Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence--In Space Around a black hole 12 billion light years away, there's an almost unimaginable vapor cloud of water--enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over.
Updated Fri Sep 16, 2011
Little Noticed Election Landmarks: Women In Charge (& Not) Last Tuesday, New Hampshire voters elected 13 women to the state Senate, out of a total of 24 seats -- the first time women have been the majority in any U.S. state legislative body. Flagged by Fast Company alum Dan Pink, with an NPR interview.
Posted Mon Nov 10, 2008
Fish on Friday: Two Dramatic Statistics Bracket Today’s Sweet & Sour Economy Recent news from Whole Foods and IBM seem to capture -- in very personal ways -- both how deeply serious the short term pain in this economy is going to be, and how amazingly regenerative the economy is likely to be.
Posted Fri Nov 7, 2008
The Poverty Problem: Pinpricks of Insight From Rimini, Italy Sometimes there seems to be a world of significance packed into a single moment, or a single sentence. At Pio Manzu’s four-day conference about global poverty, the speakers’ roster is packed with smart, worldly people, and there were a half-dozen moments that caught my attention.
Posted Wed Oct 29, 2008
The Poverty Problem: Field Notes From a Global Summit in Rimini, Italy Rimini, Italy is the site each fall of a conference that is a kind of Clinton Global Initiative for Europe, without Bill Clinton -- a meeting that tackles a single urgent topic over four days. This year’s topic is "le ragioni de penia," the reasons for poverty.
Posted Tue Oct 28, 2008
How Toyota is Squeezing Innovation Out of Hard Times Sales are down sharply and factories are idle, but Toyota's workers are still working—looking for ways to solve problems they don't have time to solve when they are making one car every 27 seconds in normal times.
Posted Thu Oct 16, 2008
