By Gary Hinkle Stretching a Stretch Goal How far can you stretch a stretch goal before it snaps? Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a formula for that—if it were actually a predictable property with a scientific underpinning you could look up in your old physics textbook?
By Susan de la Vergne If you want to find out how happy someone is, measure the strength and activity of his or her brain’s left prefrontal cortex. Researchers announced a few years ago that they’d used this method to measure happiness in a variety of people and that they’d found “the happiest man in the world.” He’s Matthieu Ricard, a molecular-biologist-turned-Buddhist-monk, whose left prefrontal cortex readings are off the charts.
by Susan de la Vergne Imagine you’ve been invited to a presentation by a molecular biologist who is planning to tell you, in some detail, about the life cycle and behavior patterns of bacteria, describing research about the ways in which bacteria operate both individually and collectively.
