Technology & Innovation — April 10, 2012

Guy Kawasaki: The Simplest Piece of Career Advice You Don’t Want to Hear

Guy Kawasaki is the author of ten books, including his latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. For four years he evangelized Macintosh to software and hardware developers and “led the charge against world-wide domination by IBM.” In this video, he offers the simplest piece of career advice you don’t want to hear.

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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.

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High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

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

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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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