Editors' note: An article in the February 2008 issue of Scientific American, "Building a Future on Science" by Christine Soares, describes a project led by neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis to use ...

Fresh water is a key resource for human health, prosperity and security. It is essential for poverty eradication, gender equality, food security and the preservation of ecosystems. Yet water resources ...

The literature on ecosystem management and assessment is increasingly focusing on social capacity to enhance ecosystem resilience. Organizational flexibility, participatory approaches to learning, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. A recent study finding dramatic boosts in reading achievement from a ...

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we discussed the problem of being a knowledge worker in an essentially task-based education system. Teachers who are pressured into transferring information to ...

Knowledge is one of your company's most important assets. The problem is, companies aren’t getting as much value as they should from their knowledge & data. Knowledge is one of your organization’s ...

Bhagvad Gita says that those who do not possess self-knowledge are ever doubtful. Doubts, if not cleared, lead to sansayatma vinashyati, self-destruction. Self-knowledge is knowledge that you create ...

In joyful preschool classrooms, three- and four-year-olds play and pretend together. They sing and dance, listen eagerly at story time, and ask endless questions. Nearly everything is new, which fuels ...

There will always be a need for postgraduate business qualifications, but in a crowded market, where does the MBA fit in? The MBA was first offered by the Harvard University Graduate School of ...

In my last article, I made the case that, as humans, we have a unique ability to forgo short-term satisfaction for long-term rewards, and that you cannot become a better investor without this mindset.