Whether you’d like to admit it or not, you probably have an average IQ. Luckily, there’s a lot you can do to increase your intelligence.

This thread on Quora is rich with feedback on how small lifestyle changes can have a significant impact on your life. While the above links to one specific answer, I would encourage you to explore the answers to the original question because there are some amazing small changes people have found that completely change their life for the better. (Original Thread)

New research enables “tailored” diet advice – based on our personal gut microbiome – for persons who want to lose weight and reduce the risk of disease. Systems biologists at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time successfully identified in detail how some of our most common intestinal bacteria interact during metabolism. 

Martin Shkreli gave a lot of reasons for raising his drug’s price. Is he a rogue actor of pharmaceutical pricing, or did he just take things further than most other companies?

Doug Wilson, a very close family friend, interviews Dick Gochnauer on strategies for building Purpose Driven Companies. Dick details his work at United Stationers and discusses his work at Higher Ambition, an organization that works with CEOs and senior leaders to transform their businesses around purpose. 

Doug has a running podcast available in iTunes called Lessons Learned: Proven Leaders Speak on Leadership.

Today’s fastest growing, most profoundly impactful companies are using a completely different operating model. 

Massive organizations are feeling intense pressure to innovate, as unencumbered startups take shots across their bows. Legacy processes that enforce bureaucracy, command-and-control structures, waterfall development, and risk management are still largely the standard among big corporations, yet they are liabilities in this fight.

Your company’s culture is the foundation for enabling your business to succeed today.

First Round dives into GiveForward’s unique perspective on their culture and how it’s enabled their success. “Culture evens out the inevitable ups, downs, starts and stops a company goes through. Even rocketships have refueling stations in space. Culture’s what you lean on.” I also love this quote which originated from Simon Sinek: “No one cares about what you do. They care about why you do it. Similarly, people don’t really buy what you make. They buy your reasons for making it.”

Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider combine forces to give new precision to the elusive particle’s properties.

Watch this 20 minute video on the latest science coming out of LHC.

The possibility of more supply entering the market has analysts already lowering their forecast price for oil into the next year. And even if the price rises, industry experts say U.S. production quickly could ramp up and keep prices low for years to come, challenging the power of OPEC.

“There’s almost no way that OPEC can get the band back together,” said Greg Priddy, the director for global energy and natural resources at the Eurasia Group. “You can’t get prices rapidly back up … because you’d get runaway growth in the U.S.”