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One Man’s Drive To Change Africa With A Stripped-Down Car

Back to basics: making a car for Africa

MobiusMotors.com

When 300 People Told Me I Was Fat and Ugly

I’m an Iranian American and I Used to Feel Black

This Is What the TED Conference Is Actually Like

Comedian Negin Farsad Talks about How to Make White People Laugh

When a comedian realized she could fight Islamophobia

NeginFarsad.com

Comedy in The Trump Era

You Say Up, I Say Yesterday

How Language Seems To Shape One’s View Of The World

The War Metaphor

Lera Boroditsky

How Language Shapes Thought

Babel’s Children

17 Books About Racial Inequality for Young Readers

Nic Stone: A Different Sort of Jackpot

11 Riveting YA Books Hitting Shelves in September

The Explosive Y.A. Novels Fans Have Been Waiting For

Clean Getaway

9 Children’s Books Recommended By Children’s Bookstores For Fall 2020

In This New YA Novel, A Lottery Ticket Could Change Everything For This Teen

Don’t Just Read About Racism—Read Stories About Black People Living

10 books to help you discuss anti-racism with children and teenagers

Nic Stone’s ‘Clean Getaway’ explores a mixed-race family and a travel adventure

75 Books by Black Authors We’re Reading in 2020

Nic Stone

Voices of Change

Children Don’t Always Live

Jayson Greene’s ‘Once More We Saw Stars’ is a Staggering Work of Quiet Heartbreak

How the Parents of a Toddler Killed by a Falling Brick Learned to Heal

What Music Can Never Do

Jayson Greene: Trauma is a Rip in Your Understanding of the Universe

On How Women Can Start Owning Tech

Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack Fights for Women in Tech

How This Author Is Leveling the Playing Field for Women in Tech

Behind the Scenes Stories from the Must-Read Book for Women in Tech

Meet the Woman Writing the Book on Women in Technology

As Regulatory Environment Split, Could See Three Internets, Says New America’s Wheeler

In Cyberwar, There Are No Rules

After Massive Data Breach, Equifax Directed Customers To Fake Site

Tarah Wheeler: bridging policy and tech

Women in tech: A strategy for change

Where are the women in cybersecurity leadership roles?

NATO, We Want to Go to War With You

When it’s democracy, not hackers, that crashes election websites

The Cybersecurity 202: Not just about the nukes: Biden’s opening moves with Russia elevate cybersecurity issues

Ahead of face-to-face meeting, Biden and Putin remain far apart on the facts

Cybersecurity Ignorance Is Dangerous

Should ransomware payments be banned?

As Ransomware Demands Boom, Insurance Companies Keep Paying Out

Tarah.org

Pay a Hacker, Save a Life

200 Cybersecurity Influencers On Twitter Making a Difference in 2021

The Rise of Design in Tech: Choosing “The Dirt” Over “The Cloud”

3 types of design every company needs to know

John Maeda on What Really Matters in the World of Design

Interview: John Maeda

Did I Grow Up And Become The Yellow Hand?

Diversifying Viewpoints by Design

If You Want to Survive in Design, You Better Learn to Code

Good Advice: Money Isn’t the Enemy

How to Speak Machine

Design in Tech Report 2017

It’s no longer okay to be sexist or racist. She asks why it’s still okay to be ageist.

To Age Well, Change How You Feel About Aging

MaedaStudio.com

I Hope I Get Old Before I Die

“Claim Your Age”: Ashton Applewhite Gets Fired Up About Aging & the Workplace

Don’t Believe the Ageist Myths. We Only Get Better in Our Golden Years

Why Do We Treat Old People Like Babies? That’s Ageism.

How Did Old People Become Political Enemies of the Young?

ThisChairRocks.com

60 Over 60: Not Your Same Old List

Let’s Climb Out of The Generation Trap

Top violinist taking classical music behind bars and to the streets

Street Symphony’s Musical Activism

At 20, his experiences reach far beyond his years

Handel’s “Messiah,” On Skid Row

Through Music, Vijay Gupta Brings Healing Community to LA’s Skid Row

How 26-Year-Old Violinist Vijay Gupta Became the Most Interesting Man in the Phil

Street Symphony

Sex education is too important to be left to parents

Do Women Make Better Bosses?

Keys to Combating Coronavirus Stress and Loneliness

The Mind and Matter Column

The Village Effect

The Emotional Benefits of Getting Older

How To Survive The Quarantine: 25 Brilliant Books To Give You Information, Insight And Inspiration

SusanPinker.com

The Science of Staying Connected

What Makes Social Connection So Vital To Our Well-Being?

Earth’s Last Unexplored Wilderness

Brain Storm 2012

The great indoors

What Roller Derby Can Teach Us about Our Germs

Architecture May Influence Which Microbes Surround You

Microbe vs. microbe

Scientists Use DNA of Dust to Trace Where an Object’s Been

This Startup Is Tracking Microbes to Figure out Where Your Shoes Were Really Made

New test allows people to swab for coronavirus on surfaces in public places

In 50 Years We’ll Be Shocked That We Lived With Unclean Air In Buildings

If walls could talk

Green Lab

This Man Makes Data Look Beautiful

Commemorative Calculus: How an Algorithm Helped Arrange the Names on the 9/11 Memorial

PopTech interview: Data visualizing Malcolm Gladwell, NASA’s Kepler project and color with Jer Thorp

Jer Thorp

Jer Thorp: Data Artist

In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now

The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells – review

The Strange Optimism of Climate Alarmist David Wallace-Wells

We’re reading The Uninhabitable Earth, by David Wallace-Wells

It is absolutely time to panic about climate change

2038

The 3 Big Things That People Misunderstand About Climate Change

Time to Panic

How Bad Is the Ukraine War for Climate Change?

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells Climate Newsletter

Michelle Coles Time Travels Through History

Michelle Coles Takes Readers on Journey Through Struggle for Black Equality

Michelle Coles Brings Historical Facts to Life in Black Was the Ink

Michelle Coles Author Profile

Michelle Coles’ Debut Novel Wins 2022 Grateful American Book Prize

Michelle Coles

Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’

Kate Crawford interview: How AI is exploiting people and the planet

‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might AI Label You?

Microsoft’s Calling It Quits on Creepy Emotion Recognition Tech

Range of Emotion

Excavating AI

Anatomy of an AI System

KateCrawford.net

Mets’ Psychologist Helps Players Catch Their Breath

This Video Will Help You Stop Being Lazy

JonathanFader.com

The New You

Toy Designer Cas Holman Is Obliterating Old Notions of Play

The Case For Letting Kids Design Their Own Play

Cas Holman’s Search for the Ideal Playground

Cas Holman on the Possibilities of Play

Designing for Free Play with Cas Holman

Cas Holman’s Toys Empower Children to Ask Big Questions

Abstract | Cas Holman: Design for Play

CasHolman.com

Must-Read Career And Leadership Books For 2022

What Should You Choose: Time or Money?

Does More Free Time Make Us Happier?

Happier Hour Starred Review

Treat Your Weekend Like a Vacation

Simple ways to add more happiness to your daily life

Taking Control of Your Time

Author and researcher Cassie Holmes on how to find more happiness and fulfillment

Don’t Just Spend Your Time—Invest It

The best health books experts read in 2022

Cassie Holmes

Keep Happiness Going All Year Long

Gabrielle Union Options ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’ Memoir For Series Development With Sony TV

George M. Johnson Sets Filmed Reading of ‘All Boys Aren’t Blue’

Their Memoir Has Been Removed From School Libraries In 8 States. This Black Queer Author Is Fighting Back

‘Give Them The Damn Information’: Questions For George M. Johnson

George M. Johnson

Why Book Ban Efforts Are Spreading Across the U.S.

The Nostalgia for Socialism in the Age of Consumerism

The Hidden Meanings Behind “Smart” Technology Markets

The 40 Best Business Professors Under 40

Robot Invasion

Inaugural Marketing Science Institute Scholar

Inside the Mind of Markus Giesler

mgiesler.com

Markus Giesler: Associate Professor of Marketing

Anti-Abortion Groups Once Portrayed Women as Victims. That’s Changing

The Conservative Justices Don’t Seem Too Worried About the Court’s Legitimacy

Ginsburg Once Defined the Court’s Vision of Women’s Equality. Now Barrett Does.

Lizelle Herrera’s Texas arrest is a warning

Why a ‘war on abortion’ is doomed to fail

If the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anything

Aftershocks of a Reversal of Roe v. Wade

The Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade, and the future of abortion rights in America

MaryRZiegler.com

Roe’s Death Will Change American Democracy

The Sanctification of George Soros

These Ultraconservative Brothers Pulled Strings in Reagan’s Washington. Then One of Them Was Outed as Gay

Being Gay Was the Gravest Sin in Washington

jameskirchick.com

10 Principles for Embracing Productive Conflict

Papers & Citations

Official Website

How to Challenge the Status Quo… and Win

Taking Away the Phones Won’t Solve Our Teenagers’ Problems

Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad)

A new book argues that anxiety is good for you, even though it feels bad

The Anxiety Paradox: Helping kids feel bad can help them feel good

Anxiety can be good for you

In Praise of Anxiety

Perfectionists: Lowering your standards can improve your mental health

A Better Way to Worry

How To Cope With Fall Anxiety

DrTracyPHD.com

Wise Therapeutics

In Their Own Words: Michael Landsberg

Michael Landsberg Takes A Personal Approach To Mental Health With #SickNotWeak

Mental illness isn’t a weakness: Landsberg

Michael Landsberg: depression doesn’t always look the same

Sick Not Weak

Michael Landsberg goes on the record about mental health, power of social media

Q and A: TSN’s Michael Landsberg on the ‘deep hole’ of depression

Tricia Clarke-Stone: Putting Passion Ahead of Pedigree

Anthony Foxx: Grit Goes Further Than Genius

Want a healthier corporate culture? Avoid email and embrace scoreboards

Build a ‘Quick and Nimble’ Culture

How to Build a Successful Team

How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them

Management Be Nimble

Adam Bryant

Book Review: The CEO Test

FT business books: March edition

The Ghost House of My Childhood

Whether needing to think or write, Alan Lightman has a place to go

Thinking big thoughts about the boundaries of science

What the detection of gravitational waves teaches us about patience

The Accidental Universe

Must Science Conflict With Spirituality?

The Infinity of the Small

My Dad and Kurt Cobain

MIT

Hua Hsu Gets the Book Party He Deserves

Stay True Review: A Formative Friendship Cut Short by Tragedy

13 Ways of Looking: Hua Hsu

‘New Yorker’ Writer Hua Hsu On Friendship, Grief, And Pop Culture

‘Stay True’ Review: Finding Themselves Together

Hua Hsu Contributor Page

Stay True: One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022

Hua Hsu Is True to the Game

ByHuaHsu.com

Anand.ly

The Ink

What’s Really in Your Wine?

La Paulée, Manhattan’s Homage to Burgundy

A True-Crime Documentary About the Con Who Shocked the World of Wine

Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine?

The Graphic Designer Who Maps the World’s Cities by Smell

Ignore the Snobs, Drink the Cheap, Delicious Wine

What It Takes to Be a Master Sommelier

A Daughter’s Tribute to Her Father and His Taste for Bordeaux

The App That Reminds You You’re Going to Die

Mayonnaise, Disrupted

The Nastiest Feud in Science

We’ll Always Have Sky City

How Cirque Du Soleil Turns Gymnasts Into Artists

BiancaBosker.com

CaitlanMaggs.com

Do We Judge Music More on Sight Than on Sound?

The sound of silence

How To Win That Music Competition? Send A Video

People trust eyes — not ears — when judging musicians

Why Whiz Kids Win

Best or Keegan?

Musicians’ appearances matter more than their sound

Sight dominates sound in music competition judging

Cooks Make Tastier Food When They Can See Their Customers

The Problem With Favoring Natural Talent Over Hard Work

People Favor Naturals Over Strivers — Even Though They Say Otherwise

NBA Finals: Are You a LeBron or a Curry?

Chia-Jung Tsay – UCL School of Management

2021 Best 40-Under-40 Professors: Chia-Jung Tsay, University College London

The Science of Snobbery: How We’re Duped Into Thinking Fancy Things Are Better

The CEO Who Succeeded In Making Employees Millionaires

David Cote Reveals What it Takes to be CEO of a $90 Billion Company

Honeywell’s Ex-CEO Set to ‘Kiss 100 Frogs’ in Goldman M&A Quest

‘Winning Now, Winning Later’ Author David Cote on His Secret to Corporate Creativity

The Architect of Honeywell’s Success Spotlights a $1.5 Trillion Hidden Gem at Goldman Sachs

How This Turnaround Titan Found His Direction

Former Honeywell CEO David Cote Just Wrote One of the Best Guides Ever on How to Lead a Company

Former Honeywell CEO David Cote on Investing in Both Short and Long Term

Chef Who Refuses to Be Defined by His Wok

All Eddie Huang Ever Wanted Was Everything

Paying Tribute to 52 NYC Restaurants

‘Huang’s World’ Review: Food Journalism Goes Gonzo

8 Questions with Eddie Huang

Eddie Huang on the Oppressive Whiteness of the Food World

Eddie Huang Is Starting A Movement

After the scars of ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ Eddie Huang took control on ‘Boogie’

Eddie Huang Has Come Down from the Mountain

Eddie Huang Transcends Celebrity Chefdom Again

Eddie Huang: Filmmaker Was on His List of Things to Do Even Before Chef

DataKind’s do-good data-science projects arrive in 5 more cities

Ideo Managing Director Fred Dust On The Lost Art Of Conversation

Explorer of the Week: Jake Porway

Data without borders: why I want to change the world

DataKind

Taking a Bite Out of “Wicked Problems”

James Patterson Inc.

James Patterson Explains Why His Books Sell Like Crazy

The Henry Ford of Books

Former Goldman Sachs MD Is Publishing a Book Alleging Abuse and Attack

JamesPatterson.com

Former Goldman Sachs employee says male colleagues mooed and mimicked squeezing breasts when she used lactation room