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If just stay on the same pathway every single day that’s going to be a pretty predictable pathway of what you’re going down now.

Thomas Jefferson is known as the author of the Declaration of Independence, and the articulator of the separation of church and state. These high profile accomplishments tend to overshadow his […]

Participants at a recent two-day event at Stanford University followed the hackathon model to come up with business solutions in the growing field of food innovation.

Big Data is a phenomenon that’s impacting just about every business these days.

Someone might say—and libertarians skeptics often do—that classes in philosophy and literature are given a quite an arbitrarily inflated value by according them credit. Do away with the credit system […]

While it seems plausible that one or both of Christie and Paul will run for president in 2016, their prospects for success are less significant than the philosophy each man represents.

The world of Iron Man may be closer to being a reality than we originally thought. A group of design students at the Royal College of Art in London recently created […]

On the question of whether or not black people can swim the answer is yes, no and maybe. I asked the question in my book of a very special panel. […]

One company intends to shake things up by making images of our world’s surface available to all.

The Vatican recently announced that following World Youth Day events on broadcast or social media can count towards a length reduction…but only if it’s accompanied by “requisite devotion.”

I had found a new way to express myself, and it was with words. 

Every teacher is obligated to devote teaching time to direct test prep. 

Many successful networks (biological or non-biological) experience breakpoints—instances in which more growth is impossible. Consider the story of 29 reindeer on St. Matthew Island, a narrow piece of land located […]

Just as religion informed the dawn of civilized man, so too do these 21st century stories act as a shield – protecting our sanity from an overwhelming sensation of entropic change. We are trying to find the signal in the noise. But increasingly, the noise is becoming louder and louder. It’s like this treadmill we’re running on has reached a speed we can’t keep up with. Today’s prowess Kairos is being pushed into yesterday’s fleeting Chronos. It’s a collision of dizzying proportions… everything happens now.

Having a strategic plan is a vital aspect of any successful organization. Unfortunately, most organizations have strategic plans that are really financial plans in disguise. And the larger the organization, […]

What started out as a personal experiment to reduce a typical human’s nutritional needs to a single drink has now grown into an actual business, thanks to US$3 million in preorders and seed funding. One goal: Improving the taste.

Flying is incredibly safe.

If you’re anything like me, you can’t wait for summer to finally start. The Chicago winter dragged on forever and now the weather just can’t seem to make up its […]

On macro and micro levels, longer life is not working out. Almost all nations are aging and will confront the disruptive demographics of an aging society, some sooner than later. […]

Driving through Yosemite a few years ago, we came upon a blackened patch of the park still smelling burnt. By the look of this map, it must have been the […]

 You can get easily distracted by the next thing, the next thing, the next thing. 

I worry about what it’s going to mean as we begin to micromanage the genetics of our children. 

No matter what industry you’re in, your company can’t survive without technology. From smart phones and tablets to mobile apps and cloud-based technology, there’s a plethora of technological advancements to […]

In honor of Bastille Day, we are looking at five French ideas and how they have influenced the world. 

Using social media to participate in faraway religious gatherings is now officially grounds for the granting of “indulgences”, or time off a purgatory sentence given for confessed or forgiven sins. 

The Norwegian prison system believes that taking revenge on prisoners for their crimes, by taking away their rights, is counterproductive to the more important goal of rehabilitation.

God know we would have satellites one day, so He left us a message 

What does this phrase even possibly mean?

One article talks about the declining rates of procreation. Another contemplates job mobility. When I pull the fragments together into one tableau I’m left with the question: How it attachment […]

Don’t worry that you haven’t read every last thing because A) nobody else has and B) most of it you don’t need anyway.