Tools for Innovation II: Analogy is the Essence of Innovation
How can analogies inspire innovation?
August 2009
So You Want To Be A Scientist?
Philip A. Schwartzkroin talks about how to be a scientist.
Friday procrastination: link love – brains, berries, and beachwear
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”.
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 and mouths?) Their […]
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.
Tools for Innovation I: Normal psychology and economic recovery
How do goals drive behavior?
How To Support Graduate Education in the Sciences?
How should we fund graduate research?
Friday procrastination: link love – jazz albums, Ivy-league classes, and graffiti
What Rebecca has been reading.
Defining Terrorism
An excerpt from How Terrorism is Wrong.
Elbow – Podictionary Word of the Day
The podictionary word of the week is “elbow”.
How should we respond to terrorist violence?
Richard English, author of Terrorism: How to Respond, lays out the seven key elements in responding to terrorist violence.