You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Jodi Picoult
School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the... →
Charlie Pierce
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching... →
I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.
Karl Pilkington
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the... →
Daniel H. Pink
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or... →
Steven Pinker
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are... →
Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every... →
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate... →
Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no... →