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I just finished reading Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeir Hansson. Although it has a business slant, there are many great links to school leadership. Here are but a […]
A symbolic state of emergency was recently declared to draw attention to a population that's about seven times the size it should be. Towns are offering a variety of incentives to hunters to help reduce numbers.
When we think of technology’s early adopters, we tend to think of the young hipsters in tech hubs like New York or San Francisco, testing out all the cool new apps, gadgets […]
A centerpiece of Mastermind is that the brain operates using two contrasting systems, which Konnikova terms System Holmes and System Watson.
It wasn't your imagination: The average high temperature in the contiguous US, 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, beat the previous record, set in 1998, by a whole degree.
Your boss is like a mirror, reflecting back at you "your own uncontrolled states of mind."
“A painter, a composer, and a poet went on a road trip,” begins one print advertisement for the MoMA’s new exhibition Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925. Although it sounds like the start […]
This article was originally published on AlterNet. When you hear the word "interfaith," you might think of people from different religions working together to do charitable deeds: running a soup […]
The two-year pilot program covers a section of Chelsea and is funded by the company and a local nonprofit development group. It's the city's largest public network to date.
Engineers in Japan are working on a car safety system that uses specific imagery to indicate exactly what will happen if the driver doesn't correct their behavior.
Humans experience joy in a multitude of ways, yet the varied forms of suffering—death, divorce, separation—return to one root principle: loss. What drives the fear of loss is something far […]
Investors are banking on Ovuline, a company that helps women track their fertility online. They claim that their average user will conceive more quickly than the national average.
The pioneering technology, which involves a combination of different medical imaging systems, could eventually replace conventional autopsy.
The HAPIFork senses how quickly you're eating and vibrates when you're going too fast. It's built on the theory that slower eating helps the body regulate fullness.
This weekend, I saw a story on AU's Wall of Separation blog that was too funny not to share: According to the Jacksonville Daily News, members of the Baysden Chapel […]
Now that restrictions have been placed on which businesses can sell beer and when, Russian citizens are of two minds about the matter.
Here’s something worrying. People are worried. A survey taken in December found that increasing numbers of people are pessimistic about the future. 44% said they were fearful about what […]
One of the country's most conservative religious parties sets the record straight after a statement was made on Christmas asking non-Muslims not to use the word.
Individuals’ personalities – yours and mine included – are not as stable as we think they are.
Today at the Stone, Stephen Asma brings some post-holiday season grinchitude to bear on the concept of universal love. The call to love all the world’s citizens as oneself is […]