Posted in analysis of behavior, politics, social networks, tagged comfort zones, consequences, Cosmos, education, ignorance, imagination, magical thinking, myths, Nature, New York Times, obama, religion, science, silliness, superstition, survival, traditions on June 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Boy, has that a lot of meanings….
But consider this version of ‘cosmos’…
According to Lawrence Krauss of NEWScientist magazine, David Brook wrote in The New York Times in May that
“…while we moderns see space as a black, cold, mostly empty vastness, with planets and stars propelled by gravitational and other forces, Europeans in the Middle [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, tagged behavior, complexity, conditioning, consequences, fear, home, learning, magical thinking, office, politics, questioning, Statistics, superstition, training, value on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On any given day in the US in 2008 an average of about 148,000 people will die. Yawn. As the population swells it will grow larger. Yawn. As the population struggles with food, water, disease, contamination and war, those numbers will fluctuate higher and higher. Yawn. For many of us the numbers are so [...]
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One of the biggest misconceptions, or non-truths, in business is the idea that there is an agent of innovation. There is no individual innovator, an innovative business, an innovative group that is the cause or source of innovation. There is no agent capable of manufacturing innovation.
That’s a bold statement from someone (me!) who used to put “innovator” [...]
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