Chicago native Judy Cohen Gerowitz became Judy Chicago in 1970 for many reasons. One was to throw off her father’s and husband’s names and the male dominance behind that practice. […]
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It’s possible that over time that we can develop the equivalent of almost a one-click shopping across the internet.
If I’m looking to find out what is the case with the war and whether the war is legitimate, I’m probably not going to be fully satisfied with the New York Times or theWashington Post or Fox News or CNN.
If you don’t have enough people with an urgent frame of mind, it’s like putting up a tall building and you don’t put in the pilings deep enough.
Inspirational leaders understand and can scale the distinction between doing something and, as capitalists, making money versus doing something in order to make money.
A business throws out pollution but doesn’t have to account for it or pay for it.
Dressing up is a life-affirming activity. It’s an anti-depressant.
To what extent do we want to live in a society where everything is up for sale?
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Culture wants masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.
Is willpower something that we’re born with and live with our entire lives?
This past weekend the 2013 CrossFit games ended, once again crowning Rich Froning as the fittest man on Earth. CrossFit is a combination of high intensity workouts that combine power […]
The world tends to reward specialists.
I’m so concerned about the fact that Big Data is going to change the world in every conceivable way.
When I joined Google I really believed that they would be out of business within a year just because a lot of startups failed, most startups fail. And so for me it was about getting that experience.
The first serious discussion of a legal right to privacy in the United States didn’t come until the year 1890 and that was because of the invention of a technology and that technology was the Kodak camera.
Animals behind cages, starving and dying, is an awful sight. It’s an image that underlines the callousness with which humans treat other creatures and indeed themselves. The philosopher, Immanuel Kant, […]
I’m getting old – my God, you know. It’s horrible because I am, in a way, in a good sense, a pathological person, in the sense that for a long […]
All life starts fused with its parents.
How the most powerful telescope ever built will owe its successes and discoveries to scientists who’ll never get the glory. “The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without […]
The art market is a market where commodification is the purpose even at the level of museums which effectively exist by virtue of the generosity of patrons.
One of the most interesting ways to get into the minds of scientists is to look at their tattoos.
There are over 200 channel choices in the average home. That’s an age of choice. That’s pretty exciting.
A good half the time, I’m doing what I want to do, which is very rewarding. It’s like play.
I’m generally more of a pessimist but I think that the more we learn and discuss very openly and frankly things that have historically been regarded as shameful when it comes to sex is a good thing.
Pew released an interesting survey today on millennial women’s and men’s perceptions of the workplace. It makes me wonder about the role of surveys in shaping (rather than simply recording) […]
Ultimately we’re never going to get people used to the rate of exponential change. Humans will always be somewhat resistant to it.
We are living through a huge evolution in our understanding of habits.
Now a few years into Peter Thiel’s experiment, 60 fellows have received $100,000 grants to skip college for two years. We’re now starting to see some of the results come in.
When I touch my finger to my nose I actually don’t want the signal from my nose to go too fast.