Arianna Huffington, Cirque du Soleil, and Francis Ford Coppola all specialize in high-wire acts of different sorts. One more thing they now have in common: All of them appeared at the first-ever C2-MTL conference in Montreal last week, a high-wire act of its own.
After six years of annually spotlighting Hollywood's favorite unproduced screenplays, The Black List is expanding as a business brand and screenwriter community.
"All of a sudden, biotechnology is not just what's medically necessary, but it's what can inspire us," says Reshma Shetty, cofounder of Boston-based startup Ginkgo BioWorks. And we must evolve how we view the science's purpose and participants.
From Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" to The Onion to Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report," fake news has become as much a part of the national dialogue as the real news it parodies. Why? The Onion's Baratunde Thurston shared his thoughts with the audience at Fast Company's recent Most Creative People in Business 2011 event.
"There are sub-cultures within the culture," said Kimberly Davis at Fast Company's recent Most Creative People in Business event. "[That's] where you can actually have pockets of innovation."
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