Thursday, November 12, 2009

"A really big show."

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Before the advent of cable, i Pods, Satellite or the Internet, we got all of our home entertainment from just three television networks.  An...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A survivor's tale

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By any account it was one of the most gruesome and heinous crimes of our times. On April 14, 1989 Ramon Salcido went on a killing sprees in ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Smart on Crime

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Kamala Harris may be the next Attorney General of the state of California. She is currently the District Attorney of San Francisco and name...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Nothing Was the Same

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Kay Redfield Jamison , in her best selling THE UNQUIET MIND , was a guide in understanding the nature of depression, bipolar disorder and th...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Google

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It is the behemoth of the digital age.  It has steamrolled over traditional media companies and yet it's run by engineers who strive to ...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

One year and counting......

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One year ago this week we concluded one of the most transformative Presidential campaigns of all times.  A campaign and an election that wil...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

How Poker Explains the World

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Invented in China, refined in France, for almost two hundred years, poker has been the favorite American pastime.   In his new book Cowboys ...
Monday, November 2, 2009

Tokyo Vice

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You may have recently seen Jake Adelstein on 60 Minutes , expounding as one of the worlds most knowledgeable voices on the Yakuza and the J...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Social Networks are contagious

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The work of Nicholas Christakis , physician, scientist and sociologist at Harvard has been cited in over two thousand media outlets in the p...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Deepak Chopra

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Long one of the worlds most powerful advocates for the connection between health and consciousness, Deepak Chopra now takes the process a s...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Who is Ayn Rand?

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Know primarily for her bestselling books THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED, Ayn Rand is one of the 20th century's most controversial a...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Egos, Ambitions and World Trade

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Though often maligned and misunderstood, the World Trade Organization, sits at the center of the global trading system and is arguable a key...

The Fire that Saved America

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At a time when the terms "sustainability" and "green" are becoming a national religion, National Book Award and Pulitzer...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Supply-Side Economics R.I.P.

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When one of the architects of supply-side economics in the Reagan era, says that it should go out of business, you know the times are changi...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Be not afraid

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Whether it is fear of aging, of unemployment, of terrorism, of natural disasters, or simply of change, fear has become the dominant paradigm...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The Wasp that no longer stings

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F. Scott Fitzgerald had said that their power came from "animal magnetism and money." Yet, they eschewed vulgar displays of wealth...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Oil & Water

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Oil and Water don't usually mix. But they do when we think about the two natural resources whose future scarcity could reshape our worl...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Nature vs. NurtureShock

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Suppose everything we think we know about raising children were turned upside down? Po Bronson , author of the previous cutting edge books ...