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We weigh choices about risks against the associated benefits, and the bigger the benefits, the less we worry about the risk.
This week ended up being a little busier than I expected - I had to make that quick transition from wedding/honeymoon to beginning to prepare for my field/labwork coming up […]
Amid a dearth of female role models in leadership positions in Japan comes one positive move, the government is debating mandatory quotas to get more women into public office.
As they adjust to the world's ongoing global financial difficulties, some business chiefs are moving towards 'conditional conservatism' in accounting. Research shows it makes sense.
Engineers increasingly end up as company heads and could learn from the experience of self-confessed introvert and former Mozilla CEO John Lilly, who learned to be a "people person."
Nelson Lichenstein says a patriarchal ethos was written into Wal-Mart's DNA that today helps sustain high corporate loyalty even as wages and working conditions are eroded.
Want more authority? Acting more authoritatively is one step but you must also eliminate the limiting beliefs that undermine you. For instance, the need to be loved.
If traditional media companies fail to adapt their business models to the realities of today's open source world, companies like Boxee will be happy to fill the void.
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How will content be delivered to consumers moving forward in the 21st century? Billions of dollars are at stake, and Avner Ronen's company Boxee is a key disruptive force.
Now that summer’s here and the time is right to turn to reruns of various kinds, I’m trying to spend the ample time I have as a tenured professor watching […]
Jean Jacques Rousseau called cities “…the abyss of the species“. Well, they may not be that bad, but with their crowding and competition and noisy get-ahead in-your-face rat race environments, […]
Political pundits who are already naysaying the Obama Administration’s decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from our strategic reserves have no idea how Wall Street works. If the […]
Which country would have the upper hand in a full-scale cyber war between the United States and China?
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Cyber warfare is one form of espionage that is currently being waged between the U.S. and China. In the event of a full-scale conflict, how would this war be fought, […]
There probably isn't a flashpoint in science right now as touchy as climate (well, maybe evolution). When it comes to climate change, everyone has an opinion and everyone thinks their […]
I already wrote once or twice about the mind change in our society that we are used to getting information or answers to our questions right now, anywhere we are. […]
Gossip: you can’t avoid it. And maybe, you shouldn’t want to. Scientists have argued that gossip is an important tool for social cohesion and information transmission, allowing us to function […]
If you won the lottery, would the additional wealth increase your chances of a lasting relationship? If you are single, would you be more likely to marry? If you are […]
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say that by allowing nanoparticles to communicate with each other, the delivery of anti-cancer drugs can improve forty fold.
Serial entrepreneur Chris Andrews, with his new start-up SoundLink, is ready to revolutionize the Internet, again—this time with voice cues embedded in links, offering a more dynamic Web experience.