Wednesday, November 26, 2014

The Marshmallow Test

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I can’t even count the number of times that guests on this program have spoken about what’s become known as the Marshmallow Experiments. In...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Valerie Plame's BURNED

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We live in an information age. The goal of virtually every App on our phone, and most websites, is perfect information; about the world, ab...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Mark Leibovich's portraits of Citizens of the Green Room

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Someone once remarked that when they saw a snake and a vulture having sex in Washington, and thought it was just business as usual. Fitzger...
Friday, November 21, 2014

The Business Moments You Can't Ignore

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It was actually Winston Churchill, not Rahm Emanuel, who said that we should never let a serious crisis go to waste. A crisis often creat...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Is Word of Mouth advertising driving Black Friday this year?

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John Wanamaker, the famous department store magnate, once said that he knew that at least half of his advertising budget was wasted. Proble...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Evan Osnos talks about his National Book Award winning, Age of Ambition

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Perhaps it’s the idea of 1.3 billion people, or that half a billion have moved out of poverty in such a short time. Perhaps it’s that C...

2014 National Book Award Winner, Jacqueline Woodson

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Recently we spoke of the 50 Anniversary of Freedom Summer and the early flowering of the civil rights movement. Much has been written of th...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Language and Cultural Evolution

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When we do think about the state or origins of language, we often think about it as something based in the distant past. But language is...
Monday, November 17, 2014

For the Military-Internet Complex, everyday is Cyber Monday

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There is virtually no aspect of life today, not impacted by the internet. From setting the thermostat in our house, to the games we play, t...

Cheryl Strayed's WILD

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Back in the 1940’s theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the serenity prayer. You all know it. It tells us to accept those things that we can’t ...

Gus Speth explains why the Environmental Movement still matters

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Perhaps part of what plagues us when we think about most issues today, is that we tend to see them in very myopic ways. The world is a more...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

Technology will keep us together

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As we listened to election results earlier this month, the one thing we heard over and over again is the slicing and dicing of the electorat...

Leading with Intention

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In a business environment as data driven as ours is today, it’s not surprising that we don’t view success through the lens that Fitzgerald u...

A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World

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One of the foundations of the changing nature of education, is the idea of deeper learning. Direct, hands on mastery of content, though sol...

The quest driven life

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To dream the impossible dream has been the great engine of progress in the world. From the early explorers, to scientists and engineers, to...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

The Sounds of Silence...Deaf Culture and what it means to hear

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Remembering the early days of the cell of phone, we all remember, “can you hear me now.” For most of us this was modern nuisance. But for ...
Friday, November 14, 2014

The Uncensored History of the Food Network

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If the past 30 years of television has been about anything, it’s been about specialization. While ESPN was the leader and Granddaddy of spe...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

How many scandals can we understand at once?

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If you’ve ever borrowed money for anything, from a mortgage to a student loan, you’ve been impacted by LIBOR. The London Interbank Offered ...