Wednesday, August 31, 2011

How well have we really done against Al Qaeda?

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Historians have often said that we always fight new wars with lessons learned from the last one. Ten years ago, after the tragic events of ...
Monday, August 29, 2011

The fall of the Cali Cartel

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Fathom events is re-releasing Scarface for one night only, this Wednesday. It's interesting to look at that movie in light of today...
Friday, August 26, 2011

The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars

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While we sometimes enter wars with the best of intentions, (Libya as a case in point,) the reality is often quite different. In almost all w...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Media Overload

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In Douglas Edwards' new book about the early days of Google, he tells the story about how Larry Page records program...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Pinched

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One of the most cliched expressions on Wall Street is, "this time it's different.” Usually, it’s not. The trouble is, some times i...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Making Sense of People

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We often ask the question, "what makes us human?" What we're really asking, is what makes up the complexity of the human perso...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Retromania

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How many times have you heard an old song that brought you back to a particular place and time. The music acted as a kind of transport devic...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Emperor of All Maladies

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Over the years we've engaged in many "wars." The War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, the recent War on Terror and in the early ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

China squared

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Winston Churchill once referred to the former Soviet Union as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. He was looking for some key to...
Monday, August 8, 2011

As We Speak

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It has been accurately reported that one of the greatest fears people have is that of public speaking. This is particularly unfortunate giv...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Hey, want to buy a painting....

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Art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors an...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

How to predict the future...

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It was Casey Stengel who said, "never make predictions, especially about the future."  In this rapidly changing world, it certainl...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Be Afraid...

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Just as we remember where we were when certain historic events took place, many of us have indelible image of where we saw and how we reacte...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Interrogator

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Espionage by its very nature exists in a kind of moral twilight. The decisions that spies often have to make may be repugnant to their own...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Google - The Early Years

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Particularly for those of us here in the Bay Area, we hear about start ups everyday. Do you every wonder what life is really like inside tho...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The skills of disruptive innovation

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As we learn more about genetics, one of the key questions that always seems to arise is about creativity. Can we simply be born creative, or...

How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives

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Why is it that humans are so resistant to change? Perhaps in large part this comes from a fundamental flaw in our brains. That is, that the ...