Guest Thinkers — February 22, 2011

The coolest innovation event of 2007 (now that the FORTUNE Innovation Forum is dead)

This has to be one of the most interesting events of the year – the first-ever New Yorker conference on innovation. The tab ($1,200), though, is a bit steep, unless there’s a high probability of actually mingling with the likes of James Surowiecki (The Wisdom of Crowds), Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink), and David Remnick (Lenin’s Tomb). Anyway, I’ll see if I can weasel my way into the conference somehow.

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.

▸

7 min

—

with

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.

Up Next

Guest Thinkers

Google innovation in the Big Apple

If you’re looking for a quick Google fix this week, Information Week is dealing. Start off by learning more about Larry Page’s pet innovation projects. Apparently, the Google co-founder thinks […]