Topic: U.S.S.R.

The Siberian Energy Rush

Global warming is opening up the Arctic Circle, and Russia would like to control its bounty of natural resources. An exclusive dispatch from the Yamal Peninsula, where reindeer give way to railroads and gas rigs every day.READ»

• Slideshow: How the Siberian Energy Rush Is Affecting the Nenets Tribe

AOL and Google Gobbling Israeli Startups

U.S. and European tech firms have been snapping up startups in Israel for the last few months. Here's why they're hot. READ»

• The Top 10 Websites You Never Heard Of
• Facebook Adds Face Detection to Photos; Recognition Next?
• Israel and Palestine Leveraging Network Effect in Latest Peace Talks

Dead Zone Deconfusinator: Oil Not the Only Problem in Gulf of Mexico, NASA Study Shows

NASA's revealed a study detailing the location and extent of the world's oceanic dead zones--regions where oxygen depletion stifles life. It looks like they're growing. First up: What is a dead zone (apart from a creepy movie starring ...READ»

WikiLeaks Publishes 92,000 Military Documents, Points to Pakistan as Ally of Afghan Insurgents

WikiLeaks published over 90,000 mostly-classified military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. Pakistan's ties to the Taliban are revealed in detail, as are civilian deaths, friendly fire deaths, and scenes from a more ugly and complex war than is being reported.READ»

The Best Olympics Have the Ugliest Mascots - London 2012 Is Going to Be Awesome

Fear not, earthlings. The uglier the mascot, the more successful the games. Trust us on this one.READ»

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

I am an active supporter of Human Rights Watch, an independent organization of individuals who are intently working to defend and protect human rights around the world. HRW directs global attention to human rights violations, ...READ»

Moon Men to Obama: Your NASA Plans Suck Asteroids

Not everyone's pleased with NASA's future, as defined by the Obama-led new fiscal plans for the space agency...and three particularly significant chaps would just assume tell him to shove it up Uranus. They're names are Armstrong, ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: It's Pretty Crowded Up in Space

The amount of satellites in space junk that each country has sent to space tells you lots about the countries themselves.READ»

The Moral Bankruptcy of Modern Economic Globalization

Globalization is thought the next step forward march in the linear dance trajectory insofar as human economic evolution. Beginning with the inception of humanity in and of itself, cave men, human tribalism, city states, nation states and finally globalization and its associated global liberal economic markets as Adam Smith envisaged. Everything is “for sale” in the 21st century from human worth to international justice.READ»

Helsinki Named World Design Capital for 2012

The Finnish capital that's become a global center of furniture, fashion and technology was plucked from a list of 46 cities vying for the distinction. Here's our design primer.READ»

L-3's 73-Ton Hovercraft Recalls 3 Other Monster Military Machines

L-3 Communications (one of our Fast Company 50 this year) has just announced it's partnering with Textron to bid for a big future military vehicle contract. By big, we mean biiig: a 73-ton hovercraft that'll ferry troops and hardware ...READ»

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The Devil’s Paint Brush within Organizational Leadership

The Philosophy of LeaderShaping, the off-spring of the “Six Levels of Leadership,” depends heavily on “Communications” and “Intelligence” to be successful. When one or both of these elements becomes compromised, the result ...READ»

Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple

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

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The Seven Coolest Things Online This Week

Super-strong artificial muscles and telephony iPods? The future looks brighter--especially if you listen to President Obama's plans, as he laid them out for Jay Leno on Thursday. And with Gmail's new "Undo" feature, even ...READ»

China Plans Its Own Space Station, Starting Next Year

That China has plans for a space station is not much of a surprise--the nation's space tech has been steadily advancing since its first satellite Dong Fang Hong 1 launched in 1970. But the fact that it's planning to launch the first ...READ»

Genrich Altshuller - The Father of TRIZ

TRIZ (pronounced “trees”) is the (Russian) acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving – a methodology for systematic innovation. It was developed in the former Soviet Union beginning in the 1940s by Genrich ...READ»

Live from E3: Games with the longest lines...

In my last post, I mentioned how scaled back the show was and how much smaller the crowd was making it easier to play the games on display. But as always, it's hard to get a chance to play the most anticipated games. Here's a small ...READ»

Er, Bud-Wise?

One month ago, I wrote an entry on InBev's unsolicited takeover of Anheuser-Busch. At the time, I worried about Anheuser-Busch's attempt to use patriotism in its favor to ward off a potential buyout and suggested that by ...READ»

Is Our View of "Work" Impacted by 'Mental Maps' Built During the Ages of 11 - 13?

In coming across a very interesting HBR Article from Tamara Erickson, "Are There Gender Differences Within Gen X?", I began to consider how not only the different generations, but also different genders within the ...READ»

Seven Strategies for Successful Alliances

Whether striking a new business partnership or building a coalition government, you can benefit from these tricks of the trade. Two veteran negotiators share their strategies for forging and maintaining successful long-term relationships.READ»

Battle Plan

Former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Ralph Peters outlines nine strategies for understanding, fighting, and defeating the new enemy. Rule #1: Culture is king.READ»

How the President Leads

Princeton professor Fred I. Greenstein has identified six qualities that play a big part in presidential job performance. Here's how leaders outside the political sphere can follow a chief-executive example.READ»

Richard Nixon

Simultaneously his own harshest critic and biggest fan, Richard Nixon fulfilled his biggest dream and worst nightmare when he returned to politics in the late 1960s.READ»

Nightmare in Boomtown

Mark Seidenfeld was just another American cashing in on the post-Soviet boom. Then one bad deal in Kazakhstan sent his life into a spiral of extortion, siberian prison, and frontier justice. A cautionary tale.READ»