Mark Zuckerberg on Taking Risks and Finding Talented People

If you could just give me an idea of, uh, you know what sort of asking price you guys are looking for it. I think on that aircraft is somewhere around 13, uh, 13, 13 and a half, something like that. Is that in the price range you’re talking about, you’re …

Richard Davidson: There are very simple ways of cultivating positive outlook. When you do those simple kinds of practices we’ve shown that both behavior and the brain changes and it doesn’t take much. (Applause) There are four constituents of well-being t…

Innovation requires a couple of things. One of the things that it seems to require is decentralization. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Athenian city-states, the Italian city-states, or even the United States, when it was more free-form and invo…

Mountain lion, puma, cougar— all names for an animal that has long been misunderstood, feared, hunted, and eliminated from most of its range. The cougar is often believed to be solitary and even heartless, but recently, deep in the Wyoming Wind River Rang…

This is my dad, and he’s about to finish this major job you’ve been working on, which is the James Webb Space Telescope? Sun shield for the James Webb Space Telescope. Hey, it’s me, Destin, welcome back to Smarter Every Day. The James Webb Space Telescope…

[Derek] How do you fix a brain that’s not working properly? Well, until now the only real option has been to open up the skull, implant electrical or optical fibers, or even remove parts of the brain. If you do something like surgery or ablation, even wit…