A subtle but undeniable shift has been taking place in American corporate management theory. Roughly, the change corresponds to psychology’s shift from punishment & reward focused Skinnerian behavioralism to a focus on human relationships and development. 

What is the Big Idea? Jim Yong Kim, a global health expert and the president of Dartmouth College was named as the next president of the World Bank, according to […]

For this week’s post I would like to ask a single question: What is democracy? Please share your answers in the comments. I will feature what I think are the […]

Jim Quigley, former CEO and now Senior Partner of Deloitte, has had the daunting task of trying to get 180,000 people on the same page. Central to that task, he […]

An ill-timed African vacation (to shoot at elephants) has landed Spain's royal family in hot water with the public. At what point do cultural traditions themselves become anachronistic? 

The XTR3D is a touch-free software interface that only requires a simple 2-D camera to operate. XTR3D creates a three-dimensional image of the user which can then be used to […]

Soccket, a soccer ball that stores the energy generated while playing with it, was developed by Uncharted Play, Inc. The product of an engineering class for non-engineers at Harvard, Soccket […]

Le Chal, a shoe that may replace the cane for a visually impaired person, was developed by Anirudh Sharma. Le Chal, or "The Take-Me-There Shoe," uses a phone's GPS along […]

The Ekso is a bionic exoskeleton designed by Ekso Bionics in order to help wheelchair users walk. Essentially a wearable robot, the Ekso allows people who suffer from paralysis or […]

Fitocracy is a social fitness network that rewards its users with experience points, allowing them to level up and complete fitness “quests” with other users, creating a fun and challenging […]

If you’re a parent and you want to introduce your child to art, it’s sometimes hard to find that perfect combination of optimism and imagination in a single artist. Too […]

The news service for the College of Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin has a good summary of a recent article at The Scientist by several colleagues who spotlight […]

Since Germany decided to wean itself off nuclear energy, it must find new ways of achieving energy independence. That means connecting small energy suppliers to self-sufficient grids. 

--Guest post by Erin Brett, American University graduate student. Last month, in advance of April Fools Day, CBS Morning News correspondent and satirist Mo Rocca met with the cast of […]

In France, it seems that respect for the institution of marriage carries with it a certain tolerance for extra-marital affairs. In divorce-happy America, should we accept cheating? 

How important is gender to accessing different rights as a citizen? If gender categories are from a bygone area that restricted women's rights, why shouldn't we eliminate them all together? 

A European institute in Singapore wants to help ease the world's transition toward massively populated urban centers. Of the 8.1 billion people on Earth by 2030, 5 billion will live in cities. 

Thomas K. Lindsay, quite an erudite and distinguished expert, applauds the decision of post-secondary public technical schools in Texas to evaluate institutions and faculty according to how many students have […]

Experiments performed at Northwestern University demonstrate that materialistic mindsets are more closely associated with depression, anxiety, distrust and a lack of civic duty. 

In my early days of blogging, I would have exhaustive debates, sometimes lasting for weeks, with believers who came across one of my websites and posed a challenge to me. […]