Tyler Keillor (pronounced “KEEL-er”) is a soft-spoken, understated paleoartist whose work is anything but. He works at the University of Chicago as a paleoartist, reconstructing creatures that paleontologist Paul Sereno excavates on his expeditions around the world. When I met Tyler eleven years ago, he was working in a cavernous, three-story high cinderblock warehouse, with no heat and no ventilation (Sereno has since turned the space into a world-class dinosaur prep lab)
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There's a tendency for all of us to glorify the ideation process when in fact it's the reduction to practice that's perhaps more important, says Stephen Hoover, CEO of PARC, a Xerox company. What's the formula for moving from a great idea to actual implementation?
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In a small but very significant way Apple is trying to change China. It's a step perhaps no one else could make, and it's rather complicated.
Read More »Signs of Trouble at Leaking North Sea Gas Rig Month Before
By Oleg Vukmanovic and Karolin Schaps LONDON (Reuters) - Signs of trouble aboard a North Sea drilling platform where a natural gas leak has triggered fears of a massive explosion began in a plugged well a month ago, operator Total said on Friday.
Read More »Flashback: A Young Michael Dell Talks Growth Strategies
In a 1995 interview, the mastermind behind Dell Computer reveals how he went from dorm room to industry leader. In 1995, I spent an hour talking to Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer, about how he built his company from a startup in his dorm room into one of the largest PC manufacturers in the world
Read More »Best Buy’s Fate Lies With Boutique Mobile Tech, Not Big-Box Stores
Best Buy is shuttering 50 of its big warehouse-style stores and is going to remodel the remaining ones. It's all because the retail landscape is changing, shaped by the power of mobile technology
Read More »Has Innovation Lost Its Meaning? Percolate’s Noah Brier On Its True Definition
"For better or worse, the word 'innovation' has come to represent so much that it seems to have lost most of its meaning," says Noah Brier, cofounder of Percolate , a company that helps brands create content on a social scale. So a few years ago, Brier decided to read some of the early writings of Josef Schumpter, the first person to really talk about innovation in the field. "Reading his stuff really opened my eyes, as he had a very specific definition of innovation: The commercialization of an invention," says Brier.
Read More »CGI University Gets Involved: Microscholarships, Hens For Haiti, WaterWheels, And More
How many students does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? Tony Anderson, Morehouse College ’08, can answer that.
Read More »Climate Change Poses Disaster Risk for Most of the Planet
Climate change is bringing more droughts, heat waves and powerful rainstorms, shifts that will require governments to change how they cope with natural disasters to protect human lives and the world economy, a new U.N. report says.
Read More »Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers. This is the same subatomic particle decay explored in a 1964 Nobel Prize-winning experiment performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), which revealed the first experimental evidence of charge-parity (CP) violation a lack of symmetry between particles and their corresponding antiparticles that may hold the answer to the question "Why are we made of matter and not antimatter?"
Read More »Content Marketing: Next Big Buzz
If you haven't heard the buzz around 'content marketing' yet, you will soon. Here's what you need to understand now. There’s a term gaining a lot of traction in the digital marketing space lately: "content marketing." If you haven’t yet heard of it, you will soon.
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You can charge more than your competition once you learn how to make price irrelevant.
Read More »Amazon s Jeff Bezos Says He Has Located Apollo 11 Rocket Engines Lost at Sea
F-1 engines (red cones) on the Apollo 8 first stage. Credit: NASA Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO and one of the richest people in the world, has an abiding interest in the future of space exploration. His start-up Blue Origin is building suborbital launch vehicles and has received millions in NASA funding to develop next-generation spaceflight technologies.
Read More »Building a Strong Business: Bob Vila
Bob Vila isn't just a brand, he's an entrepreneur reinventing himself in a new economic landscape.
Read More »Neutrons uncover new density waves in fermion liquids
Scientists working at the Institut Laue-Langevin, one of the world's leading centres for neutron science, have carried out the first investigation of two-dimensional fermion liquids using neutron scattering, and discovered a new type of very short wave-length density wave. The team believe their discovery, published in Nature, will interest researchers looking at electronic systems, since high temperature superconductivity could result from this type of density fluctuations.
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