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What's the Latest Development? Urban America, in its idiosyncratic way, is warming to the idea of the bicycle. Cities like Washington DC and Portland have embraced bike sharing programs. New York City, which will introduce 10,000 bikes and 600 docking stations around the city this summer, is ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? Being connected 24/7 increases productivity up to a point, says new research, but then it causes stress, disrupts life and actually decreases worker output. Statistics gathered by Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow indicate that workers "who had time ... Read More
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As his ear continues to be bent by assorted British Government officials, spooks and former Ministers determined that he introduce further restrictions over disclosure of information in ‘sensitive’ court cases that affect National Security, perhaps Britain’s Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke might ... Read More
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Just around the corner from my desk something strange is happening. Miles and miles of hair is being teased into place, bucket loads of make-up are being applied and delicate feet are being squeezed into heels higher than some low rise buildings. As I haven’t been recruited into the Rocky ... Read More
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Take some standard tools for graphing data. Add the power of three-dimensional printing. Result: Data rendered not as a graph or chart, but as an object. A new frontier in the art of representing information, where it's turned into something not only comprehensible and beautiful, but touchable—an ... Read More
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The United States of America murdered an innocent man. But this is not the main reason we should be against capital punishment. Carlos DeLuna was put to death in 1989 for a murder in Corpus Christi, Texas. The victim, Wanda Lopez, was stabbed once through her left breast with a lock-blade buck ... Read More
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Several years ago University of California at Davis professor Dean Simonton conducted a study that examined more than three hundred creative geniuses born between 1450 and 1850. The list included thinkers Liebniz and Descartes, scientists Newton and Copernicus and artists Vinci and Rembrandt. He ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? Austrian scientists have built a sailboat capable of navigating the high seas without any human input. The boat will be launched this July with hopes that it will cover 150 nautical miles and work to collect data on Baltic Sea porpoises. Called Roboat, the sailboat ... Read More
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The buzz around Facebook’s IPO tomorrow got me thinking about the future of web startups, and of entrepreneurship more generally. To get some clues, I reached out to Brad Feld—a managing director at Foundry Group, a cofounder of TechStars, and an avid marathoner (he has already run 21 marathons ... Read More
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Believe it or not, this post continues with my theme of Cartesian America. As I explained, the Cartesian/Lockean American understands science basically to be technology. Its point is to make free persons more secure, comfortable, and "autonomous" in their natural environment. That means, of ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? A team of researchers at Brown University have taught a paralyzed woman to control a robotic arm with her mind, allowing her to take an independent sip of coffee for the first time in 15 years. After implanting a small electrode in the woman's brain, researchers ... Read More
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In 2005, Thomas Friedman elegantly pieced together the global frontier for readers in The World is Flat. A book that will go down in history as one that was right on the money, Friedman delineated the interconnectedness of our new world; an environment dramatically shaped by cutting-edge technology ... Read More
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What's the Big Idea? Up up down down left right left right B A start. Press these buttons in succession while playing any one of the more than 60 video games which recognize it and heavenly rewards will rain down upon you, from extra lives to infinite ammo to full-on God mode. Originally ... Read More
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What's the Big Idea? Vijay Vaitheeswaran surveys the landscape of the global economy and sees "wicked problems," to borrow a phrase from the subtitle of his bestselling new book, Need, Speed and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness and ... Read More
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“Facebook is worth $100 billion, but all I got was this lousy status update.” That just about sums up the type of public sentiment that has been inundating the Internet over the past few weeks. Facebook’s much-anticipated $100 billion IPO is almost ready to hit the market after a circus-like ... Read More
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How to Think Like Shakespeare
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Input/Output
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Inside Employees' Minds
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Human behavior in a post-rational world
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Paleo Parenting
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Picture This
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Looking at art leads to thinking about life
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Politeia
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American politics and the big picture
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Playing to win in a changing world
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Purpose, Inc.
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Re-Envision
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Risk: Reason and Reality
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Space Porn
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Stay Attuned
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Storming the Ivory Tower
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Cartographic curiosities
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The Big Brouhaha
Questions almost certain to generate controversy.
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The Big Enigma
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The Evolution of Enlightenment
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The Moral Sciences Club
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The Unwritten Rules
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A fistful of knowledge.
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