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William James, the father of Western psychology, in 1902 defined spiritual experiences as states of higher consciousness, which are induced by efforts to understand the general principles or structure of the world through one’s inner experience.

When I moved from Brazil to the United States to train as a neuroscientist, I was shocked to discover that most of our ‘knowledge’ about the human brain in fact came from another species: the mouse. This struck me as pretty strange.

The farmers of Japan say thunderstorms are good luck– they make the mushrooms grow.1 And mushrooms and thunderstorms are partners in folklore all over the world. The ancient god Soma may even have been a mushroom himself.

Companies increasingly rely on diverse, multidisciplinary teams that combine the collective capabilities of women and men, people of different cultural heritage, and younger and older workers.

“We’re constantly bouncing off other people and looking at other people as a mirror of us. Our very sense of who we are is intertwined with what we see when we see other people look at us.”

In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. Business leaders believe a strong organizational culture is critical to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magic force that few know how to control.

We believe cross-functional collaboration accelerates delivery of better outcomes for our users. However, it’s not always obvious what exactly that might look like. What practices are necessary to the team’s success? What values should the team embody?

Desde que Evernote abrió sus oficinas en Chile en Mayo de 2019, centenares de personas han postulado para conocernos y ser parte de nuestro equipo.

To be effective in organizations today, you must be able to influence people. Your title alone isn’t always enough to sway others, nor do you always have a formal position.

El Presidente Sebastián Piñera Echeñique hace negocios con sus amigos. Con o sin fideicomiso ciego. Esas apuestas, suyas y de sus herederos, lo han mantenido expuesto a la desconfianza pública.

I’m sitting in the back of the meeting, watching the minutes tick by, unsure how to interrupt the continuous flow of voices competing for airtime that make it harder and harder to get a word in edgewise.

It was a little past 1:00 a.m, and I sat alone at the dining room table. If only I had listened to my tired body and gone to sleep, I might have saved a friendship and a business partnership. Instead, I pushed through and gave overly harsh feedback on a letter.

False teeth could one day be a thing of the past, thanks to the discovery of an antibody that sparks the regeneration of lost teeth.

Our political opinions and attitudes are an important part of who we are and how we construct our identities. Hence, if I ask your opinion on health care, you will not only share it with me, but you will likely resist any of my attempts to persuade you of another point of view.

One afternoon in February 2016, I watched in rapt attention as a team of scientists unveiled the first definitive evidence for the existence of gravitational waves – ripples in space and time, produced by a pair of massive black holes crashing together 1.3 billion light-years away from Earth.

Created in 2018, Uniswap is currently one of the largest decentralized exchanges in the crypto world. It’s unicity, pardon the pun, comes from it’s outstanding performance compared to the leading centralized exchanges in terms of funds turnover and popularity.

When I re-made my site with Eleventy, the pages didn't change much, but I had loads of fun adding new features. The most fun was webmentions and I'm here to convince you to add them! First, let me step back and explain why webmentions exist—the IndieWeb.

El caso de Colombia es muy curioso. Ningún país latinoamericano ha padecido tantas guerras civiles y, sin embargo, con la misma seguridad puede decirse que ningún otro ha sido más libre, civil y democrático en ese mismo período.

Jessica Riskin teaches History at Stanford. Her latest book is The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick. (March 2021)