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It’s not that the web is making us less intelligent...it’s that the web may be an enemy of creativity. Which is why Woody Allen might be wise in avoiding it altogether.
Here's what Democrats should be saying: Hike taxes on the super-rich. Reform the tax code to create more brackets at the top with higher rates for millionaires and billionaires.
President Sarkozy is accused of trying to win far-right votes as France outlaws full-face veils with its controversial niqab ban.
The Guardian: For the LSE, in thrall to a dictator, Gaddafi was pure roast duck. The school's association with Libya's leader illustrates the predicament now facing all UK universities.
Michael T. Klare on the collapse of the old oil order: Only the rapid development of alternative sources of energy...might spare the world the most severe economic repercussions.
Are the days of billable hours nearly over for lawyers? LawPivot is a site designed to aid startups find legal advice, by using a Quora-type question and answer format.
David Kirkpatrick talks to Jack Dorsey about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future.
American ships are again under siege by pirates off the African coast. The Pirates of Somalia — we have the weapons to defeat them. All we lack is the will.
The quality of effective entrepreneurial leadership that I most admire combines a practical modesty with a frontiersman’s ability to step fearlessly into the unknown.
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Unless technology "offers a deeper meaning into your heart, into your soul, a deeper purposefulness, it’ll be vestigial, it’ll be gone," says the film exec.
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Peter Guber describes how Michael Jackson taught him a lesson on storytelling using a mouse and his Boa Constrictor "Muscles."
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The legendary producer describes watching Nelson Mandela open the hearts of a group of wealthy and hardened business people.
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Whether asking for a raise or pitching an idea, "emotionalizing" your case helps people metabolize the information of your argument.
The other evening I was asked onto a radio programme in order to criticise the international community for being slow, or downright useless, in responding to the Libyan uprising. What […]
America may not love unions—certainly not the way some countries do—but it doesn’t hate them either. Yesterday, I wrote that unions play an essential role in a healthy economy by […]
In his Big Think interview, the prospective GOP presidential candidate takes aim at what he calls the "fourth bubble," i.e., government spending.
There is one thing about living with a lawyer that never fails to amuse me. When I described to her yesterday how, despite a temporary restraining order prohibiting Wisconsin’s Department […]
I am somewhat dragging this week - I think it is the exhaustion that leads into spring break - so today's we'll have a Mystery Volcano Photo. Our last installment, […]
Navigating and coordinating all of today's social networking tools at the office spells w-a-s-t-e. Unifying the functions across platforms into one software will boost productivity for business.
Climate change expert Bjorn Lomborg says carbon pricing is a "broken" scheme and the world must instead invest heavily in R & D to make green energy cheaper than fossil fuels.