SOCIETY HAS FUNDAMENTALLY changed how it views sexuality in general and same-sex love in particular. The Vatican would have us believe that all has changed for the worse and that our society's problems come from the sexual revolution. But we would do well to consider the progress that ...
‘How Minds Change brings us face to face with the radically weird science of how our thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs are actually formed, and how they can, for better or worse, be modified. The sensation this book creates of being a bit of a stranger to one’s own mind is not ent...
On mindful running, he says: “The mental benefits of running are vast and individual. They range from personal reports of people describing how running has changed their lives—whether allowing them to reconnect with their bodies, making them happier, or calming down their minds—to scientific ...
I believe these ideas are all powerful enough that all kinds of people could be brought along. And what I learned in the book from all these different types of Persuaders I wrote about the book was originally called persuasion, but I changed it to the Persuaders because I realized it was ...
In 2050, transportation will have immensely changed.到2050年，交通运输将发生巨大的变化。With experimentation focused on self-driving cars already underway from car manufacturers such as Tesla, it is not much of a stretch to believe that by 2050, the technology for fully automated vehicles will ...
Nobody really knows how big Lagos is. What's indisputable is that it's growing very quickly. Between now and 2050, the urban population of Africa could triple. Yet cities in sub-Saharan Africa are not getting richer the way cities in the rest of t...
These stones are then often sold as "citrine" or "prasiolite." Vendors who sell these stones should disclose the treatment because the "commercial identity" has changed. Some light-colored agates will turn brown or orange with heating, or black if they are first soaked in a sugar solution....
In 2011, Harvard University conducted a study. In the trial, the participants had to carry out a mindfulness program for eight weeks. During this time, the density of the gray matter in their minds actually increased. In total, there were eight different regions of the mind that were affecte...
It’s still the land of opportunity, but now it’s confronting the human cost of its success. The new buzzwords: responsibility and empathy.
Is AI a threat to humanity? It depends on how people in control of AI decide to use the technology. If it falls into the wrong hands, AI could be used to expose people’s personal information, spread misinformation and perpetuate social inequalities, among other malicious use cases. ...