Archive for August, 2009

Tools for Innovation II: Analogy is the Essence of Innovation

How can analogies inspire innovation?

So You Want To Be A Scientist?

Philip A. Schwartzkroin talks about how to be a scientist.

Friday Procrastination: Link Love

What Rebecca has been reading.

Directions for the Gardiner: Top Tips

Juliet Evans from OUP UK selects some top gardening tips from John Evelyn’s Directions for the Gardiner and Other Horticultural Advice.

A Journey to Lake Baikal

An excerpt from Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal.

Frolic – Podictionary Word of the Day

The podictionary word of the week is “frolic”.

 
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Why David Sometimes Wins

An excerpt from Why David Sometimes Wins.

Monthly Gleanings, Part I: (August 2009)

By Anatoly Liberman
Squaw. My post on squaw produced some ripples. Three lawyers from Michigan gave me the lashing of their tongue(s). (I am sorry for the parentheses, but I always feel uncomfortable when I have to say something like: “Three people put their foot in their mouth.” Should it be feet [...]

Communication Power

How are communication and power related?

Why the President Needs to Re-frame Health-care Reform:
What’s in it for us?

What we talk about when we talk about health-care.

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