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Nonsense At Work

Don’t waste our time (again):What a waste of time 2009 was!  I mean, it feels as if we spent the year in reverse.  So much for evolution.Talking about evolution, I think it’s time some of our so-called business leaders ...READ»

The Evolution of Marketing Agencies

How firms need to think more like business managersREAD»

EVOLUTION   |  Comment

Psychology of Technology: The Evolution of Connectivity

Have you ever thought about how far we’ve come in our ability to connect with others and how far we’ll go? I’ve been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help us better understand where we are today and, more importantly, where we may be going in the future. Consider the evolution of connectivity. We officially became homo sapiens approximately 200,000 years ago. With the emergence of sophisticated language, we were able to communicate with each other face to face in a way that allowed for the emergence of civilization as we now know it. Of course, this connection was limited to, well, shouting distance, but it was a start. READ»

Branding the Olympics: How Will 2016 Look?

An examination of how Olympic logos evolved during the period between a city's initial bid for the Summer or Winter games and the final version the public got to see.READ»

AMAZON   |  Comment

Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple

By introducing the Kindle, Jeff Bezos is emulating Steve Jobs -- and taking him on.READ»

Evolution has some lessons for Product Design

The first in a series of entries on the role and nature of function in Design. In the world of product development, it strikes me that the link between function and form is often broken.READ»

The Six Most Fascinating Things on the Web This Week

Robot Makes Its Own Scientific Discovery Scientists at the U.K.'s Aberystwyth University gave a laboratory robot named Adam a database about yeast biology, articulated arms, and artificial intelligence, and it came back to them ...READ»

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Nonsense At Work

No time to evolve:This month, two hundred years ago, Charles Darwin was born.  Fifty years later he published a theory that caused quite a stir.  In this country, that theory continues to cause a stir.I don’t care whether people ...READ»

DARWIN   |  Comment

Nonsense At Work

No time to evolve:This month, two hundred years ago, Charles Darwin was born.  Fifty years later he published a theory that caused quite a stir.  In this country, that theory continues to cause a stir.I don’t care whether people ...READ»

Science Wins, Creationism Given The Boot in Texas Schools

The "science versus creationism" debate has been using up much of the energy and time of legislators and educators, but in Texas at least the arguments have come to a close. A series of meetings to revise the curriculum have just ...READ»