How happy can we be? Take Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, the Tibetan lama billed as "the happiest man in the world," and the author of a book with an upbeat title, Joyful Wisdom.

What's so intriguing about Mingyur Rinpoche is that he started out in life fairly unhappy, prone to...

And will women naturally emerge as the organizational leaders of the future?

These days many voices answer "Yes" to these questions. For example, by the year 2018, according to the Chartered Management Institute in the UK, the workplace will be one where the demand for "female" management skills will be...

Recently I read that brominated fire retardants -- ubiquitous in whatever electronic device you're using right now -- are carcinogenic. Now brominates are helpful: they keep our stuff from bursting into flames, which is why they're peppered in our carpets, paint and upholstery, as well as computer circuits and cabinets....

When President Obama tells us he wants a compassionate Supreme Court justice with "empathy" for people's struggles, he's wandered into arguments within psychology of what we mean by the term.

There are at least three varieties of empathy, each with very different implications for spotting the right candidate....

There's a new kind of math for the environmentally concerned, one that answers those everyday eco-conundrums like, Which is better: a reusable stainless steel water bottle, or those throwaway plastic ones?

The answers come from life cycle assessment (or LCA), the method used by industrial ecologists -- a discipline that...