Is the United States ready to compete for the world’s best jobs?  In a study comparing the US to the world’s top 40 industrialized nations, the US ranked 40th or dead last in “rate of change in innovation capacity” over the last decade.  In other words, we’re far behind the power curve when it comes to investing in our country’s future.  While we were playing [...]

Robert Sapolsky, primate researcher and Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurological Sciences and Neurosurgery at Stanford University enlightens and entertains us with a fascinating question; what makes humans unique?  You may be surprised.  Enjoy the video.
Students at Stanford University personally selected Sapolsky to give this talk at their graduation “Class Day Lecture 2009″.
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Neuroscientists are finding more evidence that aspects of our personalities and temperaments are hard-wired.
The recent New York Times Magazine article, The Anxious Mind, by Robin Marantz Henig outlines decades of research by Jerome Kagan, an 80-year-old Harvard professor of developmental psychology who has built a life’s work on studying innate personality traits. Kagan came up [...]

According to the latest research, if you don’t like your job it could be because your friends’ behavior is rubbing off on you. The new social science of “social contagion” is revealing that the choices we make about our bodies, health, career and even our politics can be strongly influenced by our friends. 
A recent article [...]

 . . . you may have become an architect, rather than a lawyer, or an anthropologist, rather than a computer scientist.
The brain and behavioral science community is bringing forth exciting new evidence that nature plays the dominant role in shaping our talents and traits.  Studies of identical twins raised apart in different environments turn out to [...]