Comment on Node ant

Charles Fishman — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:06:07 -0500

Comment on Node ant

Charles Fishman — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:52:17 -0500

Little Noticed Election Landmarks: Women In Charge (& Not)

Charles Fishman — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:52:34 -0500

Last Tuesday, New Hampshire voters elected 13 women to the state Senate, out of a total of 24 seats -- the first time women have been the majority in any U.S. state legislative body. Flagged by Fast Company alum Dan Pink, with an NPR interview.

Fish on Friday: Two Dramatic Statistics Bracket Today’s Sweet & Sour Economy

Charles Fishman — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:34:14 -0500

Two numbers leap out of the recent news that seem to capture — in very personal ways — both how deeply serious the short term pain in this economy is going to be, and how amazingly regenerative the economy is likely to be.

The pain first. Earlier this week, Whole Foods Market, which runs the nation’s most entrancing and most expensive grocery stores, reported profits for its most recent quarter. The bottom line for Whole Foods in the months of July, August, and September?

$1.5 million in total profit.

The Poverty Problem: Pinpricks of Insight From Rimini, Italy

Charles Fishman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:55:50 -0400

Sometimes there seems to be a world of significance packed into a single moment, or a single sentence. At Pio Manzu’s four-day conference about global poverty, the speakers’ roster is packed with smart, worldly people, and there were a half-dozen moments that caught my attention.

The Poverty Problem: Field Notes From a Global Summit in Rimini, Italy

Charles Fishman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:36:18 -0400

I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing in Rimini, Italy, although I’d come a quarter the way around the globe to get there; my puzzlement aside, it’s a lovely spot to spend the weekend.

Rimini is the kind of small, surprising Italian city that most Americans never hear of, but that feels instantly comfortable. It’s a resort town on Italy’s east coast, with a wide flat beach running for miles, the gray Adriatic Sea on one side, and dozens of hotels, bars and restaurants on the other. It’s like a lot of east coast beach towns in the U.S., with signs in Italian.

How Toyota is Squeezing Innovation Out of Hard Times

Charles Fishman — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:31:42 -0400

We’ve all got work-related stuff in a little pile waiting for that moment when we have time to stop, think and pay attention — the magazine articles to tackle, connections to pursue, ideas to expand on, skills to improve, all those things that might blossom into something great, but that are not urgent.

At Toyota, they’ve found the time to pay attention to those things. It’s called the economic downturn.

Fish on Friday: Yesterday, I was very afraid. Today, I’m safe & sound.

Charles Fishman — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:19:22 -0400

Fish on Friday: Venter Claims to Create Artificial Life

Charles Fishman — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:16:52 -0400

Fish-on-Friday: Drug-Making, No-Stop Toll Booths, China Flights & More

Charles Fishman — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:47:40 -0400