Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Coleman is a U.K.-based journalist who covers entrepreneurs. The world has come a long way in how it views dyslexia, no ...

Do you have special mental capacities that likely are not enjoyed by 80% of the people around you? Are you among the one in five who, according to cognitive neuroscience, are neurobiologically wired ...

I’m very drawn to positive psychology. I like how it aims to show what is going on psychologically for people who are happy, rather than defining happiness, functioning, or normalcy by looking to ...

"I don't have a bicycle, but I have very good cocaine." The summer of 1990 was very hot. I was a student back then and had gone to Amsterdam with a group of friends wanting to find a job for the ...

Peter Ellerton is affiliated with the Rationalist Society of Australia. Read about the event elsewhere and it turns out the athlete was also beaten by thousands of people and it was a participation ...

The 2024 presidential election was centered on Americans’ “pocketbook” concerns. As President-elect Donald Trump recently said, “I won on groceries,” and he isn’t wrong. Whether it’s the cost of ...

Magdalena Zurawski’s intrepid use of caesura — a pause in a line of poetry — reinforces the theme of disciplined attention in “[Dog Is a Way of Thinking].” The poem’s frequent midline interruptions of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

There’s a pervasive crime being committed in the business world: the fetishization of doing, at the expense of thinking. From meetings to deadlines to notifications to obligations, everybody is ...

I’m Ezra Klein. This is “The Ezra Klein Show.” So a bit of housekeeping before we get started. We are going to do another A.M.A. episode pretty soon. There’s really a lot going on. And we need your ...

David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike other creative processes, like making music, which can be heard, ...