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Most workplaces have a strange relationship with leadership. We say we want leaders who can cultivate trust, autonomy, and initiative, but often reward those who do the opposite, pursuing visibility, control, and constant intervention while ensuring everyone knows any win happened because of them.
That can feel like true leadership. It may even work for a while. The te...
When we look up at the night sky, nearly everything that our naked eyes can perceive is right here in our own galaxy. The planets and our Moon are right here in our own Solar System, as are any asteroids, comets, or meteors that happen to be visible at the time. The stars, nebulae, and plane of the Milky Way are all contained within our own galaxy. Among the naked eye objects...
Steve Brusatte, the paleontologist behind Jurassic World’s science and author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, walks through what fossils actually prove versus what Hollywood invented.
Brusatte traces dinosaurs back to footprints smaller than a house cat, found in Poland just after the worst mass extinction in Earth’s history, and explai...
Why do we grade politicians on a spectrum from left to right? Blame the French.
On September 11th, 1789, France’s newly formed National Assembly voted on whether to grant the king a veto over its laws. This was no arcane point of procedure. As a direct challenge to Louis XVI’s absolute power, it was a hinge moment in the French Revolution.
Defenders of the monar...
If you simply say the name “Albert Einstein” and ask people what comes to mind, many of them will simply repeat his most famous equation, whether they known what it means or not: E = mc². In plain English, that equation states that the energy of an object is equal to that object’s mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. This simple-seeming mathematical relatio...