Two new studies by researchers at The New School and in the Netherlands have found reading literary fiction makes you more empathetic, which leads to better storytelling... Read More

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Three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi Adolf Eichmann for war crimes, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram began a round of experiments to understand why good people might be motivated to do bad things. He was able to uncover many reasons why people do bad things so we can understand how to be better at ethical decision making... Read More

Livefyre, the commenting platform we love, introduces Sidenotes. It is a way to comment on specific sentences, paragraphs, or images vs. the entire page. Check it out now!... Read More

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The man in the hot seat for the Livefyre Q&A is Rob Biesenbach, the author of 11 Deadly Presentation Sins. Join us live or read the transcript later. ... Read More

You are your reputation. And maintaining it is not good enough. You have to constantly work on building it to make the most of your opportunities... Read More

An article by Emma Jacobs at the Financial Times about how much PR sucks led to a blog post by Richard Edelman. They are both right and wrong. Here's why... Read More