A. J. Jacobs decided to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. He tells Steve Paulson why and some of the peculiar facts he picked up along the way.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Donovan Campbell was a Marine lieutenant who served three combat deployments as a company commander – two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor for his time in Iraq.
Los Angeles comic and humor columnist Alan Olifson reads an essay on the dangers of enjoying irony.
Anne Matthews tells Anne Strainchamps that there’s been an explosion of wildlife in America’s towns and cities.
Alan Turing was one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. His work ushered in the digital age and paved the way for computers and artificial intelligence. Andrew Hodges explains why Turing is considered the father of the computer.
One fifth of all new relationships today begin online. That’s a lot of people trusting their hearts to the algorithms of digital matchmakers.
Adam Mansbach is a white boy from an affluent Boston suburb who’s devoted himself to hip hop culture.
What makes a happy workplace? It's pretty clear that most of us want more than just a paycheck. We walso want to do something we care about. The quest to build a corporate culture around meaningful work is what led Chip Conley to the pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow and his "hierarchy of needs." At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid are baisc survival needs like food and shelter. And at the top is "self-actualization," where people reach their full potential. So what would a self-actualizing company look like?
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