Sunday, April 6, 2014

Our quantified self - Or how our own data will make us happier

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Today, digital privacy is on everyone's mind. We know that every time we search, use an App, make an online purchase, or even go to the...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Fear and Loathing in the Atomic Age

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From the discovery of x rays at the turn of the century, to the tragedy of Fukushima, we’ve had 120 years of the nuclear age. Yet something...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon

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In Heart of Darkness, Conrad spoke of exploring up river with a “general sense of vague and oppressive wonder. Like a weary pilgrimage amon...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Self-Help That Actually Works - A True Story

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Who among us is not multitasking? The idea of watching or working multiple screens is now a term of art. But are the pressures, demands an...
Monday, March 31, 2014

There is no privacy! Should we just get over it?

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Back in 1999, almost fifteen years ago, Sun Microsystems then Gadfly-in-Chief Scott McNealy made his infamous statement that “you have zero ...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

The Road to Global Prosperity

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One of the strongest arguments for globalization and free trade, is that nations that do business together don’t go to war. The corollary of...

Why We Make Things and Why It Matters

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In the Netflix series House of Cards , Vice President Frank Underwood, a man dealing with and plotting the the fate of of the world, take...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

The Changing reality of the Business of Hollywood

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When it comes to Hollywood, William Goldman certainly may have been right when he said that, “nobody knows anything.” Certainly the forces ...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Why "the mall" in Pakistan is too important to ignore

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T.S. Eliot may have had the best take on trying to understand the world when he said that, “we shall not cease from exploration, and the ...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Dancing Through It

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Years ago I was having dinner with a friend and a friend of hers, who was a member of the Joffrey Ballet. I asked this young woman how is w...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Portrait of an Artist as a Dead Man

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William James talked about “the bitch goddess success,” and the strange sacrifices that it takes from us. Today, the same might be said o...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Three Young Americans Imprisoned in Iran

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Ever since the Iranian hostage crisis in November of 1979, political and diplomatic relations between the US and Iran have been irreparably ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Why General Relativity still matters

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We all know the equation E=MC2. We’ve all read about Einstein's theory of general relativity. But how many of us know what it means, h...

The Birth of Right and Left

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Today, virtually everything in society has become atomized by the left/right, red/blue debate. Whether it’s culture, entertainment, politic...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

No One Has the Time

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We all intuitively know that the greatest gift we can get today, is the gift of time. We just don’t have enough. The pressures and stre...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The Looming Generational Showdown

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We spend a lot of time talking about technological change. The impact that everything from our phones and the Internet to...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

How well do we handle feedback?

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Someone once referred to advice, as sanctioned nagging. It’s cute, but the fact is that we get advice all the time. Some of it is valuable...