Many books that claim to support such perspective shifts vastly oversimplify the approach and offer cliché encouragements to "think outside the box," The Art of Possibility avoids both oversimplification and cliché, adeptly guiding the reader to develop modes of thinking that can prompt such shifts.

This week’s featured Denter is Skip Franklin, co-founder of Serial Entrepreneurs Anonymous, an organization dedicated to helping future entrepreneurs.

Some folks at Harvard have figured out how to write -- and read -- insanely large amounts of data in strands of DNA.

The modernization of medicine has all but eliminated the housecall, but Google aims to bring it back - after a fashion - with it's "Helpouts" offering.

scientists are using the phantom limb to develop prosthetics that can not only be moved by an amputee, but that can actually experience sensation in the phantom limb.

A new documentary short in the New York Times' "Retro Report" series looks at the cultural and medical impact of Prozac and the entire class of drugs that followed in its wake.

USAID has recently issued a $5 Million Grand Challenge to help combat Ebola in West Africa: more breathable hazmat suits.

When it comes to the problem of blood clotting in patients using pacemakers or during kidney dialysis, the answer may be found in a carnivorous plant.

A deepening understanding of how a wide variety of traumatic experiences can result in changes in both brain and behavior has yielded a new category of proposed PTSD diagnosis: Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or C-PTSD.

The birth control pill, which put a dent not just in science and medicine, but in the dynamics of human interaction, has a new biography out.The book tells the thrilling, but often ethically compromised story of birth control rabble rouser Margaret Sanger, suffragette Katharine McCormick, controversial researcher Gregory Pincus, and physician John Rock - as they developed the most impactful invention of the modern age.