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Jascha Kaykas-Wolff is the CMO of Mindjet, and is an exceptional marketing leader. Last week, Jascha posted a short slide deck that covers how he builds marketing organizations.  I worked […]
The Leonid meteor shower will be visible, weather permitting, tonight through Monday, November 18. NASA and the SLOOH Space Camera are both offering live streams of the all-night show of the Leonid Meteor Shower.
"I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe," Hawking said.
Jeff DeGraff: As a rule of thumb I like to tell people you have to be very open and an innovation usually takes you three times as long and at least twice the amount of money you thought it would. 
Bridges do collapse.  Products do blow up.  Drugs that save millions of people's lives often in the development stage kill people. This is something that you have to be very honest about. 
The secret to cultivating internal energy is to relax the nervous and muscuskeletal system simultaneously. Chi animates the body and makes it alive.
Engaging men to advance women in the enterprise is a human issue. 
Women can succeed in any culture. But, like men, they can truly thrive in an organization that values facts and feelings.
Scientific mediation is designed to bring out the nonscientific biases that lead scientists to opposite conclusions based on the same scientific knowledge. 
We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold - moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters - and that allows us to predict in great detail the large scale structure of the universe.
We create this bubble around ourselves where we reinforce the beliefs that we have, the views that we have in a world that’s rapidly changing.
Executives will talk about the importance of passion but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.  
The ancient word philanthropy means loving humanity. You can help other people in a number of ways - with your ideas, your time, your energy, or with your money.
The outcry about George W. Bush's visit to a group wanting Jews to believe in Jesus is much ado about bubkus.
While jazz is a uniquely American invention that created rhythms from scratch, Quincy Jones says the genius of the art form can also be found in its appropriation of classical instruments.
We now have started to put together "a coherent picture of how the changing East African landscape has driven human evolution over the last ten million years."
Men can’t lead if they’re back on their heels, and if they’re busy deflecting, fearing or fabricating gender issues.
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.
We experience emotions all the time that conflict with our core beliefs.
Adults make eye contact between 30% and 60% of the time in an average conversation, but people should be making eye contact 60% to 70% of the time to create a sense of emotional connection.