Monday, January 31, 2011

Parallel Universes - THE HIDDEN REALITY

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Today I took a journey to the outer edges of physics and cosmology. A world of precise mathematics but striking imagination. A world where...
Friday, January 28, 2011

The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

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When the Green Revolution took place in Iran last year, many of us saw every tweet of the revolutionaries. But, while it may have moved us, ...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

A peek into the future

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Tuesday night, the President talked a great deal about the future. About what the world might look like for the next generation. For most ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

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Last night the President spoke of the ways in which our economic world is changing. In fact, that change is taking place inside of and impa...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Myth of American Religious Freedom

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It’s safe to say that the one thing that the left and the right both have in common, with respect to the role of religion in public life, is...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

50 Years Ago Today

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Last week the President proved once again that words and speeches matter. That they have the potential to move people and even reset a deba...

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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Discussion never seems to end about the rise and growth of China. On this program alone, we've talked about everything from outsourcing ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

India Calling

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It has been an almost universal truth since Horace Greeley first uttered the worlds "go West young man," that the West offers oppo...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Bye, Bye Pluto

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Imagine, you go though life for almost seventy years with a good name, a stellar reputation and then one day that good name is gone. Instea...

The Military-industrial complex

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This has been an amazing month for speeches and anniversaries of speeches. Last week the current President of the United States gave perhap...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Why are we together?

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In spite of all the trouble inherent in our most intimate relationships, we still keep trying! Why is it that our quest for attachment seem...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Compassion

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As the events of the past week have shown, a nation or a house divided against itself cannot stand. While it's really easy to see why d...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Practical Wisdom

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Everywhere we turn today we see a kind of cynicism about all of our institutions. From governance, to business, to banking and education, w...

What Technology Watns

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We continue our series of conversations about technology with the remarkable Kevin Kelly , the founding editor of WIRED Magazine. Like it o...
Monday, January 10, 2011

OVERconnected

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Much as the printing press and later the telegraph & telephone transformed the speed and transmission of information, so the Internet ma...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The laws of the virtual world

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Today millions of people are truly living part of their lives in a virtual world. People are playing games, building communities, making fr...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Deadly Spin

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Before Congress thinks about tampering with the new health care laws, they need to take a close look at what former Cigna PR Executive Wende...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Finding Happiness

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Everybody wants to be happy as we go into the New Year. Shopping and gift giving alone may not have done trick. New Years resolutions may ...