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Feed SubscriptionTaking On an Ambitious Project? Be Honest
It won't get you anywhere to gloss over the challenges of a new business venture. Three reasons why. Every day business leaders launch challenging, often risky, initiatives
Read More »Design That Makes a Difference
How I did it: Architect David Rockwell explains how he thinks not only about a building, but also about the way people experience it. David Rockwell believes that all the world is a stage. The 56-year-old architect's love of theater informs every design project ever done by his firm, Rockwell Group, in New York City.
Read More »How to Turn Failure into Success
The first step to becoming more successful is changing the way you think about failure. Failure is painful, right? Not for successful people.
Read More »Professor proposes challenge to prove whether people can see entangled images
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geraldo Barbosa, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University has posed an interesting challenge. He wonders if the human eye and brain together are capable of actually seeing entangled images. This is not a philosophical question, as he has phrased the query as part of a practical experiment that someone with the proper lab could actually carry out.
Read More »Weight-loss Challenge: It’s the home stretch!
With a few more days to go and a few more pounds to lose in the challenge, readers share their motivation and what's working for them.
Read More »Apple Doesn’t Sell Computers (& Neither Should You)
It's time to stop selling what you do, or make. Instead, start selling why you do it.
Read More »Taking the First Steps Toward Leadership
As a founding entrepreneur, you'll always be a leader in your company, no matter what your official title is. So how do you respond? When do I need to start being a leader?
Read More »Harness Creativity by Thinking Inside the Box
Forget getting your employees to think "outside of the box." Instead, use these four ways of challenging your team.
Read More »Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
In an impossible figure, seemingly real objects--or parts of objects--form geometric relations that physically cannot happen. Dutch artist M.
Read More »Readmill’s Henrik Berggren Is Making Your Social Graph An E-Bookstore
One major drawback to e-books is that there is no easy way to share text among friends. And there's little incentive for Amazon or Apple to solve this problem.
Read More »Can We Feed the World & Sustain the Planet? (preview)
Right now about one billion people suffer from chronic hunger. the world’s farmers grow enough food to feed them, but it is not properly distributed and, even if it were, many cannot afford it, because prices are escalating
Read More »X Challenge Winners Blow Old Oil Recovery Tech Out Of The Water
$1.3 million in prize money went out to two winners of the Wendy Schmidt Oil Recovery X Challenge, both of which far exceeded the current standard of oil cleanup technology. $1.3 million in prize money was awarded to two teams today in New York, winners of the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge
Read More »Oil Sucking Robots In Action [VIDEO]
This summer, the entrants in the Oil Removal X Challenge were put through their paces in an oil-filled pool. This is what it looked like. This past summer, the 10 finalists in the the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge spent their days in a pool at The National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility in New Jersey, trying to remove oil from water.
Read More »iPhone 4S Unveiled with Fast iPad Chip, 8-Megapixel Camera, but No iPhone 5 Yet
Could Apple’s media event Tuesday at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters possibly live up to the hype preceding it? Put it this way: if you’re an Apple fan you’ll probably love the tweaks that the company has made to iOS5 to better integrate the iPhone and iPad and their apps.
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