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Upon hearing the breaking news that the so-called “faster-than-light” neutrino finding was due to an error from a loose connection in wiring, it seemed appropriate to share about a film that captures the human side of one of the best known scientific flubs in recent history: that of cold fusion.

Turnaround specialist Glenn Blickenstaff, in the third of five articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success. This week he explains that too much praise and back-patting can slow progress

Turnaround specialist Glenn Blickenstaff, in the third of five articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success.

Turnaround specialist Glenn Blickenstaff, in the third of five articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success. This week he explains that too much praise and back-patting can slow progress. Your company might be failing now but you’re well on your way to turning things around if you’ve been following this five-part series of articles that outline how to execute a successful turnaround.

Psychologists warn that stated beliefs and actual behavior often don't match up when it comes to innovation. Among young entrepreneurs , creativity is like gold, with just about every aspiring business owner proudly honing their reputation as an innovator. Of course this makes sense—no one is going to pay for the same old thing they have already

“Three seconds to shoot. It’s Reggie! And it’s Indiana by eight!” Reggie Miller, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant

Cooperation confounds us: Humans are the only members of the animal kingdom to display this tendency to the extent that we do, and it’s an expensive endeavor with no guarantee of reciprocal rewards. While we continue to look for answers about how and why cooperation may have emerged in human social and cultural evolution, we are beginning to trace the developmental roots of prosocial behaviors. A recent PLoS paper presents evidence that children as young as 15 months old may have a rudimentary sense of fairness

Gender is so fundamental to the way we understand the world that people are prone to assign a sex to even inanimate objects. We all know someone, or perhaps we are that person, who consistently refers to their computer or car with a gender pronoun (“She’s been running great these past few weeks!”) New research

Early in his new book, Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer (Crown Business, 2011), Duncan Watts tells a story about the late sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, who once described an intriguing research result: Soldiers from a rural background were happier during World War II than their urban comrades. Lazarsfeld imagined that on reflection people would find the result so self-evident that it didn't merit an elaborate study, because everyone knew that rural men were more used to grueling labor and harsh living standards. But there was a twist, the study he described showed the opposite pattern; it was urban conscripts who had adjusted better to wartime conditions