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Craig Newmark on promoting democracy online.
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The new trust busting battles begin.
Free market ideology uses democratic vocabulary as propaganda, obscuring a non-democratic reality.
In case you missed it from earlier this week, Walter Isaacson visited Big Think to discuss the inextricable link between new technologies and creative communities built around them.
Doing any networking this week? If you aren’t, you probably feel you should. For a generation we’ve been hearing that rich social lives will find us jobs, get our chores […]
New research finds that government regulations that restrict the supply of abortions performed after 15 weeks gestation in the state of Texas increased the price of late abortions by 37% […]
Oh how I wish David Foster Wallace had been my English professor. The University of Texas has recently posted the syllabus from the English 102 class he taught at Pomona […]
John Jeremiah Sullivan has written a beautiful, beautiful piece about David Foster Wallace in GQ. It isn’t easy to write about Wallace; how Sullivan chooses to do it is illuminating. […]
Racial animosity is racial animosity, whatever flavor it comes in – southern redneck scorn, poorly disguised northern liberal contempt, conservative country club hatred, or the calculated disdain of minority elites […]
“It’s time we Met,” reads several posters in the latest marketing campaign of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. A recent piece by Peter Aspden titled “Met […]
Despite the crucial cost cutting that businesses are undertaking in this economic climate, it’s also important to be thinking about tomorrow, says Accenture’s Mark Foster.
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Management consulting expert Mark Foster thinks that businesses need to be poised to tap into new sources of global ability.
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A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.
Business acumen training can help everyone from individual contributors to directors learn how to seize opportunities for growth.
To gain its full value, L&D leaders must be open to challenging assumptions about how they approach on-the-job training.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
Creating a culture of innovation requires champions and cheerleaders at every level and in every function within an organization.
The “island rule” hypothesizes that species shrink or supersize to fill insular niches not available to them on the mainland.
To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.
Most people care what others think of them. In many situations, that can be leveraged for the common good.
What distinguishes effective from ineffective leadership training? Read on to find out.
Considering the perspectives of others has important benefits for individuals and for society. There is one easy way to do it.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn’t catch on.
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
While cities drive national economic growth, their political geography means they cannot effectively deal with inequality, poverty, and other socioeconomic problems.
A history of injustice and the greatest natural location for ground-based telescopes have long been at odds. Here’s how the healing begins.
By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.