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An Egyptian acquaintance wrote me from Cairo this morning. I'm passing on his warning to journalists and foreigners about gangs of pro-government thugs roaming the streets there. This morning, as […]
Quick updates for today, all centered on the Smithsonian/USGS Global Volcanism ProgramWeekly Volcanic Activity Report, along with this great new MODIS image from the NASA Earth Observatory - both Sakurajima and […]
Did you know that in the world of Wikipedia the word “marriage” is classified as a "contentious issue?" The page has been protected, on and off, for the last four […]
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When asking for a raise, you should strike a balance between yes man and "flame chaser."
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The "CEO Whisperer" discusses some of the most common leadership mistakes and offers strategies to avoid them.
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As leadership teams become more globally distributed, CEOs need to be more creative in the ways they foster a sense of unity and cohesion among them.
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In our age of social media, CEOs should have a two-way dialogue with their broader constituencies.
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CEOs must walk a fine line while doing business in China—where the opportunities are massive but the room for error is small. One wrong move, and you can be effectively […]
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The global financial crisis and the Internet have transformed the relationship between business and stakeholder. The CEO Whisperer offers his advice on how to navigate through this brave new world.
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Business leaders can no longer focus exclusively within the bubble of their company’s ecosystem; they must think about their global footprint, something that business schools don’t teach.
BIG THINK's great little interview with Danny Rubin got me thinking about the relationship between happiness and mortality. His very philosophic film is all about our "rightly understood" theme of the connections […]
A NASA telescope counting planets in one neighborhood of the Milky Way registered more than 1,200 candidates, including 54 in life-friendly orbits around their parent stars.
The report from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has been assailed as a confusing mishmash—poorly organized and weakened by obvious and unsatisfying conclusions.
Nobody should be surprised to see unauthorized movie downloads booming when the authorized kind remain so difficult to find. Movie studios should seek to satisfy demand.
The thought that hormones somehow "control" our moods and behaviors is a falsehood, a popular oversimplification that hinders the understanding of what is actually going on.
Michael Hartl is the author of The Tau Manifesto, which argues that, quite simply, pi is wrong. He's also a physicist who has previously both studied and taught at Harvard and Caltech.
The American economy isn’t back, says Robert Reich. While Wall Street’s bull market is making America’s rich even richer, most Americans continue to be mired in the housing crisis.
On February 2nd Apple and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation launched the Daily, a digital-only newspaper available by subscription. Does the move set a worrying precedent?
The least interesting fact about the Egyptian protests is that some of the protesters may have employed some of the tools of the new media to communicate with each other.
A new study finds that poor adolescents who live in communities with more social cohesiveness are less likely to smoke and be obese as adolescents.