Throughout the day, Zynga has been trading at or bellow its initial stock offering. While Zynga will still cash in, is its proportional success a sign that the tech bubble is shrinking?
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Since, at its heart, Occupy Wall Street is a conversation about values that is leading to direct action — a beta test for a better society — people should not despair that it is a “leaderless movement.”
Eric Sanders, an active participant in Occupy Wall Street, offers advice to protesters for maintaining peaceful relations with the police.
When her product idea became an unexpected success, Victoria Ransom had to expand quickly. She was aware that choosing the right people would make all the difference down the line.
ACLU President Susan Herman outlines how you can legally and properly exercise your Constitutional rights when you are stopped by the police.
Get in to the holiday spirit by listening to Robert Pinsky read Dante’s Paradiso.
A group of entrepreneurs led by PayPal founder Peter Thiel are hoping to circumvent U.S. visa restrictions by floating a business incubator on a ship anchored 12 miles off the coast of California.
Following up on our study analyzing the shifting roles and emerging practices of science journalists in the digital age, Declan Fahy contributed a valuable discussion to the news site of […]
I wanted to highlight this excellent post on JT’s blog about the rewards of activism: Joe was sick in the hospital, and asked a friend of his to go down […]
In a rut? Instead of changing what you do, try changing how you think about it, says Roger Martin, a strategic advisor to global businesses and Dean of the Rotman School of Management.
A digital scrapbook of your entire life. That’s what Facebook is releasing with its newest product Timeline. But in telling the story of your life, you may want to do some editing.
The Attack of the 500-(Square)-Foot Bathroom: What a Plumbing Fixture Teaches Me About Modern Family
I was reading a trade publication about industry forecasts for bathroom fixture trends some time ago (don’t ask). “Large bathrooms are in,” the experts said. It’s true. American bathrooms have […]
Fusion energy expert Marcin Jakubowski has begun an open sourced hardware project that allows individuals to create their own simple tools to build stronger, more sustainable communities.
In his Floating University lecture, Dr. Nicholas Christakis explains why individual actions are inextricably linked to sociological pressures.
A forum where top mixologists explore the party drinks defining the 21st Century.
Here is a post for commenters who like to write, “Repeat after me people, correlation does not imply causality!” whenever they read an empirical result they do not want to […]
Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders’ career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today’s organizations. (Carla’s an actual executive […]
Who controls the Internet and how do these powerful groups shape our choices and in some cases threaten our privacy? Those are among the questions probed by Laura DeNardis, an […]
A new camera developed at MIT can snap a shot every 0.6 trillionth of a second. That’s fast enough to catch a laser pulse moving through a glass bottle or bouncing off a tomato.
Just when you think a contemporary art megastar such as Damien Hirst has done his worst to make a mockery of the modern art world, he finds a new weapon […]
With the 2012 presidential election season officially kicking off in Iowa on January 3, the focus has increasingly been on the state as a leading indicator of Middle America where […]
Instead of landing a craft on a comet, scientists want to study space rocks by firing a harpoon at them. The harpoon’s tip will collect rock samples and return them to Earth for study.
16 year-old Nick D’Aloisio has raised a quarter million dollars to develop an app that condenses any webpage’s content into summaries of three different, but brief, lengths.
Whatever your traditions, the holidays are a time to drink egg nog lattes, reconnect with friends and family, struggle gracefully to keep calm, and look back on all you achieved […]
Are you done? How many more days? Tick tock, tick tock. A recent Rasmussen poll may give you comfort or a kick. The nationwide survey conducted November 29-30, 2011 gives us […]
Mars’ Gale crater was chosen from over thirty potential landing sites for when Curiosity, NASA’s most ambitious Mars rover ever, touches down in 2012. What makes it so special?
To make solar panels, silicon wafers must be heated to high temperatures and that means using a lot of power. But a new optical furnace uses light to heat the cells which requires half the energy.
Aron Cramer, CEO of Business for Social Responsibility, has developed what he calls a “kaleidoscopic measure of business success.”
As the astute Ross Douthat points out, the race in Iowa is now between Gingrich and Paul Right now, the polls show Paul to be in second place, with Romney still fading […]