Topic: Prince Charles

Well Worth It?

Buckingham Palace released their annual report estimating that the royal family costs each person in Britain 60p per year. An expense debated by the British people every year. The annual justification is that the royal family ...READ»

60 Seconds With Caroll Spinney

The man in the giant canary suit on Sesame Street talks about staying fresh, fighting with Elmo, and making football players cry.READ»

iFive: BP Sits Out Arctic Oil, Facebook Valuation, Royal Solar Power, Prius Gets a Vroom, Synthetic Corneas Start With a See

World, meet innovation. Innovation, this is world.READ»

Buckingham Palace Worst of London's "Dirty Dozen" Energy-Wasting Buildings

Britain's Prince Charles may be a climate change champion, but his mother's house is an environmental nightmare according to a team of surveyors from renewable energy firm Navitron. Buckingham Palace came in dead last in the ...READ»

Using Effective Hand Gestures In Public Speaking

Your hand gestures and your body language help enable an audience to better understand your meaning.READ»

Mother Gives Birth in Honda, then Names Newborn After Car.

It’s not the first time that someone has given birth in a vehicle, and it’s surely not the last, but we doubt we can find another case where a baby has been named for their mobile birthplace.READ»

Appy New Year! 10 iResolutions for Homies

What is it about the first day back from an extended break? Well, I say break, but it's very hard to switch off completely when one's office rig, that big, fat, one-eyed toad that passes for the nerve center of one's operation, is ...READ»

Jean Nouvel Gets the Nod for 2010 Serpentine Pavilion

Jean Nouvel, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2008, is to design this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London. For the past decade, the gallery, situated in Hyde Park, has been home to some of the most innovative pop-up structures ...READ»

Leading Through SARS

First came the rumor: A killer virus was sweeping through Hong Kong. Panic soon followed. Marjorie Yang, CEO of textiles conglomerate the Esquel Group, faced her toughest test: to manage a global organization from ground zero of SARS.READ»

Hollywood's Rogue Mogul: How Terminator Director McG Is Blowing Up the Movie Business

How McG (yes, that's his name -- he directed the new Terminator movie) evolved from bubblegum auteur into a tinseltown killing machine.READ»

• McG's $2 Billion Machine
• The Terminator Economy

Aveda And The Yawanawa: CSR Chief To Chief

"Aveda and the Yawanawa people have been working together for 17 years. Although there have been challenges in communicating and understanding each other--with one being a big company and the other a grassroots community deep in the ...READ»

The Wizard, King, and Hobbit of Business

The history of IBM unfolds into an epic trilogy about its three CEOs--the determined father, reluctant son, and enterprising stranger.READ»

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»