How smart companies are opening up strategic initiatives to involve front line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors.Why are some of the world's most successful companies able to stay ahead of...

A modern classic about how people really make decisions: drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis.Since its publication twenty years ago, Sources of Power has been enormously influential. The book has...

An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack.In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of...

Exploring more than seventy-five well-known paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences showing how reason and logic can dispel the illusion of contradiction.Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A...

Taking "Gangnam Style” seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture.In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its...

A concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.The word "sustainability” has been connected to everything from a certain kind of economic...

The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes—with or without "brain training.”Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we...

Is anger eternal? Righteous? Reflections on the causes and consequences of an phenomenon critical to our intimate and public lives.From Aristotle to Martha Nussbaum, philosophers have explored the moral status of anger. We get angry for...

The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades."Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think about change."—David Brooks, The New York TimesHow does...

Accessible and essential coverage of today's challenging, speculative, cutting-edge science from Quanta Magazine.If you're a science and data nerd like me, you may be interested in "Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire" and "The Prime...

The evolution of the surfboard, from traditional Hawaiian folk designs to masterpieces of mathematical engineering to mass-produced fiberglass. Surfboards were once made of wood and shaped by hand, objects of both cultural and...

The definitive book on leadership in the digital era: why digital technologies call for leadership that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity.Certain ideas about business leadership are held to be timeless, and certain...