What makes your employees feel vulnerable and skeptical--and how to overcome it to build a higher-performing organization. Years ago I was one of a handful of people hired to help turn around a family owned and operated manufacturing plant that had just been sold to an investment group
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Feed SubscriptionNeuroscience Challenges Old Ideas about Free Will
Do we have free will? It is an age-old question which has attracted the attention of philosophers, theologians, lawyers and political theorists.
Read More »Belief in Relic Putter Helped Golf Scores
It takes lots of practice to shave strokes off your golf score. Or you can just really believe in your putter. Because a new study finds that people putted better when told that their putter had been used by a pro golfer
Read More »This Week In Bots: When Buck Rogers Became Real
Asimo Gets An Upgrade For robot fans, Honda's Asimo has perhaps always been the biggest treasure: He's been in development for decades, and Honda just this week revealed a refresh that makes Asimo the most advanced yet. There's a host of improvements, from slicker and faster gaits, more sophisticated movements, individually articulated fingers (flexible enough to cope with sign language) to improved voice recognition that can discern commands even when three voices are talking at once. The best way to understand how advanced this child-sized bot is nowadays is to watch this video: [youtube eU93VmFyZbg] Asimo is, arguably, just one step away from being the science fiction robots we've been seeing for years
Read More »Can Memories Be Counted?
The series Too Hard for Science? discusses ideas scientists would love to explore that they think are difficult or impossible to investigate. The Scientist: Robert Stickgold, director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Harvard Medical School
Read More »This Smell Will Boost Your Sales
Retailers have to up their game to capitalize off of holiday sales. Here's how to leverage the five senses to encourage customers to buy. Walk into any American mall during the months of November and December, and, if you can tune out the hordes of frantic holiday shoppers, you'll likely notice upbeat Christmas music, the smell of pine boughs and cinnamon, bright red candy-canes, and plenty of free samples
Read More »Lions And Tigers Bear Vocal Cords For Roars
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Read More »Bill Gates And The Chinese Government Want To Take On World Hunger
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Beijing to fund a series of revolutionary agricultural and biotech initiatives. China might be using Gates to further its economic imperialism
Read More »Bill Gates And The Chinese Government Want To Take On World Hunger
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Beijing to fund a series of revolutionary agricultural and biotech initiatives. China might be using Gates to further its economic imperialism
Read More »Bill Gates And The Chinese Government Want To Take On World Hunger
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Beijing to fund a series of revolutionary agricultural and biotech initiatives. China might be using Gates to further its economic imperialism. But maybe that's not such a bad thing
Read More »Giving Cameras The Best Autofocus Possible, Autofocus From The Human Eye
When digital cameras focus, they use a complicated and slow system that often doesn't come close to being correct. Humans, however, focus correctly in an instant.
Read More »Giving Cameras The Best Autofocus Possible, Autofocus From The Human Eye
When digital cameras focus, they use a complicated and slow system that often doesn't come close to being correct.
Read More »Giving Cameras The Best Autofocus Possible, Autofocus From The Human Eye
When digital cameras focus, they use a complicated and slow system that often doesn't come close to being correct. Humans, however, focus correctly in an instant
Read More »Robins Found Guilty in West Nile Virus Spread
West Nile virus first appeared in North America in 1999. And it quickly moved across the continent.
Read More »Young Entrepreneurs Get Break
A new White House initiative hopes to alleviate the pressure student debt places on recent grads.
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