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Robert Thurman: Everybody has a Buddha in there and Buddhas have more fun.
I can’t tell individuals at the point of collection what I’m going to use the data for. And therefore I can’t ask them to consent to that because there’s nothing to consent if I don’t know what I’m using it for.
At the top of the Teapot, a fantastic cluster dotted with Red Giants awaits. Image credit: © 2005–2009 by Rainer Sparenberg, via http://www.airglow.de/html/starclusters/m28.html. “The most difficult thing is the decision […]
“Sustainability is a really broad scope of dealing with conflicts or with issues or challenges that you come across,” says Efrat Peled, the Chairman and CEO of Arison Investments, a […]
From 30,000 feet above sea level, why aren’t the stars visible from an airplane? “Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free […]
Entrepreneurs are people who have dreams that go far beyond currently available resources. Managers bring discipline. Leaders get organizations to look for new commitments.
From President Camacho to Old Spice and beyond, his muscled comedic brilliance will leave you in stitches! “I call myself the Amusement Park. That’s because I’m funny and scary at […]
Non-interference was probably the most important thing that happened in my professional life.
I think that it’s great to inspire new generations of thinkers; it’s terrible to create new authority.
Here’s what it would look like if we started dreaming again. “There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program — your tax-dollar will go further.” –Wernher von Braun […]
If we wanted to know how cold it is now and was in the distant past, how would we figure it out? “Science casts a long black shadow back over who […]
You’ll be investing 5-to-7 years of your life. What will you get back? “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” –Benjamin Franklin Recently, a number of people — of widely different ages […]
What is it about the Earth that has allowed life to continue for such long periods of time? The most important factor is plate tectonics.
Embracing messiness and understanding that it is a contribution to the creative process is something that writers and creative types have got to cultivate.
February to May is talent season for NFL teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, the focus turns to replenishing and upgrading the roster, filling gaps and compensating for weaknesses […]
Innovation is different because it’s the only form of value that happens in the future for which we have no real data.
When large organizations bring in creative people they often want the outputs or the products of creative people, but are intolerant of the way the creative people operate.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: Religious belief is now something that scientists are looking at and trying to explain and I don’t think it’s an accident that the most prominent atheist writers come from the domain of evolutionary psychology.
97 percent of Fortune 500 companies have been hacked (and 3 percent likely have been too and just don’t know it). So how do we close the “Cybersecurity Knowledge Gap”?
Ready. Set. Go: dark matter in one minute.
Nitin Nohria: The best organizations allow human beings to acquire things that they value, to feel like a part of a team, to make sure the work they are doing is meaningful and that they have ways of defending their interests.
Money is just one of the resources that you have available to you like gas that goes in the car. It’s not the car itself.
“If you want people to eat healthy food it has to taste good,” says Steven Masley, a physician, nutritionist, and a trained chef. Masley is also the author of The 30-Day […]
The Web is about collaboration. The web is about empathy. The web is about multitasking. These are all qualities that women are very good at.
I think that Steve Jobs was brilliant. I think that he was an amazing risk taker, but I also think heroes are overrated.
You’re trying to really pit your wits against history, but we’re all in that situation.
David Gelernter: We’re seeing wisdom and moral seriousness come under attack and often from the same people who want to do the genetic engineering.
Cuddly toys, ripped to pieces. Their limbs and tails, snouts and eyepatches strung up and nailed to a museum wall. Teddy bears and their furry friends are supposed to be […]
It’s obvious to anybody that the mind does much more than solve problems.