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In 2011, Victor Saad, a secondary school teacher, decided he wanted a new career. At first, he considered getting an MBA. But when he reflected on what he really wanted from it — credibility in the ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

Miguel Acevedo typically gets two questions about his research on malaria in lizards. “Do lizards really get malaria?” (The answer is yes.) And, “Will I get malaria from a lizard?” (Not likely.) ...

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Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Every parent has been on the receiving end of a one-word answer. You ask your kid how their day was, and ...