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In the early 1960s, Marvel Comics introduced a series of bright-costumed superhero characters that would evolve into a modern American mythology for millions of readers.

Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web.

Dimitri's passion is developing actionable strategies to optimize the cognitive, emotional, and social development of preschool children.

Knowledge isnΓÇÖt what it used to be. For about 2,500 years, we have engaged in a multi-generational task of nailing knowledge down and building on what we knew.

It has been said about Apple that its business practices are like a bumble bee: It shouldnΓÇÖt fly, but it does. And how well it does.

Everyone thinks they know the Internet. The most powerful information network ever conceivedΓÇöan indispensable tool and constant companion in both our professional and personal lives.

What habit do you want to change?

Analogies are a powerful, memorable and often playful way of understanding and communicating complex ideas.

In Subliminal, Leonard Mlodinow presents an illuminating examination of the ways in which the unconscious mind shapes our lives.

In Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner addresses the question of how do we create the next generator of innovators?

Howard Rheingold is a digital community builder. In Net Smart, he shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.

In an age where technology companies censor and turn over usersΓÇÖ personal information at the behest of government, internet policy expert Rebecca MacKinnon argues a different approach to

The media labeled Lenore Skenazy America's

Science has long struggled to pinpoint where, precisely, our uniqueness resides.

Halo: Primordium continues the story of the enigmatic creators and builders of the Halos that began in Halo: Cryptum.

Bell Labs holds an unparalleled role as an incubator of innovation and birthplace of the century's most influential technologies.

In Going Solo, sociologist Eric Klinenberg presents a revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom: the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone.

In the centuries since Newton, scientifically minded people have thought of Earth as a lonely rock orbiting an average star in a universe where no place is special.

From Microsoft spam filters to DNA decoding and the drones over bin LadenΓÇÖs compound, BayesΓÇÖ rule pervades modern life.

All of us are attuned to things that are new or unfamiliar because they convey vital information about potential threats and resources. The love

William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking first novel, Neuromancer, to his more recent contemporary bestsellers Pattern Recognition, Spook

How can we sort out the mysteries of talent? How do venture capitalists pick winners, the FBI hostage rescue team find agents, or Hollywood casting agents size up actors.

According to a recent study from the Yale Project on Climate Change, 40 percent of Americans believe there is major scientific disagreement as to whether global warming is real.

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts.

Violence has been in decline for millennia. We once lived in a world in which human sacrifice, sadistic torture, brutal slavery, political murder, and blood sports were commonplace.

Although our senses have evolved to give us a detailed perception of the outside world, as soon as that information hits our brain it becomes biased and distorted, usually without conscious effort.

There has been a cultural shift from analog to digital: creating an ΓÇ£x-realityΓÇ¥ that crosses between the virtual and the real.

How did 250,000 amateur astronomers discover an entirely new kind of galaxy? Scientists are using the internet to dramatically expand our problem-solving ability and increase our combined brainpower.

In 1950 famed mathematician Alan Turing predicted that computers would someday become so sophisticated that we ΓÇ£will be able to speak of machines thinking.ΓÇ¥ The Turing test has become the holy

Can we trust our intuitions? Daniel Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust instincts, exploring the machinery of the mind and the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices.