Colleges are beaches. People are walking and picking up degrees like seashells. As we hand out more and more degrees, each degree becomes less and less valuable. I’m amazed no one has pointed this out.
The viral protest meme known as "Occupy Wall Street" is still going strong, and according to some provocative research to be published in PLoS One, it may never have reason to run out of steam. Why? Because "the 1%"--#OWS-speak for the tiny subgroup of wealthy interests that exerts outsize influence over "the 99%" comprising the rest of us--may be a mathematically inevitable consequence of the way networks self-organize.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Beijing to fund a series of revolutionary agricultural and biotech initiatives. China might be using Gates to further its economic imperialism. But maybe that's not such a bad thing.
A recent visit to a free hotel buffet got me thinking about the broadly subsidized costs of such things. As the debt-ceiling dialogue revealed, the ethos of wanting things cheap or free has saturated our political culture. Cheaper government now, many clearly think, won't entail costs later. But isn't everyone--including me--indirectly paying?
When FDR said: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," he was right. PTSD is the fear following an intial trauma -- that caused you to feel vulnerable -- of retraumatization, that you're afraid will finish the job and destroy you.
This week the U.S. Department of Labor released their annual time-use survey for 2010. Based on annual research that has been conducted over many years, it provides a rich repository of information on how American's spend their time. This infographic examines these latest government figures further.
Sure, games are fun, and group buying is a hot trend, but there’s more to them. What exactly creates the strong attraction for customers? Here are five ways to get the attention your product or service deserves.
