In a digital world that clamors for clicks, news is sensationalized and “facts” change all the time. Here’s how to discern what is trustworthy and what is hogwash.

The burning question: why are scientific studies so difficult to replicate?

We live in a time of political fury and hardening cultural divides. But if there is one thing on which virtually everyone is agreed, it is that the news and information we receive is biased. Every second of every day, someone is complaining about bias, in everything from the latest movie reviews to sports commentary to the BBC’s coverage of Brexit.

In the attention economy, where your small resources of of attention are being pulled in numerous directions, the ability to focus and pay attention is the greatest skill that you can haves to control of your life.

The flip side of focused attention: zooming out and getting a Panasonic view of consciousness.

If you’re still thinking about your New Year’s Resolutions, here’s one suggestion that can benefit not only your own life, but also the state of our pla https://www.getrevue.co/app/issues/current# net: do less.

Even prolific inventors Like Thomas Edison failed more often than they succeeded. But, he kept at it. Creativity doesn’t come in sudden bursts; you have to keep plugging away at it.

Even highly accomplished people can feel insecure about thinking creatively. Here’s how you can improve that ability

In 1976, Francis Crick arrived at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, overlooking a Pacific Shangri-La with cotton candy skies and a beaming, blue-green sea. He had already won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, revealing the basis of life to be a purely physical, not a mystical, process. He hoped to do the same thing for consciousness. If matter was strange enough to explain a creature’s life code, he thought, maybe it’s stra nge enough to explain a creature’s mind, too.

If you have to force yourself up off your couch to try to get in some physical activity, rest assured, you are not the only one in this situation. For decades, communication campaigns have encouraged us to exercise, yet an estimated 30% of adults aren’t active enough. And this inaction is constantly increasing everywhere on the planet.

“Let’s not teach our children that apocalyptic thinking is right thinking,” says Laurence Siegel. Apocalypticism “has always been wrong as a forecast, and it will continue to be wrong.”