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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 […]

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 […]

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?

[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 […]

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.

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. […]

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, […]

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. […]

The day after Halloween is probably a good day to write about fear. I just finished reading The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner. In this highly-acclaimed book, Glassner points […]

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 […]

Can China continue to grow richer without wrecking the global environment? Will China’s carbon dioxide emissions overwhelm the world? China relies on coal for most of its energy.

So, I was thumbing through the most recent issue of FORTUNE magazine and clipping out some advertisements from corporate sponsors that touched on the innovation theme. I came up with […]

While coal has long supplied energy to the Navajo tribe in Arizona, new inspiration and political will is calling for renewable energy to build the society’s future.

Every year the School Administrators of Iowa asks its members what priority it should give to various legislative and/or lobbying issues. Here are my responses to some of the items […]

Below is my comment to Justin Bathon’s latest post . Mosey on over to his absolutely excellent school law blog and let him know what you think… Some questions for […]

How can an entire universe come out of nothing? This would seem to violate the conservation of matter and energy, but Michio Kaku explains the answer.

It’s long been speculated that the largest moon of Saturn, Titan, has large volcanoes made of ice. In 2005, it was thought that one of these ice volcanoes had been […]

An Australian-based firm’s $3.9 billion bid for a coal mine in Mozambique says much about its ambitions and the battle that giant mining firms will face in securing Africa’s resources.

In Germany, utility companies pay homeowners and businesses for power generated by alternative energies that is fed into the electricity grid. Should the U.S. take note?

n nThe other day, the Wall Street Journal featured one of the most inspiring stories about innovation that I’ve read in quite some time. Shai Agassi, once a fast-rising senior […]

The recent economic turmoil has started me thinking about being on the “buy” side and the “sell” side of innovation. Almost any industry has a “buy” side and a “sell” […]

Want to get a some more volcano news from aspiring bloggers in my First Year class? Check out their first posts on the blog for the class – we’ll be […]

Last week I called attention to a front page article at the Washington Post which questioned the impact of the $90 billion spent by the Obama administration on the creation […]

Comments like this drive me crazy: “So it is a Saudi-Iranian proxy war,” he said. (The he being: Simon Henderson, director of Gulf and energy policy at the Washington Institute […]

This holiday weekend, many in the science community are focused on the launch of “rapid response” coordination to provide faster, more accurate details about climate science to journalists and decision-makers.  […]

France generates 80 percent of its energy from nuclear power, notes Graham: “Surely we can be as bold as the French.”

We tend to think of Einstein as a highfalutin theoretical physics guru, but the physicist also worked on much more everyday tasks—like developing an energy-efficient refrigerator.