Guest Thinkers — February 22, 2011

Innovation linkage, April 13

Dominic Basulto

Understanding Most Significant Change [Shop Talk Marketing]

Royal Dutch Shell and the end of peak oil [The Weekly Standard]

The Innovation Slush Fund [Innovate on Purpose]

Creativity: What can I do on Monday? [Creativity and Innovation]

Lava Casualties and wristwatch manufacturers [Creating Blue Oceans]

Top 10 best tech products of all time [KomoTV.com]

A new eyesight chip that sends images to the brain [ScienCentral News]

What do people do all day on the Internet? [Stanford]

Chopstick + fork = Chork [Gadling]

Apple patents keyboard with click wheel [MacNN]

[image: The sources of innovative ideas]

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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