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Language and Cultural Evolution
When we do think about the state or origins of language, we often think about it as something based in the distant past. But language is very much a…
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Technology will keep us together
As we listened to election results last week, the one thing we heard over and over again is the slicing and dicing of the electorate. Into generatio…
11 years, 5 months ago
Leading with Intention
In a business environment as data driven as ours is today, it’s not surprising that we don’t view success through the lens that Fitzgerald used to de…
11 years, 5 months ago
The Uncensored History of the Food Network
If the past 30 years of television has been about anything, it’s been about specialization. While ESPN was the leader and Granddaddy of specialty te…
11 years, 5 months ago
Rules for Assassins
Throughout history, from Cesar thru Lincoln, from Archduke Ferdinand and Gandhi through the Kennedys and Malcolm X, a bullet has changed the world.
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11 years, 5 months ago
Ratchets, Hatchets & Pivots
We are in the midst of a great migration to cities. The number of farms and people engaged in agriculture continues to decline. Yet human ingenuity…
11 years, 5 months ago
Why Motivating People Does not work
Todays workplace bears very little resemblance to that of our parents. It’s multi generational nature, its focus on employee empowerment and its ref…
11 years, 5 months ago
Love, Sex and Popular Culture in 21st Century America
Back in the early 1960’s the world took note of the decadence of life in the Italian capital of Rome, in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Inspired by two m…
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The making of Super Althletes
Almost no aspect of life has not been touched by the forward march of science and technology. The world of sports is no exception. When we watch a…
11 years, 5 months ago
Just how absurd is life on the West Bank?
The Middle East is always ripe with stories. Unfortunately, few get to the heart of the absurdity of the human condition there. In much the way tha…
11 years, 5 months ago