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How Elon Musk Convinced Gwynne Shotwell to Join SpaceX

This story is adapted from Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, by Eric Berger. Before she would become one...

Here’s What Learning to Juggle Does to Your Brain

“I can do a bit of mind reading when I teach people to juggle,” Wolf said, “and I can tell you’re thinking of this...

Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

The company’s software can sift through enormous amounts of data, and those metrics can be used to make life-or-death decisions.

If You Are Going to Survive, You Must Prepare to Fail

What you’re doing is tricking your brain into engaging the opposite response to the fight, flight or freeze one (the sympathetic autonomic nervous system)....

How Cities (and Citizens) Create Hostile Environments

Adapted from stories found in The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars and Kurt KohsltedtCities and their citizens are in constant dialog,...

Does a Millipede Have a Penis? Well … Define ‘Penis’

This story is adapted from Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis, by Emily Willingham.For humans and other vertebrates, the literal response to...

How to Leave Space and (Safely) Crash Back Down to Earth

I liken the experience of landing in a space shuttle to a nice, smooth Air Force landing. But let’s go back to EI (400,000...

Hone Your Leadership Skills To Perfection With ‘Executive Presence’ By Shital Kakkar Mehra

The book Executive Presence: The POISE formula for Leadership by Shital Kakkar Mehra, has been declared a bestseller by Amazon....

How Albert Einstein’s Son Tamed the Mississippi River

From a mile up in the thick Louisiana summertime air, the structure looks so fragile, just a spidery wisp of a pale-colored highway bridge...

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