Topic: Princeton University

What Ideas Are You Fighting For?

Back in the early 1980s, when I was a student at Princeton University, one of my heroes was Pete Carril, the legendary (and now Hall of Fame) basketball coach. During his 29-year tenure, Carril’s Princeton Tigers regularly squared ...READ MORE›

The End of the Oil Age

Kenneth Deffeyes is professor emeritus of geosciences at Princeton University. The author of Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage offered his insights on the upcoming and ongoing oil crisis and some possible ways to ...READ MORE›

Timothy Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss, author of the #1 NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek explains how you can automate and outsource the process of becoming prosperous, then spend the rest of your time enjoying the things you love to do. Timothy ...READ MORE›

MoMA Hosts Creative Lock-In to Save New York's Waterfronts

The museum is sponsoring a workshop aiming for new solutions for sheltering the city's threatened waterfront.READ MORE›

Should Colleges Subsidize Print News, Or Switch to Kindle?

This week Wesleyan University announced that an anonymous donor had given the school $20,000 to subsidize paper New York Times subscriptions for students for the next two years. One hundred and fifty miles away at Princeton ...READ MORE›

Cybercises

Check out the Typing Injury FAQ, an unvarnished tutorial and cautionary tale for those who think RSI will never hit them.READ MORE›

Shawn Baldwin from CMG with Dr. Richard Sandor and Robert Hormats

Shawn Baldwin from CMG in Chicago at the 2009 Milken Global Conference READ MORE›

Test Driving RandomDorm: Collegiate, Dude-Heavy Version of ChatRoulette

As the spotlight beams brightly on ChatRoulette and its attendant lumps, humps, and hairy backs, there is another, more wholesome, site that's just debuted. It promises all the thrill of videochatting with strangers with the ...READ MORE›

Princeton Computer Scientists Create Innovative Crowdsourcing Tool, Inspired by Kittens

How do you decide the cutest cat in the world? That question served as the unlikely inspiration for Princeton sociology professor Matthew Salganik, who, when doing research on crowdsourcing, stumbled across Kitten Wars, a ...READ MORE›

Fast Talk: The Mentor's Mentors

We asked top leaders about their mentors. What did they learn? What lessons do they still apply? What do they pass on to mentees of their own?READ MORE›

Seven Questions with the 4-Hour Workweek Evangelist

We've all heard it's better to work smarter, not harder. According to author Timothy Ferriss, the real secret is figuring out how to barely work at all.READ MORE›

New Leaders, New Agenda

These six leaders stepped into their top jobs at a time of enormous challenge. Here's what each of them has to say about their approach to passing today's tough test and setting the agenda for the future.READ MORE›

WorkFast.TV: Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek

This week WorkFast.TV comes a day early to accommodate July 4, Independence Day. The guest today, Timothy Ferriss, is a great advocate of getting out of the office and getting on with life. To watch the show live and join the ...READ MORE›

The Next Fast Thing

How Roberts optimizes its truck schedules.READ MORE›

A Test Prep Track That Serves You Well by Zeke Lee

A common trend to get ahead in the race to accomplish a superior GMAT score has seen GMAT aspirants spend thousands of dollars on books and resorting to expensive test prep sources like Kaplan and Princeton. But why expend on books ...READ MORE›

Face Time With Jeff Bezos

The gregarious founder of the pathbreaking e-commerce company holds forth on cracking eggs, Mike Meyers, and other nonvirtual wonders of the world.READ MORE›

Crib Sheet: George T. Whitesides, Top Dog (in Space) at Virgin Galactic

Don't call him Laika, but George T. Whitesides is a dawg for space. He's just hopped off Planet NASA, where he was Chief of Staff to agency Great Dane Charlie Bolden, and is now--Mush!--Lead Husky at Virgin Galactic [Editor's note: ...READ MORE›

How do we really make decisions?

Most people, particularly those in scientific and professional fields, as well as a majority of the population, would like to believe that we make good decisions in our personal and professional lives based on deliberative, logical thinking. It appears that nothing can be further from the truth.READ MORE›

At Work, Feeling Good Does Matter

There is a clear connection between happiness and productivity. And during difficult economic times, with the pressures created by declining business revenue, layoffs and downsizing, this issue has become even more important.READ MORE›

How do we really make decisions?

Most people, particularly those in scientific and professional fields, as well as a majority of the population, would like to believe that we make good decisions in our personal and professional lives based on deliberative, logical thinking. It appears that nothing can be further from the truth.READ MORE›

Summertime, and the Reading Is Easy

Put aside your workaday reading material and pick up something that stretches your mind, grips your imagination, or backfills the gaps in your literary repertoire. We have some wise suggestions for your summer book list.READ MORE›

DOE's $1 Billion Clean Coal Project Mutates Once Again

The FutureGen clean coal project just won't die. The nearly decade-old project has been killed, reborn, and reshaped so many times that we almost forgot it was still around. But it is--albeit in a less ambitious form.READ MORE›

Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart

I am involved with the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic school for girls located on a 55-acre campus in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1963, the Stuart Country Day School now educates over 500 ...READ MORE›

DOE's Next Energy Innovation Hub: Energy-Efficient Buildings at Penn State

The DOE's latest Energy Innovation Hub will be led by Penn State.READ MORE›

What BlackBerry Addiction says About Obama's Brain

Giving up the CrackBerry will make the president-elect more productive, but neuroscientist Sam Wang says that he shouldn’t give it up completely. Here’s why…READ MORE›

• How Obama Won it With the Web
• How to Build a Brand Like Obama
• The Brand Called Obama