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You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. This simple, succinct introduction opens the door […]
There's little doubt that sports are good for the bodies and minds of people who play them. For people who watch them, though, sports are a negative.
We just opened up a positioning on the Involver Marketing team, I've loved developing relationships with you all as readers - and I think some of you might be a […]
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According to Chahal, the right hiring is key to innovating, executing, and winning as a company.
Wise leaders like Gurbaksh Chahal create strong, adaptable organizations by hiring––and relying upon––driven entrepreneurs who share the core vision but have vivid dreams of their own.
One of the most disappointing moments in an otherwise fairly encouraging Republican New Hampshire debate was that none of the seven candidates would continue federal funding for human space flight. […]
The first day of GLS7 brought with it plenty of spirited debate and intense arguments, as you are likely to have with any diverse group of passionate professionals, but none so […]
Six months out of the year I try to spend as much time as possible on the roof of my building in Brooklyn, where I'm cooled by a non-air-conditioned breeze, […]
[If you're willing, I could use a little help with an upcoming keynote to educators...] Digital technologies and the Internet are causing the lines to blur in a number of […]
I am busy packing up here on the eastern coast of Canada to get ready to spend next year in the sex and love capital of the world – Paris, […]
The Paris Air Show, one of the oldest and biggest events of its kind, gets under way at Le Bourget on June 20th with many of the exhibitors keen to promote greener aviation.
A project sponsored by the American government called "Internet in a Suitcase" is being used to help dissidents circumvent restrictions on information exchange in autocratic countries.
Is a virtual currency free of intermediaries tenable given the recent string of hacker attacks? One user of Bitcoin, a decentralized virtual currency, claims $500,000 was stolen from his account.
When friction makes machines less efficient, we grease the gears, but that macro solution doesn't work with nanotechnology. Researchers are learning to shake nanomachines instead.
Google's web-based laptop, Chromebook, is a valiant experiment, says Pogue, but unless you're an early-adopter masochist with money to burn, you probably shouldn’t buy one.
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Booz & Company's Chief and Marketing and Knowledge Officer Tom Stewart moderated the Big Think panel made up of Michael Schrage, MIT Sloan School of Management research fellow, theoretical physicist […]
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A panel of Big Think experts debates the impact of education on the industries of the future.
A year ago, Ronald Shaich, the founder of Panera Bread, one of the biggest restaurant chains in the States, decided to try something different. He opened the Panera Cares Community […]
As I tracked with several colleagues in a 2009 paper, climate change-related health impacts such as extreme heat, disease, and respiratory problems, and more vivid threats such as hurricanes have received relatively […]
A couple of days ago Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a wide-ranging interview to the Associated Press, touching on Yemen. The secretary, who earlier this year admitted the US […]