Thinking Clearly and Analytically

Imag­ine spend­ing the sum­mer pol­ish­ing your PhD the­sis in the library. Every day you take the sub­way, a train going up North to the university. One day you real­ize that the trains going South can bring you to the beach. Noth­ing is wrong with some leisure. You cal­cu­late that if you spend half of the […]

Every person making a difference has a That's Funny moment. Now, I'm not talking about a humorous moment. We have those as well, but that's a topic for a different blog post. Instead, I'm referring to the ability to see things that don't quite make sense. Seeing these things makes you take

Mak­ing tech­nol­o­gy an ally in men­tal health care (Fun­dación Inno­vación Bankinter): Inter­est in using tech­nol­o­gy for men­tal health dates back to the mid twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. “Stud­ies began back in the 1960s, giv­en the grow­ing con­cern about addic­tion in chil­dren (espe­cial­ly) and adults,” clar­i­fies Álvaro Fer­nán­dez Ibáñez about the begin­ning of this discipline. Sesame Street, the […]

Anx­i­ety can feel like a heavy weight that we didn’t ask to car­ry. Who wouldn’t love to get rid of it? But neu­ro­sci­en­tist Wendy Suzu­ki wants to chal­lenge the way we look at our anx­i­ety. In fact, her new book is called Good Anx­i­ety: Har­ness­ing the Pow­er of the Most Mis­un­der­stood Emo­tion. If you’re skep­ti­cal, so […]

When you experience stressful events, whether personal (waiting for a medical diagnosis) or public (political turmoil), a physiological change is triggered that can cause you to take in any sort of warning and become fixated on what might go wrong.

Kids have a special way of cultivating creativity--and some even see their crafty ideas develop into lucrative business opportunities. Did you know that kids invented the trampoline, popsicles, and earmuffs?

Neuroscientist Nina Kraus draws a direct connection between the sonic environments we live in and who we are in her new book, “Of Sound Mind.”

When the state of your business and workplace is changing at the speed of light, here’s how to ensure you respond to challenges.

— Brain teas­er: Please con­sider Lin­da, a 31-year-old woman, sin­gle and bright. When she was a stu­dent, in high school and in col­lege too, she was deeply involved in social jus­tice issues, and also par­tic­i­pated in envi­ron­men­tal protests. Which is more prob­a­ble about Linda’s occu­pa­tion today? a) Lin­da works as a TV reporter; b) Lin­da is a bank […]

Author Johann Hari says, ‘Your attention didn’t collapse; it was stolen by big and powerful forces. You haven’t become weak. You’ve been hacked.’ Here’s how to reclaim your brain.

“Don’t go back!”This is the advice we’ve been giving district and school leaders across the country about their daily schedule. No amount of money o

A few years ago, I asked a sam­ple of adults to think about all of the dis­agree­ments that they have with oth­er peo­ple, from minor dis­agree­ments about rel­a­tive­ly unim­por­tant issues to major dis­agree­ments about impor­tant mat­ters. Then, I asked them to esti­mate the per­cent­age of dis­agree­ments they have with oth­er peo­ple in which they are […]

“This is your brain on drugs” has been a scare tactic used without much success.  What did they get wrong?  What were they right about?  The campaign to look at the dangers of drug use and the adol…