Nobel Prize winners with broad interests routinely outperform their peers. I used to think that people who had lots of hobbies were unfocused and “scattered.” If somebody had too long of an answer to

In her regular attendance at the San Jose federal courthouse for hearings in her high-stakes criminal fraud case, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been flanked by expensive lawyers. But in an Ari

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Larry Belardi and Bobbie LaPorte are longtime San Francisco residents, but they are planning to leave California for Nevada next year.

Health & Fitness It was California's deadliest week this flu season, which continues to hit young people especially hard. Posted Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:36 am PT Flu-related illnesses and deaths spike

(Bloomberg) -- Companies in the Nasdaq 100 are headed into earnings season with momentum that approaches the unprecedented, their value up by more than $1 trillion since October. Now the world finds o

WILLIAM GIBSON NOTICES THINGS others miss. While his science fiction novels are often described as prescient, what defines Gibson’s body of work is the extraordinary refinement of his focus on the pre

E very morning of my Joe Rogan experience began the same way Joe Rogan begins his: with the mushroom coffee. It’s a pour-and-stir powder made from lion’s mane and chaga—“two rock-star mushrooms,” acco

Chinese authorities added four cities to their lockdown of Wuhan, home to a deadly new virus spreading rapidly, on Thursday afternoon, bringing the total population within the transport shutdown zone

The acclaimed playwright and screenwriter David Mamet told Breitbart News on Thursday that he thinks Donald Trump is a “great president,” while liberal reaction to his presidency has been “psychotic.”

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Address the real reasons you procrastinate and you’re more likely to start achieving your goals. With offices closed in nations around the world, many of us are grappling with how to stay productive a

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While I have reflected on the corrosive effects that fake and distorted media are having on our society’s well-being for the past few years, I am now more concerned about it than ever. To me media dis

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January 15, 2020 The Hidden Dimensions of Sustained Performance – Moe Abdou Interviews Kapil Gupta on The 33voices Dialogue Key Takeaways The two most important questions to ask oneself: “What is it t

Nine years ago, Rich and I were freezing our butts off on a rickety chairlift on the backside of Squaw Valley when we decided to go for it. Looking back, we were far too naïve to know exactly what it was, but we definitely knew what it wasn’t—cranking out spreadsheets for 90 hours each week for the…

Somewhere near the heart of the Ukraine scandal is the oligarch Dmytro Firtash. Evidence has long suggested this fact. But over the past week, in a televised interview and in documents he supplied to

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Vanessa Bainwas less than a year into her gig as an Instacart shopper when the companyannounced it would no longer allow tipping on its app. Instacart instead beganimposing a 10 percent “service fee”

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The Masonic temple. Theresa Cannizzaro Theresa and Atom Cannizzaro bought a former Masonic temple and are converting it into a home. The second floor, their living space, has a large open-floor concep

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This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about nuclear weapons, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Released on January 29, 1964,

“What keeps you up at night?” That’s the question Homeland showrunner Alex Gansa annually posed to Washington insiders before putting fingers to keyboard on a season of his Emmy-winning Showtime drama

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There has always been hypocrisy in politics and government. But several cities in California may be taking that standard to a new level when it comes to their supposed battle against climate change. H

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) told reporters on Monday that the Senate Republican caucus doesn't have the votes to dismiss the articles of impeachment against President Trump , who endorsed an "outright dism

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