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You've probably heard of the trend among America's city dwellers to grow their own food, but you probably haven't heard of urbanites raising their own livestock. In a guest post […]
Plato's notion of the Philosopher-King, guardian of the utopian city of Kallipolis, is a great metaphor for understanding the education of the soul, not a recipe for tyranny.
Farmers markets are wildly popular among the urban elite in Washington, D.C. and other urban areas across the country. In a guest post today, Melissa Winn considers efforts to expand […]
Yesterday the City of London moved against the fish porters of Billingsgate Market in London, revoking their licences in a move that would be more familiar to mediaeval Knights than […]
After reading the David Brooks New York Times column that lauded the courage and guts of GOP Rep. Paul Ryan to actually put together an “adult” congressional budget, one that […]
The aftershocks of the controversy surrounding the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery’s decision to drop David Wojnarowicz’s 1987 video “A Fire in My Belly” from their exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire […]
Bringing philosophers into the corporation is not an entirely new idea. But in our new era of computational power the Philosopher-Kings will be determining how each of us lives, thinks and feels.
The recent 7.4 magnitude earthquake and tsunami to hit northern Japan on April 7 underscores the delicate situation at the Fukushima reactors. Although workers had to evacuate the site, preliminary […]
Right now, businesses approach all their issues as if they were in a silo. We need to see more integrated approaches that recognize the interconnectedness of the world's problems.
It may be a bit weird to use the word 'elegant' to describe something with the name “Peepoo” but that’s exactly what it is – an absolutely brilliant and elegant […]
One of the most popular Shakespearean analogies presents George W. Bush as Henry V. But does it hold up?
People are rightly hesitant to put all their private data in the hands of big corporations, but Gelernter argues that this is in fact the safest place for it.
Henry V is perhaps the most famous (and complicated) leader in Shakespeare. Here, he is portrayed by Sir Laurence Olivier in his famously propagandistic 1944 film, meant to rally the […]
Cloud computing means different things to different people, but basically it means that the software you use isn’t on your own personal computer, explains Fried in a 2 minute crash […]
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Michael Kahn directed two very different stage versions of Shakespeare's Henry V, which helped him realize the full complexity of leadership.
Computer storage and software are already migrating to the cloud, and soon processing power will go virtual as well, making our mobile devices as powerful as supercomputers.