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  • There’s a Simple Reason Why More Women aren’t CEOs

    There’s a Simple Reason Why More Women aren’t CEOs0

    Did you ever read the novel Pollyanna as a child? If so, you may remember the scene where stern Aunt Polly lays out a strict schedule for her niece, Pollyanna. This daily to-do list dampens the effervescent Pollyanna, who exclaims: “Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven’t left me any time at all just

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  • The President Is Not the Commander in Chief of the United States, Nor Its CEO

    The President Is Not the Commander in Chief of the United States, Nor Its CEO0

    The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” yesterday that “the president is the CEO of the country,” and thus “he can hire and fire whoever he wants. That’s his right.” Leaving aside the question of whether the president can fire everyone in the federal government, she is wrong on

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  • One Simple Way to Raise Children to be Leaders

    One Simple Way to Raise Children to be Leaders2

    Whether they admit it or not, almost every parent entertains visions of greatness for their child from the moment he is born. He’ll be a businessman, or a college professor, or maybe even the President of the United States. Unfortunately, it’s often hard to move beyond daydreams and work toward making those imaginations become reality.

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  • Barbara Oakley Explains One Huge Flaw in U.S. Education

    Barbara Oakley Explains One Huge Flaw in U.S. Education0

    What does an expert in learning think about how to learn math (and other things for that matter)? Barbara Oakley is the author of A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if You Flunked Algebra) and Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential; she is also a distinguished

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  • ‘Cheers’ Totally Predicted the Obama and Trump Campaigns

    ‘Cheers’ Totally Predicted the Obama and Trump Campaigns0

    The television sitcom Cheers has always been one of my guilty pleasures.  Next to Seinfeld, I consider it the best sitcom of my lifetime.   After about a 20-year hiatus, I recently started watching Cheers reruns on Netflix. A few nights a week, on nights when my wife puts the kids to bed, I watch

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  • Why Trump will likely win reelection in 2020

    Why Trump will likely win reelection in 20200

    Most Americans don’t like Trump. Trump will most likely be reelected in 2020. How can both of these statements be true? Here’s how: Even when people are unhappy with a state of affairs, they are usually disinclined to change it. In my area of research, the cognitive and behavioral sciences, this is known as the

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  • The War on Free Speech is Just Beginning0

    Will the war on freedom just peter out? No. Let’s look at four reasons why not. People are fed up with political correctness. No guff. Bill Maher is. Clint Eastwood is. We are told that Canadians are fed up too. But so? Two Canadian literary magazine editors were forced to resign from their national publications this month because they do not

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  • Millionaire to Millennials: If You Want to Own a House, Stop Buying $19 Avocado Toast and $4 Coffee

    Millionaire to Millennials: If You Want to Own a House, Stop Buying $19 Avocado Toast and $4 Coffee0

    Via the Guardian: An Australian millionaire and real estate mogul has advice for millennials struggling to purchase a home: stop buying avocado toast. Tim Gurner, a luxury property developer in Melbourne responsible for over $3.8bn in projects, is facing heat for comments he made on 60 Minutes in Australia, implying that young people can’t afford

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  • City: ‘If something is not permitted it is prohibited.’

    City: ‘If something is not permitted it is prohibited.’0

    Should Americans have a right to garden in their own yards? If you looked at this question, shook your head, and answered, “Of course! Why would we not?” then it would seem there is still some common sense left in the world. Unfortunately, that common sense doesn’t always extend to the powers that be, and

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