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May 10, 2024

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

In A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery, Lawrence Ingrassia weaves his moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer […]
May 6, 2024

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters

A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters, pioneering […]
April 29, 2024

Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World

It’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn: […]
April 29, 2024

The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations

In this timely, powerful, investigative history, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive […]
April 22, 2024

Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better

How we can recognize, attack, and eliminate workplace injustice―and transform our careers and organizations in the process? We―all of us―consistently exclude, underestimate, and underutilize huge numbers […]
April 18, 2024

The Civil Rights Act at 60: Is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream for Chicago and the Country Attainable?

Sixty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pushed for the successful passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the signature legislation of the Civil […]
March 4, 2024

FAN: Super- Communicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg, the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, launches yet another New York Times bestseller: Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret […]
January 29, 2024

FAN: Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

It’s common to feel jaded and unexcited by what many consider the mundane in our day to day lives. Years into a dream job, a happy […]
January 29, 2024

FAN: Attention Span: Find Focus, Fight Distraction

We spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. It takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a […]
January 29, 2024

FAN: Everyday Dharma: 8 Essential Practices for Finding Success and Joy in Everything You Do

We’ve been conditioned, from an early age, to believe that one day we’ll reach a moment of “arrival.” But no matter how much we achieve or […]
January 22, 2024

FAN: The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans

In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us we feel like we’ve got to get everything exactly right the first time, Aliza Pressman, […]
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