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The title Lost in the Cosmos is meant to be a correction to Carl Sagan’s “splendid picture book” Cosmos, which Percy understands as a failed self-help book. Sagan aims to get […]
Predictably, the suggestion of a state-imposed "porn shield" has alarmed free-speech activists, who say the move undermines the country's liberal Scandinavian image.
Several sites report increases in the number of requests for people who can perform a wide range of personal and professional tasks remotely.
Is a CEO promoting aggressive selling as opposed to nurturing long-term relationships with customers? These are the types fo signals that will tell you the real health of a company and its long-term outlook.
A long-term study conducted by MIT researchers explains how retaining America's manufacturing base will prove essential to maintaining the country's signature economic advantage: innovation.
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Don't just look at the short term numbers, says business turnaround expert Fred Hassan. Success starts at the level of company culture.
While Americans like to think of our healthcare system as the free-market alternative to single-payer programs, Switzerland actually has the most free-market oriented system in the west.
Last night was one of the most exciting Academy Awards ceremonies. Some of the excitement came from the incredible performances—Dame Shirley Bassey singing “Gold Finger,” Barbra Streisand popping up with […]
In my latest New York Times best seller Flash Foresight, I share seven principles that can make invisible opportunities visible. Becoming anticipatory both personally and organizationally is crucial. Agility has […]
Nothing hurts like a blown call. Baseball’s bittersweet beauty owes much to moments such as Umpire Jim Joyce’s missing a call to rob Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga of a […]
"Strong opinion's aren't free. You'll turn some people off. They'll accuse you of being arrogant and aloof. That's life. For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate […]
I was 19, a college sophomore. It was Spring, 1970, and the anti-Vietnam movement was bringing the progressive 60s to a crescendo. Four college students had been shot to […]
Engineers at Oxford University, UK, have created an automated driving system that is currently being tested on private roads around the university and is accurate to a few centimeters.
No longer a curse of the low-skilled worker, automation is coming to professions like teaching, medicine and law. But machines could give us more leisure time, if profits are shared evenly.
A national network consisting of 165 fast electric chargers is now open for use in Estonia, representing the world's first complete electric infrastructure for hybrid and electric cars.
So lots of readers (about six) have written ME asking for advice on what book they should read to turn their lives around. Here's my recommendation: Lost in the Cosmos by […]
The popularity of scientific studies of the human subconscious have ballooned in the past decade, but verifying the studies' results has proven difficult because of biases in academic journals.
The federal government is preparing to put $3 billion dollars into researching the human brain, which over the last decade has become the final frontier of terrestrial science.
A team of American and Italian scientists have found the biology of the human brain to be distinct from that of rhesus monkeys, thought to be our closest evolutionary ancestor.
The five stages of grief have become the stuff of pop psychology but disbelief, yearning, anger, depression and acceptance do not always follow each other in an orderly procession.