The year is 1954. Emmett and Billy—two young brothers from Nebraska—are on a cross-country road trip with two other boys Emmett met in juvenile detention. The four set off for New York City, but the other boys are scammers who steal the car. Stranded but determined to track them down, Emmett and Billy embark on […]
The COVID Vaccine was Built on Centuries of Innovation
In the early days of the pandemic, a common worry was how long it would take to develop a vaccine. Typically, a given vaccine takes about 10 years to go to market. Yet experts managed to develop, test, manufacture, and deliver safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines in one year flat. How on earth did they […]
A Hypnotherapist’s Guide to the Great Beyond
Tired of the workaday world? It’s a good time to read up on hypnotherapist Michael Newton’s colorful vision of the spirit world and how it works. Here are the basics: after your body dies on Earth, your soul travels back to the spirit world where it joins a “soul group.” This community consists of about […]
Ghost Your Business
When you’re building a company, you’d do anything to help it thrive. But the best thing you can do for your long-term financial health is to become as inessential as possible. In short, you need to become a ghost. It’s not enough for your business to succeed. You also need to sell it someday—and that […]
Learn Your Parenting Triggers
An ironclad rule of parenting is that your kids will, at some point, drive you nuts. It’s totally normal, but it’s important to check in with your feelings and make sure that the frustration is rooted in the present, not the past. The next time a feeling overwhelms you as a parent, stop for a […]
Can Lifestyle Choices Suppress Cancer?
When Jane McLelland was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, she was told she had only weeks to live. At the time, she was only 35 years old. Her scientific background made her treat cancer like a research problem. Quickly, she learned that cancer cells behave like parasites, stealing and weaponizing the body’s own nutrients against […]
New Tools Require New Tricks
Many of us shifted our work and social lives into the virtual world of Zoom for long stretches of the pandemic. The company went from being popular to essential almost overnight: from 10 million users in December 2019 to 300 million in June 2020. Now that’s growth! While our reliance on Zoom has tapered off […]
Manage Your Time Like it’s Money
What would you say if you could give one last talk before you die? This question was the premise of a lecture series at Carnegie Mellon University, where professors were asked to speak as if it was their last lecture. For most professors, it was just a thought exercise. But for Randy Pausch, a computer […]
Was WeWork a Unicorn? Or a Cult?
Adam Neumann, WeWork’s co-founder, never learned to code and rarely used a computer. So how did he seemingly take over Silicon Valley? Moreover, why was he paid so much to leave? It may seem like ancient history now, but more than a decade ago, when WeWork started attracting deep-pocket investors, Neumann was described as the […]
Is the US Losing its Military Advantage?
The year before his death in 2018, Senator John McCain wrote a letter to the US secretary of defense that proposed a new national defense strategy. McCain, who was famously a war hero, strongly believed that if the US continued its military spending without making significant changes, it would lose future wars. The new strategy […]
