012: Visionaries, Organizations, and Innovations Changing the Way We Learn

Even the Gorillas and Bears in Our Zoos Are Hooked on Prozac

Understanding the animal mind… through music

Suicidal dogs and bipolar wolves

The Strange Tale of Echo, the Parrot Who Saw Too Much

Does That Cat Have O.C.D.?

Black Medical Workers Reflect on the Front Lines of Covid and Racism

Writing Medicine workshop helps healthcare workers reflect on pandemic

Dirty Birds

LaurelBraitman.com

From Healthcare Workers To The Rest Of Us — How Can We Better Cope?

Robots are leaving the factory floor and heading for your desk—and your job

Martin Ford, Author of Rise of the Robots, Is Here to Answer Questions

Will robots create more jobs than they destroy?

Review: ‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work’

The Robots Are Coming … to Take Your Job

Rise of the Machines

Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs

Q&A: ‘Rise of the Robots’ Author on AI’s Talent Crunch and the Future of Work

Martin Ford on Who’s Enjoying the Fruits of Innovation

Black women are missing from corporate leadership. The problem begins with the pipeline.

Academia Won’t Survive Without Black Scholars. To Keep Us, It Has to Change | Opinion

Why A Lack of Diversity Is Hurting Economics

Economists’ Silence on Racism Is 100 Years in the Making

100 Years Since Sadie Alexander

The Two Women Fixing the Pipeline for Black Female Economists

Sadie Alexander: Meet the First Black Woman Economist in the U.S.

Can Black businesswomen save the US economy?

“Black Women Best”: The U.S. Economy Benefits When We Center Black Women

We Analyzed the Comments on the Atrocious “Dr. Jill Biden” Op-Ed

Economic Sociology with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Steven Levitt

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

Most people are bad at arguing. These 2 techniques will make you better.

How Do You Change Voters’ Minds? Have a Conversation

This Is a Scientifically Proven Method to Reduce Anti-Transgender Prejudice

Can Millions of Deep Conversations With Total Strangers Beat Trump — and Heal America?

No, Wait, Short Conversations Really Can Reduce Prejudice

Leadershop LAB

The Only Way to Change a Voter’s Mind

What We Talk About When We Talk About Reparations

The Anger in Ferguson

Murders in Charleston

Donald Trump, Chicago, and the Lessons of 1968

The Matter of Black Lives

Inside the Trial of Dylann Roof

Opening Doors: North Carolina’s bathroom bill is reminiscent of the days of de-facto discrimination

All Articles

Working-Class Heroes

On Why We Fell for Obama’s Version of a United America

The Antifa Protests Are Helping Donald Trump

Under Trump, A Hard Test For Howard University

Q&A: Jelani Cobb on Trump, Race, and Journalism

Madness

The Best Books of 2021

Contributing Editor to The Nation

Standing Alone

Viewpoint: How We Learn to Believe in Ourselves

EyalPress.com

Psychologists Have Surprising Advice for People Who Feel Unmotivated

Struggling to Get Motivated? Don’t Ask for Advice—Give It

Lauren Eskreis-Winkler

How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution

‘But What If We’re Wrong:’ A Look At How We Will Remember The Now, Later

Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember?

Will Violence Save Football?

Don’t Tell Me What Happens. I’m Recording It.

The only TV people watch to unwind still is sports

Chuck Klosterman Is Wrong! (He Says.)

Chuck Klosterman Is Effectively Narcissistic, and You Should Read His Essays

Review: Chuck Klosterman’s 10th book finds him in top form

Chuck Klosterman’s strangely satisfying futurism

All 131 Van Halen Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best

Q&A: Chuck Klosterman on Taylor Swift, Harry Potter, and LCD Soundsystem

Return to a Showdown at Little Rock

ChuckKlostermanAuthor.com

The School Year That Changed a Nation

Former Little Rock Nine student on why her experience matters today

Surviving members of “Little Rock Nine” recall milestone in civil rights history

Unsung Heroines

Revisiting the Little Rock Chili Incident

Tall, Beautiful, and Proud: Minnijean Brown-Trickey

Minnijean Brown-Trickey: the teenager who needed an armed guard to go to school

Heather McGhee | Trustee

The Inexhaustible Optimist: Meet Heather McGhee, President of Demos

Donald Trump’s Candidacy Has Been a Wake-Up Call

‘I’m Prejudiced,’ He Said. Then We Kept Talking.

A Friendship for a More Tolerant America

A C-SPAN caller asked a black guest how to stop being prejudiced. Here’s how she responded.

Chapter 6: The Big We

Fireside Fire Drill with Jane Fonda and Heather C. McGhee

Toward a Vision for Racial Equity & Inclusion at Starbucks: Review and Recommendations

‘The Sum of Us’ Tallies the Cost of Racism for Everyone

Color of Change co-chair: Protesters see a ‘new America coming’

Heather McGhee

Heather C. McGhee

Heather C. McGhee: Distinguished Senior Fellow

Lessons from top companies on building a better data-first strategy

Retailers need to focus on customer lifetime value for long-term success

Important lessons for embracing customer lifetime value

A Fresh Look at Analytics

Why Marketers Should Embrace Consumer Privacy Regulations

How Managers Can Build a Culture of Experimentation

Author Talks: Building Consumer Trust with Google’s Neil Hoyne

Senior Fellows

Neil Hoyne

Grit Trumps Talent and IQ: A Story Every Parent (and Educator) Should Read

What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?

The Virtue of Hard Things

Why millennials struggle for success

Angela Duckworth on Passion, Grit and Success

Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

A UPenn psychologist says there’s one trait more important to success than IQ or talent

Why Angela Duckworth thinks “gritty” leaders are people to emulate

Grit or Quit?

Don’t Believe the Hype About Grit, Pleads the Scientist Behind the Concept

The Secret Ingredient of Successful People and Organizations: Grit

If Grit Breeds Success, How Can I Get Grittier?

A UPenn psychologist says ‘grit’ is key to success in life — here’s how to become a grittier person

“You’re No Genius”: Her Father’s Shutdowns Made Angela Duckworth a World Expert on Grit

Graduating and Looking for Your Passion? Just Be Patient

In the Quest for Lasting Behavior Change, Two Researchers Lead the Charge

The Fierce Vulnerability of Angela Duckworth, Bestselling Author of ‘Grit’

There Are 3 Things We Have to Do to Get People Wearing Masks

Across the Globe, a Growing Disillusionment with Democracy

AngelaDuckworth.com

How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’

Can Yascha Mounk Save Liberal Democracy?

The Demise of Liberalism

Don’t write off populists just yet

Containing Trump

How Did I Celebrate Becoming American? Protesting Trump

Trump’s post-London tweets are a bad omen

Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism?

“The Good Fight” Podcast

The Past Week Proves That Trump Is Destroying Our Democracy

America Is Not a Democracy

The Insanity Offense

The Rise of McPolitics

Still the One

YaschaMounk.com

Dystopian Democracy—and How the Brave Fight Back

How to Stop the Bullies

Defining Bullying Down

What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince?

Words That Hurt and Kill

Department of Justification

Billionaires vs. the Press in the Era of Trump

Bullying in the Age of Trump

When the Supreme Court Lurches Right

The New Front in the Gerrymandering Wars: Democracy vs. Math

She Was Convicted of Killing her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld Evidence That Would Have Freed Her.

Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration

Will Florida’s Ex-Felons Finally Regain the Right to Vote?

Charged | A True Punishment Story

How Tough-on-Crime Prosecutors Contribute to Mass Incarceration

EmilyBazelon.com

Struggling With Your Academic Writing? Try These Experiments to Get the Words Flowing.

A Psychology Experiment Unexpectedly Discovered a Man Who Can’t Cooperate Because of Brain Damage

Why Our Brains Love Fake News—And How We Can Resist It

Rethinking the Infamous Stanford Prison Experiment

JayVanBavel.com

Social Perception and Evaluation Lab

President Elect Profile

Source of the Week

Duke Initiative of Science & Society

Neurotech at Work

When Your Boss Is Tracking Your Brain

Harvard and Class

Faculty Profile

How to Host a Cocktail Party on Zoom (and have better classes, conferences and meetings, too)

Misha Glouberman’s lesson: It’s better to negotiate than fulminate

A conversation between Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti, part one

It’s Payback time (the film, that is)

MishaGlouberman.com

Margaret Atwood wins PEN Pinter Prize for political activism

Final Showdown: ‘MaddAddam,’ by Margaret Atwood

In Praise of Utopias, Not Dystopias

What’s The Next Big Dystopian Novel? Margaret Atwood Has Some Ideas

Margaret Atwood Says The Handmaid’s Tale Was a Warning for the Trump Era

The Handmaid’s Tale sales boosted by fear of Trump

How Margaret Atwood became the voice of 2017

Margaret Atwood’s Grimly Relevant Additions to the “Handmaid’s Tale” Audiobook

Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia

MargaretAtwood.ca

“Alias Grace” brings hypnotic Margaret Atwood novel to Netflix

‘Plug In Better’: A Manifesto

An Ode to the Underappreciated Spreadsheet

The Right App Can Fix Your Psychological Flaws

Yes, Smartphones Are Destroying a Generation, But Not of Kids

How to Be a Good Colleague During the Coronavirus Crisis

How Your Phone Can Help You Set Better Habits

Shaming ‘covidiots’ won’t protect communities from COVID-19

Create a Productivity Workflow That Works for You

I’ve Worked From Home for 22 Years. Here’s What I’ve Learned.

A Proposed Bill of Rights for the Remote Worker

Taking a Break Doesn’t Always Mean Unplugging

As Remote Work Becomes the Norm, Vast New Possibilities Open for Autistic People

Remote work is here to stay — and that’s good for the planet

The Wall Street Journal

How Bosses Can Lure Remote Workers Back to the Office

How Working From Home Has Changed Employees

Alexandra Samuel

Scientists Made Music from the Human Microbiome, and It’s Seriously Cool

Microfluidics for the masses

Defining Open: Biohack the Planet

The Musical Microbiome

Live from HUBweek 2017

HUBweek Change Maker: David S. Kong

DavidSunKong.com

The Community Biotechnology Initiative

Heritage Minutes: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Heritage Minutes: D-Day

Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond

Heritage Minutes: Jim Egan