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Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.

From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.

Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.

The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.

It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.