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A dynamic business that can both adapt and take proactive steps toward change will be most successful in the new economy.
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A conversation with the Harvard Business School professor
Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law at the NYU School of Law, says primary elections exacerbate political polarization. He thinks we should replace them with instant-runoff voting.
Polygamy is alive and well in parts of America. According to researchers at Brigham Young University, there are 30,000 to 50,000 people currently living a polygamist lifestyle in the United […]
By now you’ve probably heard about Fox News’ parent corporation giving a million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. Noteworthy, but not necessarily surprising. While leafing through the RGA’s IRS […]
There is a big difference between manners and good taste, says interior designer Thom Filicia, one-fifth of the Fab Five from Bravo’s popular “Queer Eye” series. Knowing what society requires […]
Todd Purdum has a feature in Vanity Fair this month that is so rich with insight, color, and analysis regarding the communication challenges facing the Obama administration that I immediately […]
Yale professor David Gelernter tells Big Think that America should acknowledge its identity as a Judeo-Christian society and mandate teaching of the Bible in our public schools. America is a […]
“Is the purpose of public education to nurse students or to teach them?” asks Brian Crosby, a twenty-year veteran high school English teacher and the founder of the American Education […]
More than 50 years after the publication of CP Snow’s seminal Two Cultures, interdisciplinary partnerships between science and other academic “cultures” are being urged once again. Today, the focus is […]
A new study of birds concludes that parents get more help when they are sexually faithful to each other and "leaves little doubt that promiscuity corrupts social life in birds."
London: Westminster sources claim that the former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy, has been discussing defecting to the Labour Party, with four or five Liberal Democrat colleagues. The […]
In the Atlantic Wire series looking at how people stay on top of the news without surrendering to its chaos, Wired magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson shares his tips.
Facebook risks an inevitable privacy backlash with the launch of its feature sharing information on the location of users with their online friends, says Jemima Kiss.
The prolific and admired English literary critic Frank Kermode, 90, was by his own admission a failed novelist and playwright who "stumbled into academic life", writes T. Rees Shapiro.
In its editorial, Nature says WHO deserves praise for its (albeit imperfect) handling of the "potentially disastrous" H1N1 influenza pandemic threat.
Frank Thadeusz looks at whether the lack of copyright law — and resulting wider dissemination of scientific discoveries — laid the foundation for Germany's industrial might.rn
Much of excellent teaching involves intangibles but if data can show that some teachers are far better than others, the public should know, argues Op-Ed editor Sue Horton.
Mikhail Lyubansky doesn't condone crime but feels compassion for those who rape or kill. He says being kind to the cruel does not imply cruelty for those deserving kindness.