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Former Shell Oil president John Hoffmeister has been gaining considerable news attention this week for his warning that gas prices might reach $5 a gallon by the 2012 election. His […]
Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and […]
Saw this advertisement for tiny Trinidad & Tobago in the Wall Street Journal yesterday highlighting the country’s enormous innovation potential: “Every country has a moment before promise becomes reality. With […]
n Over the past 12 months, the whole notion of “design thinking” has come into vogue. Not only are there entire books devoted to “design thinking” – like Tim Brown’s […]
Will a new clean energy industry—the production of wind turbines and solar cells—be able to replace the manufacturing jobs which have vacated the Rust Belt states?
As environmentally friendly labels have proliferated, the meaning of those claims has become increasingly vague. Now some large companies are trying to better define such terms.
The largest economy in the world is likely to stay slow even though the recovery finally seems to be gaining momentum. This has nothing to do with our current economic crisis and everything to do with long-term demographic trends.
The doubling of computer processing speed every 18 months, known as Moore's Law, is just one manifestation of the greater trend that all technological change occurs at an exponential rate.
It turns out that there are small clusters of innovation being created all over the world, in some places you might least expect.
What no one knew until now is that most cars would not work without the intervention of one of Einstein's most famous discoveries: the special theory of relativity.
Over at the On Our Minds @ Scholastic blog, Tyler Reed is pondering the recent announcement by the Lamar (MS) County School District that it will prohibit teachers from communicating […]
Charles Spencer of American University Media services did a terrific Web story on the Google science communication fellows program I will be participating in this year. Here’s an excerpt where […]
Influencers are what makes the greentech industry world go round, so here are the 10 individuals that have had the biggest effect on the greentech sector this year.
I just finished teaching my Thursday night class “Leading Change” and decided to blog about the changing paradigm of offering courses and entire programs entirely online or through a blended […]
Teamwork. Support. Group (there’s that word) synergy. These are all hallmarks of positive business-speak and, one would assume, business practice. They’ve become the modern calling cards of businessmen who want […]
When future astronomers look to the sky, they will no longer witness the past. Observations will reveal nothing but an endless stretch of inky black stillness.
A number of visionary companies that are changing the way we think about consumption: Zipcar, FreeCycle, Netflix, Etsy, CouchSurfing and Zopa.
A few random thoughts that have traveled through my brain today… Next week I am giving two presentations at the Minnesota educational technology (TIES) conference. One is on administrator blogging. […]
What do teachers need from administrators? Inherent in that question, I see a fundamental problem with education both in public schools and in private schools. And that is that we […]
Here are my notes from Day 2 of the World Technology Summit. I’ve been hangin’ with Dr. John Nash, my colleague at ISU. Today we learned about India’s Barefoot College […]
An alternative to batteries gets an advance from tiny, crumpled sheets of graphene, whose electrodes can store more charge because they have larger surface areas.
Travel has long had an environmental cost: gasoline, jet fuel, spandex pants for bicycling. With space tourism soon to become a common occurrence, what will be the environmental price?
n nn nn The Economist has caught the innovation bug — as part of Project Red Stripe, a team of Economist staff members are assembling some of the best ideas […]
The ongoing story about “virtual demonstrations” in Second Life by Venezuelan dissidents illustrates the various ways that our collective notions of “real life” and “virtual life” are blurring together. Are […]
Energy efficiency in the home, particularly the notion of the smart grid, has been a concept of increasing interest both by ordinary citizens and large-scale corporations in the energy sector. […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Cognitive dissonance . noun. conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between one’s beliefs and one’s actions. [definition from the American Heritage Dictionary ] I believe that one […]
Last week the Washington Postran a revealing front page article on the challenges facing the Obama’s administration’s efforts to create a market for renewable energy products and so-called “green” jobs. […]
Every now and then, the Wall Street Journal features results from The Patent Board, which has developed more than 50 indicators that track global patent activity relating to companies’ innovation, […]
I’ve been thinking more about systems for success recently. n Adopting a framework is generally the best path to success. In building a successful startup, you can holy-war over what […]