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What do hyper-creatives, emergency room nurses, and CEOs have in common? Dr. Aaron Blackledge has identified a particular neuro-chemical pattern.

Silicon Valley appears to be the world's greatest meritocracy. Unless you're a female entrepreneur trying to raise venture funding. In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy.

Obama delivering his 2012 State of the Union address In his State of the Union address last night, President Barack Obama spent less time than in years past discussing his ambitions to reform science education. He referred to his administration’s offer to let states opt out of No Child Left Behind (” … grant schools flexibility to teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test …”)

We asked members of the Inc. community what one question they want the president to address in Tuesday night's State of the Union. Here's what they had to say.

It's in style to dismiss business school, and higher education in general, as unnecessary. But our company wouldn't exist without it.

Kiva's director of social performance illuminates how the nonprofit has confronted naysayers as it expands its microlending to the U.S.

Apple has demonstrated again and again its ability to create and reinvent content marketplaces by designing irresistible devices and platforms--will educational content be its next conquest? When I was in college 10 years ago, my biology textbook was a $300, four-pound monstrosity with a shiny CD-ROM shrink-wrapped to the front.

The giant consumer technology firm revealed in its "Apple Supplier Responsibility Report" for 2012, available for perusal here , that it had carried out 229 individual audits among its diverse and largely secrecy-shrouded supplier chain. Looking for responsible behavior across all aspects of its business, Apple paid attention to labor and human rights, health and safety, environmental impact and more ephemeral aspects like ethics and business practices

Here are 5 reasons your city makes a big difference to the success of your business. We all hear about the critical role that businesses play in the competitiveness and economic growth of our cities.

A few months ago I wrote a piece for the Washington Post . The next day, my friend Lew emailed me with a link to an article about motivation through rewarding others that appeared on the page opposite my piece

A look at Baratunde Thurston, the Director of Digital at The Onion, a Harvard philosophy major turned consultant turned standup comedian and author of How to Be Black. Flux to the core.

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher.

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher. Probably sometime in the 1430s, Alberti wrote “De commodis litterarum atque incommodes” (The Use and Abuse of Books), in which he extols the virtue of scholarship

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher. Probably sometime in the 1430s, Alberti wrote “De commodis litterarum atque incommodes” (The Use and Abuse of Books), in which he extols the virtue of scholarship.

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher. Probably sometime in the 1430s, Alberti wrote “De commodis litterarum atque incommodes” (The Use and Abuse of Books), in which he extols the virtue of scholarship. In this work, Alberti also provided insightful commentary and life advice to scholars about marriage, choosing a profession, the state of education, and a number of other contemporary topics