Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It? Each is best suited to different purposes, and neither is superior. Dec. 8, 2018 Credit... Erik Blad By Mr. Willingham is a psychologist at the Uni
Editor’s Note: This post is co-authored by Todd Caponi and Jeff Rosset. After reading a number of end-of-year articles predicting the trends for the coming year, myself and Jeff Rosset recognized five
1 of 4 | In this photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, a man walks past French graffiti that reads: “2008: We haven’t forgotten, Give us back our money”, a few blocks from the Champs Elysees in Pari
I n early 2016, two years into running Microsoft , CEO Satya Nadella needed advice from one of his newest employees, the cofounder of an app-tool maker Microsoft had just bought. Nadella was close to pulling off his blockbuster $27 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, but he wanted to talk about another…
The young Tesla engineer was excited. Ecstatic, in fact. It was a Saturday in October 2017, and he was working at the Gigafactory, Tesla’s enormous battery manufacturing plant in Nevada. Over the prev
AddThis Sharing Buttons According to a recent Ifop poll, Marine Le Pen holds a large lead over Emmanuel Macron. Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), receives 23.5 per cent of support, while beleaguered Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique en Marche (LREM) has only 15 per cent of support. For populist supporters…
Despite an unrelenting daily attack from CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post , the New York Times , and countless other news outlets and pundits, President Trump’s approval rating matches President Obama’
Given the presidency's evolution, Donald Trump, the overlord of American politics, is not a fluke, or some historic anomaly. He’s an inevitability. Show Caption Hide Caption Donald Trump says he has f
Stanford researchers warn that the number of animal bites is likely to rise amid climate change and developmental pressures. Rising temperatures are already exposing people in temperate climates to mo
Politics Stephen Young December 12, 2018 4:00AM Beto O'Rourke held court at Four Corners Brewery in Dallas in July 2018. Melissa Hennings click to enlarge Beto O'Rourke held court at Four Corners Brew
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Getty This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was interrogated by the House J
The opening panel of the Stigler Center’s annual antitrust conference discussed the source of digital platforms’ power and what, if anything, can be done to address the numerous challenges their abili
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc., listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Ge
On Nov. 12, 2016, a group of seven women held a meeting in New York. They had never worked together before—in fact, most of them had never met—but they were brought together by what felt like the shar
We are, almost certainly, the only intelligent life in the universe. But anyone who says they know for sure is full of hot air, argues new research. We simply don’t know enough about what’s out there
Reports on the Marriott guest data breach have suggested themost probable cause was a result of the technology platform deployed byStarwood under the name “Valhalla.” As the senior vice president of t
Foreign criminals sentenced to deportation are to be banished to a remote island off the coast of Denmark, the country's government has announced. Finance minister Kristian Jensen said the criminals w
Photo: Mehdi Taamallah/NurPhoto via Getty Images France’s gilets jaunes protesters, called yellow vests in the English-speaking press, scored one victory earlier this week. President Emmanuel Macron a
Children who use screens for seven hours or more a day are showing signs that their brain cortex is thinning prematurely. The findings show that children are at risk of deteriorating memory function,
Monday morning, the New York Times published a horrifying investigation in which the publication reviewed a huge, “anonymized” dataset of smartphone location data from a third-party vendor, de-anonymi
LinkedIn co-founder backs $35 million voter data project in ‘existential threat’ to Democratic Party Reid Hoffman’s venture complicates plans for a separate data trust project being pushed by the Demo
DeepMind’s artificial intelligence programme AlphaZero is now showing signs of human-like intuition and creativity, in what developers have hailed as ‘turning point’ in history. The computer system am
Michelle Obama has raised two apparently successful daughters , maintained an enviable marriage in the face of unbelievably trying circumstances, built her own thriving career before becoming first la
Regulation When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming. Nick Gillespie | 12.6.2018 4:45 PM Georgetown Book Shop One of the most remarkable statements ever ma
Etienne De Malglaive / Getty Images This week, protesters scaled the Arc de Triomphe, burned cars, and clashed with police in the third consecutive weekend of riots in France. More than 300 people wer
Many people were thrilled when they heard that the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics this year went to William Nordhaus of Yale University, a man known for his work on climate change. Finally, the eco
Paris: 'Yellow-vest' protesters set fire to the city Mr Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe’s popularity ratings hit new lows as the “yellow vest” protests gathered speed, according to an Ifop-
Quora, the Q. and A. Site, Says Data Breach Affected 100 Million Users Adam D’Angelo, Quora’s chief executive, in 2011. “It is our responsibility to make sure things like this don’t happen, and we fai
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018 Daytime traffic amid smog in Beijing on Sunday. China produces 27 percent of global carbon emissions, the most of any countr
Big ideas. Once a week. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we n
Chief Product Officer at Adobe, Scott Belsky, discusses his beliefs on creating the first mile of your product. His immediate suggestion is to focus on your newest customers. Why? You can learn the mo
Once, I read an essay written by someone who was struggling with depression. He didn’t want to work out, do anything productive, or even write the story. He just wanted to lay on the couch and stare i
What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. It’s n