A few years ago, Dutch grocery chain Jumbo rolled out a supermarket reinvention — checkout lanes staffed by humans, where shoppers could kibitz with cashiers as they rang up their carts. The "chat ...

A close look at ten psychology classics that shaped how we think about behaviour, meaning, happiness, persuasion, bias, and ...

As I sat down with Jim Wilson, global managing director of thought leadership and technology at Accenture and co-author of the newly updated book Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI, ...

For 2026, here are books that resist numbness and distraction. Through quiet storytelling, reflection, and careful ...

The Authors Guild, one of the largest associations of writers in America, is launching a new project to certify books that have been written by a human rather than a machine. The new “Human Authored” ...

Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a shadowy corner of the rare book world. By Jennifer Schuessler and Julia Jacobs The New ...

Two copies of a poetry book by formerly enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley are bound in human skin and housed in Cincinnati. The books were bound in the 1930s for a collector who reportedly smuggled the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Co-Founder, Conspiracy of Love, and Good is the New Cool. It started in a waiting room. Bree Groff was sitting beside her mother ...

Every avid reader has probably wished at some point that they could sit down and have a conversation with a character from their favorite book. The Human Library tries to do that by having “human ...

Palakkad (Kerala): What if a library lent out people instead of books? At the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad, that question is no longer hypothetical. The prestigious engineering ...

Momentum rarely announces itself, yet certain books quietly alter priorities, habits and inner dialogue. Ideas around focus, ...