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In the 19th century, artists including Degas, Monet, and Renoir got together periodically to discuss their commissions, their patrons, and their industry. This circle met consistently, and the artists credited these small gatherings with not only making their careers but the rise of the impressionist movement.

Bones have amazing electrical conductivity properties and, as one artist recently found out, can vibrate at the right frequencies to make a lovely macabre speaker set. Turned on its head, bone's response to physical stress can be used to produce music---or at least musical tones. That's what artist Boo Chapple discovered during the course of a year-long collaboration at the University of Western Australia's SymbioticA lab , the only research facility in the world devoted to providing access to wet labs to artists and artistically minded researchers.When Chapple began this project, she knew that extensive scientific literature suggested bone had what are known as piezoelectric properties

Building a stable team is critical to building success. Here's how to inspire morale and loyalty when you cant compensate competitively

When an international collaboration of physicists came up with a result that punched a hole in Einstein's theory of special relativity and couldn't find any mistakes in their work, they asked the world to take a second look at their experiment.

We kick off our Leadership Hall of Fame , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Practically Radical , written by Fast Company magazine cofounder William C. Taylor .

Rachel Shechtman just launched her new venture, A Startup Store , in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. The store, still in "beta," currently features a rotating selection of startups and their products in a physical retail space, including: Artspace, Birchbox, Baublebar, Joor, and Quirky. But A Startup Store will be ever-changing and ever-morphing

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Facebook Testing "Listen" Button

I'm hiring a college intern for the winter break. So I mapped out a plan to make it worthwhile for my start-up--and for her. I have some public relations needs for FamiliesGo! that I haven't been able to get to and I'm not ready to pay a professional PR firm

When I ask creative teams to tell me about how they push ideas to fruition, one of the things they swear by is fighting. [twistage 91f06d19df4f1] You have multiple people in the room with a strong vision for what should happen. The tug-of-war of ideas is part of the creative process

With the economic downturn, can companies still become great? We continue our examination of the business book Good to Great with an interview of author Jim Collins. What was the impetus for you to write Good to Great

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?

Why, oh why?

To create customers loyal enough to stand in line for you, start by earning the loyalty of your employees. And there's only one way to do that. In a world where careers have become as portable as cell phones and BlackBerrys, ordinary loyalty is fast disappearing from the business landscape.

Use these questions to analyze your recent sales performance--both wins and losses--to get more wins in 2012. “Learn from your mistakes.” You’ve probably been hearing this all your life from well-meaning parents/teachers/bosses.

Continuing the ongoing efforts to highlight creative disrupters , Fast Company spoke with the executive creative director behind a once-scrappy free Canadian mag that's become a groundbreaking multi-media machine. (Bukkake past and all.) Image by Dan Meyer Vice Media debuted in 1994, as a Montreal magazine best known for its handy guides on topics such as shagging Muslims and the art of bukkake , hand-delivered by three friends in their parents' vans