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Personality tests sometimes come in for criticism these days for not being very accurate or helpful or for ...

Let's say you have a chance to become a vampire, where you'd get the immortality and the supernatural ...

We often suppose that wars are fought over things like resources, border disputes, and ideologies. My guest ...

As you move through time, you exist as a present self who makes decisions, an in-between self who should ...

While studying history back in the 1990s, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss noticed something: there ...

Like many American boys who grew up in the 1980s, I loved The Karate Kid. For months when I was five years ...

When you're taking a trip on a nautical vessel, you may hear the crew talking about seeing something off ...

 If you're an athlete, you know that it can be helpful to get psyched up before a big game. But getting ...

In your quest for self-improvement, you'll likely encounter moments of despair where your current self ...

The last time we had entrepreneur, professor, and author Luke Burgis on the show, he discussed the ...

Throughout each day, all of us make little shifts in our roles and responsibilities; we take off one hat ...

When Americans think back to the War of Independence, most are apt to feel that, had they lived back then, ...

My flight was awful. The restaurant's service was terrible. The traffic was horrible. My boss is the ...

I turned 40 last December.  No, I haven't had a midlife crisis.  But that number did cause ...

Like every modern consumer, before I buy new sneakers, book a hotel room, or make a restaurant ...

When we think about Stoic philosophers, we typically think about the thinkers of ancient Greece and Rome, ...

When you take a step back from it, modern war is genuinely bizarre. Nation-states, formed by drawing arbitrary ...

To be successful at their craft, magicians must possess the well-honed technical skills to pull off their ...

In the mid-1980s, David Hemery set out to answer a burning question: "What makes a winner?" Hemery was ...

When people think of the paratroopers of World War II, they tend to think of the European theater — the ...