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Looking to explain a new leadership model he saw gaining traction, organizational behavior expert Paul Lawrence found inspiration and answers in Darwin's The Descent of Man.
What this NYC Fire chief learned from his experience at the World Trade Center on 9/11, how it has affected his command style and the importance of the five Cs.
With the fashion industry emerging as one of the driving forces of innovation within the Internet world, it could have an important impact on the number of women who explore […]
Just a few weeks after September 11, 2001, the owner of a vacant storefront on Prince Street in Soho taped a picture of the lost World Trade Center in the […]
--Guest post by Jan Lauren Boyles, American University doctoral student. “The motion passes, 5-4.” With that statement earlier this year, members of the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to close its […]
On September 11, 2001, Americans were challenged, we were assaulted, we were able to turn to each other and ask for help. And that "is one of the greatest testaments to what it means to be an American."
Psychology and Neuroscience agree that tests themselves can be a valuable teaching tool, when they're brief, they're frequent, and they offer students immediate feedback.
For Strauss Zelnick, the tablet computer represents a kind of Singularity - a convergence of media and productivity into a single, highly portable, optimally viewable platform.
1. So my apologies for just not getting the Hitchens post yesterday done properly. It was sloppy, the link magically disappeared, I somehow managed to post it twice, and I […]
At the time of his arrest by the FBI in 1995, Kevin Mitnick was the most wanted hacker in America. Today Kevin continues his hacking adventures legally, as a computer security expert.
Today, north of the border, in one of my favorite Canadian cities, there is a book launch for Michelle Shephard's new book, Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism's Grey Zone. […]
Entrepreneur and virtuoso exam-taker Shawn O'Connor explains how to unleash your brain's inner genius and conquer any test.
The Gates Foundation has made a new foray into the contentious field of GMO crops. This time it's a bid to develop virus-resistant cassava varieties for Africa.
IBM envisages tomorrow's computer as a big sandwich of silicon chips. It's teaming up with 3M to develop a special glue that would make the evolutionary leap in computing possible.
This semester I am teaching a doctoral seminar on the important questions and trends related to media, technology and democracy. In this post, I introduce several major topics and provide […]
The GOP debate was last night was terrible. Too many participants, too much time for everyone to crank up their stump speech answers, too little heat on follow up questions, […]
In a report published in January 2011, 75% of the students surveyed said that they would prefer printed textbooks over digital textbooks. About one week ago, the Kno app for […]
This week Feministing called the UK Bill that would have banned abortion counseling “anti-choice” legislation. I think they have got that all wrong. The current arrangement gives abortion providers a financial […]
Presidential hopeful Rick Perry told a little kid that if he were a superhero, he'd be Superman, a great American. Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine thinks that's a great idea. […]
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