Posts by Becoming Smart!

My first year in graduate school, studying cooperation in monkeys, I spent a lot of time outside, just watching our groups of capuchin monkeys interact. One afternoon, I was out back feeding...

In 1987, a Chilean engineer named Oscar Duhalde became the only living person on the planet to discover a rare astronomical event with the naked eye. Oscar was a telescope operator at Las Campanas...

I'm quite comfortable sitting here. Don't get me wrong, my heart's beating so loud I'm surprised you can't hear it. There's a lightness in my head, and my hand is a little sweaty. Luckily, I'm not...

Cecily: Ah, well, I feel rather frightened. I'm so afraid he will look just like everyone else. He does. Algernon: You are my little cousin Cecily, I'm sure. C: You are under some grave...

What we're looking to do is to really change the way that companies show up in the world and in order to make that change, we have to think about the system in which companies operate. So companies...

So I'm here today surrounded by all these fruits and vegetables, because these are the subjects of my experiments. Now, bear with me for just a second, but about a decade ago my team started to...