Inclusion draws upon the two-way nature of real human conversation. Yet inclusive communication goes a crucial step further: It extends the practice of back-and-forth interaction in a way that entitles people to give as well as take--to provide their own ideas, and not simply to parry the ideas offered by others
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Wireless Internet provider LightSquared has filed for Chapter 11 protection. LightSquared, the ambitious 4G wireless venture recently poised to bring lightning-fast Internet to the masses, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier today. Government tests found that LightSquared's signals interfered with GPS reception, a setback LightSquared was never able to recover from.
Read More »How barley domesticated its clock
Most organisms that live on or near the surface of the Earth or its oceans have evolved a circadian clock – a daily timer of all biochemical, physiological and behavioral functions.
Read More »Jerky Week, Part 3: Would You Buy Beef Jerky In Bulk Online From This Man?
Peter Garbowski of BulkBeefJerky.com is betting you would, as he tells us in the third installment in Fast Company's weeklong investigation into the surprisingly robust business of jerky. A food, Garbowski tells us, that's for everyone.
Read More »It’s Not Quite Funny Or Die, But Improv Works To Fuel Powerful Innovation
Tina Fey’s "Bossypants" was the inspiration for Ask.com to try out improv techniques to invigorate its team. Here's what happened when they got off their duffs and found their inner monkey saddles. When we last checked in with Ask.com, the grandaddy of question and answer platforms was changing direction.
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 »15 Ideas for Keeping Your Employees Happy
How motivated are your workers? We asked 15 successful young entrepreneurs to share secrets to sparking happiness and company loyalty around the office.
Read More »Physicists mix two lasers to create light at many frequencies
A team of physicists at UC Santa Barbara has seen the light, and it comes in many different colors.
Read More »Light pulses take a quantum walk
Tourists who drift aimlessly during a sightseeing tour are moving randomly - just like electrons that move from one atom to the next. To obtain a better understanding of these random motions it is often useful to reduce their complexity. Physicists do this by simulating random walks
Read More »Missed Your Sales Targets? What to Do Now
Use these 4 steps to get back on track after a big revenue miss.
Read More »What The Hell Is Project Management, Anyway?
"Project management" can sound like everything and nothing all at once. We spoke with a project management pro to clarify what it really means to get people moving in the same direction.
Read More »Gravitational Mesolensing And The Hunt For Exoplanets
It's full of lenses... When astronomers talk about methods for finding exoplanets the list is relatively short
Read More »Brookhaven physicists team up with medical industry to build advanced cancer therapy accelerator
A new collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory and Best Medical International (BMI) aims to design one of the most dynamic and effective cancer therapy devices in the world
Read More »FCC Blocks LightSquared’s Launch
Billionaire hedge fund manager Philip Falcone's hopes to build a state-of-the-art open wireless broadband network are put on hold because his signal jams GPS devices.
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