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After losing a limb in leading a platoon through an ambush in Iraq, Halfaker transformed her life of service in the military into a life of service through entrepreneurship.

With the likes of Whedon, Smith, Groening, Del Toro, and Roth as interpreters, Morgan Spurlock explores what's become a pop culture mainstay in Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope. Commonly, and mistakenly, considered the domain of smelly dudes in freaky costumes, Comic-Con has emerged as the epicenter for pop-culture influence and a hotbed for creativity

Your life may be long overdue for a change. Can you stop resisting and take the plunge

Missing Link describes its office, which includes a tattoo parlor, fire pole, and shooting range, as "a riot of color and carefully orchestrated chaos." Here's one way to explain Missing Link's office: "A riot of color and carefully orchestrated chaos." The Johannesburg-based company, which designs corporate presentations, had just six weeks to take the space from design concept to reality, but used the limited timeframe to dig up salvaged finds to create a truly eclectic look. And if Tribal DDB focused on minimalism, Missing Link went the opposite route entirely: a mashup of bathtubs, graffiti, and even a tree house to achieve an overwhelming—yet cohesive—design experiment.

These four outstanding offices use color to tell a story, incorporate mirrors for optical illusions, and house a tattoo parlor and a shooting range. No one likes to work in a noisy office

Plants mastered chemistry a long time before humans, billions of years actually . In fact, we humans and most of the rest of the life on Earth can thank tiny cyanobacteria for mastering/evolving the molecule known as chlorophyll. Chlorophyll--a pigment that absorbs blue light--is the key to photosynthesis, and photosynthesis is the key to turning sunlight into food.

Billionaire Ted Leonsis shares lessons he learned in living a life and building a business with no regrets. Ted Leonsis has just about done it all.

Why do millions mourn the death of Steve Jobs, a man they never met? Gawker curmudgeon Hamilton Nolan is right: "Steve Jobs was not God," read the headline to his recent post slamming those "whose remembrances have already taken on a quasi-religious tone" and advising them to "seek help." He was responding to the flood of grief that consumed the media, media watchers, and many others in the hours and days after Jobs' death was announced.

A clock that takes a year to complete a cycle gives new perspective on the passage of time. In many instances, it makes sense to measure time in seconds, minutes, or hours--if you're training for a marathon, scheduling meetings, or trying to make it home for dinner on time, there's really no other way to do it. But our obsession with small increments of time often keeps us from focusing on the bigger picture.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Mythbusters Hosts Get Steve Jobs Special . Discovery Channel has commissioned a one-hour special documentary into the life of Steve Jobs, titled iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World

In a Q&A with Inc.com, OfficeMax founder argues that consensus-building is over-rated. Sometimes a leader just has to decide

In a Q&A with Inc.com, OfficeMax founder argues that consensus-building is over-rated. Sometimes a leader just has to decide. Michael Feuer started OfficeMax from scratch in 1988, and built the office-supply chain into a 1,000-store behemoth before selling it to Boise Cascade Corp

Elias, the co-founder and CEO of Red Ventures, explains how he grew his company by giving up control. Nearing the end of 2009 , Ric Elias made a decision that would make most entrepreneurs cringe: He ceded control of his day-to-day business operations to four of his managers.

Ric Elias discusses why fear is bad for business at the Inc. 500|5000 Conference

A few years ago, soon after moving to Los Angeles, an old grad school buddy of the Time Lord came to town, Brian Schmidt, and we took him to a nearby tapas eatery for nibbles and pisco sours. I remember they were shooting a scene from a Will Smith movie that night, so nearby storefronts were riddled with fake bullet holes, and the odd fake gunfire and explosion interrupted our conversation.