Robert Kaplan’s op-ed on Patrick Leigh Fermor in the New York Times, “The Humanist in the Foxhole,” stands alone as a cool piece of writing worth studying. Kaplan writes: Unlike […]
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Motivational psychologist Scott Rigby explains why we can’t stop playing.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. This simple, succinct introduction opens the door […]
There’s little doubt that sports are good for the bodies and minds of people who play them. For people who watch them, though, sports are a negative.
We just opened up a positioning on the Involver Marketing team, I’ve loved developing relationships with you all as readers – and I think some of you might be a […]
Wise leaders like Gurbaksh Chahal create strong, adaptable organizations by hiring––and relying upon––driven entrepreneurs who share the core vision but have vivid dreams of their own.
One of the most disappointing moments in an otherwise fairly encouraging Republican New Hampshire debate was that none of the seven candidates would continue federal funding for human space flight. […]
The first day of GLS7 brought with it plenty of spirited debate and intense arguments, as you are likely to have with any diverse group of passionate professionals, but none so […]
Six months out of the year I try to spend as much time as possible on the roof of my building in Brooklyn, where I’m cooled by a non-air-conditioned breeze, […]
[If you’re willing, I could use a little help with an upcoming keynote to educators…] Digital technologies and the Internet are causing the lines to blur in a number of […]
I am busy packing up here on the eastern coast of Canada to get ready to spend next year in the sex and love capital of the world – Paris, […]
The Paris Air Show, one of the oldest and biggest events of its kind, gets under way at Le Bourget on June 20th with many of the exhibitors keen to promote greener aviation.
A project sponsored by the American government called “Internet in a Suitcase” is being used to help dissidents circumvent restrictions on information exchange in autocratic countries.
Is a virtual currency free of intermediaries tenable given the recent string of hacker attacks? One user of Bitcoin, a decentralized virtual currency, claims $500,000 was stolen from his account.
When friction makes machines less efficient, we grease the gears, but that macro solution doesn’t work with nanotechnology. Researchers are learning to shake nanomachines instead.
Google’s web-based laptop, Chromebook, is a valiant experiment, says Pogue, but unless you’re an early-adopter masochist with money to burn, you probably shouldn’t buy one.
A year ago, Ronald Shaich, the founder of Panera Bread, one of the biggest restaurant chains in the States, decided to try something different. He opened the Panera Cares Community […]
As I tracked with several colleagues in a 2009 paper, climate change-related health impacts such as extreme heat, disease, and respiratory problems, and more vivid threats such as hurricanes have received relatively […]
A couple of days ago Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a wide-ranging interview to the Associated Press, touching on Yemen. The secretary, who earlier this year admitted the US […]
Well, I finally wrote the article I always wanted to write: a letter to my 3,000+ faculty peers in Educational Leadership preparation programs all across the country about how our […]
A European space telescope has found 10 previously unknown alien planets, all of which are gaseous like Saturn or Jupiter. They boost the count of extrasolar planets to 565.
Airbus says in 40 years time we’ll be able to take night flights, 30,000 feet in the air, and be able to stargaze thanks to the plane’s nature-inspired transparent fuselage.
Is the sun about to enter a quiet phase in the 11-year solar cycle and what does that mean for our planet? Is there anything in all the talk about another “Little Ice Age”?
Members of an Italian commission that assesses major risks like earthquakes have been accused of manslaughter for allegedly not adequately informing residents of risk in 2009.
Why the urban model of widely separated high-rise towers in single-use residential districts—the “tower-in-a-park” model invented in the 1920s in Europe—is inefficient.
When George Washington (with some help from the French) forced the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown to end the American Revolution in 1781, the British played […]
Are we truly looking forward to an “Age of Abundance,” as Peter Diamandis suggests? A Big Think panel debates the future of business in the 21st century.
Presuming we can be über rational about risk denies the reality of the risks that arise because we CAN’T be.
Read about it here. The movement for a generation or so has been toward a lifestyle of increasing freedom on our college campuses. That’s meant “no rules” (beyond those connected with health-and-safety, and […]
In early 2009, I came across a new trend on the social web that immediately resonated with me. Local communities used a new platform called Meetup (www.meetup.com) to organize offline events . . .