SLRA's Refugee Rolling - Playing For Change
09.19.2012
Mark Johnson > View profileSierra Leone's Refugee All Stars met at a refugee camp and embody the true power of music to help us persevere as a human race. Enjoy the performance of "Refugee Rolling" and join the movement. > View article
Curiosity's Successful, Glorious Triumph on Mars
08.23.2012
Dr. Peter Diamandis > View profileIt's rare that humanity lands on another planet. Sunday as a guest of the JPL director, Charles Elachi, along with a long list of space luminaries such as Jeff Bezos, Dennis Tito, Steve Jurvetson, George Whitesides, Buzz Aldrin, and hundreds more, I made my pilgrimage to Pasadena to be present for what the media called "seven-minutes of terror" - the final descent of JPL's Curiosity lander through the thin Martian atmosphere - slowing from 13,000 miles per hour to a 1 mph while executing a long list of complicated maneuvers. (Huffington Post) > View article
Health care's new maverick
08.23.2012
Geoff Colvin > View profileWhat's the future of American health care? Dr. Ralph de la Torre, CEO of Steward Health Care System, may represent the answer. Steward, owned by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, is a growing Massachusetts-based group of community hospitals, and industry analysts say de la Torre is one of the most dynamic and influential executives in the business. He's consolidating hospitals, finding efficiencies, investing big in infotech, and creating a new model that he says won't change much regardless of how Obamacare's future plays out. De la Torre, 46, is the son of Cuban immigrants and became the chief of cardiac surgery at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at age 38, then gave up practicing medicine to become a CEO. He talked recently with Fortune's Geoff Colvin about why health care reform isn't about public health, how health care is like the auto industry, why costs must continue to rise, and much else. (Fortune) > View article
Want To Make A Creative City? Build Out, Not Up
08.01.2012
Richard Florida > View profileUrban density spurs innovation. But it turns out that some kinds of density are better than others. Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited, explains how going vertical can mute creativity, and spreading out can enhance it. (NPR) > View article
All Shook Up: 11 Cheers for Stress
08.01.2012
Todd Buchholz > View profileIn 2004 leaders in Monza, Italy decided that goldfish were living in too frantic a world. Those poor fish swimming in round bowls keep rushing past each other. "A fish kept in a bowl has a distorted view of reality...and suffers because of this," said a high official. So the City Council passed a law requiring all goldfish to be placed in rectangular tanks. It would cut down their stress and give them a slower, less competitive frame of reference. This from Monza, a city best known for hosting the Formula 1 Grand Prix race, where Ferraris whip past McLarens at 200 miles per hour! (Huffington Post) > View article
Frank Bruni: Political Fortunetelling
08.01.2012
Frank Bruni > View profileTALK about putting the cart ahead of the donkey. Last week Public Policy Polling actually sized up voters’ feelings about possible Democratic candidates for... the 2016 presidential race. That’s right: 2016. The 2012 contest still has two conventions, one vice-presidential selection, four debates and a river delta’s worth of mudslinging to go, and already the soothsayers are moving on. Either we Americans are an admirably future-oriented people, or we’re really, really bored. (New York Times) > View article
Will Technology Help or Hinder the Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots?
08.01.2012
Ray Kurzweil > View profileWill Technology Help or Hinder the Gap Between the Haves and Haves Nots? Interview with Ray Kurzweil (PBS) > View article
Your employees as a terrific marketing asset
08.01.2012
David Meerman Scott > View profileI really enjoy doing business with companies whose employees are friendly and who treat me with respect. Isn't it different than those companies whose people who go through the motions, treating you like you're intruding on their life, counting the hours till quitting time? (Web Ink Now) > View article
At the Olympics, Women's time to Shine
07.23.2012
Frank Bruni > View profileHER squeaky voice, elfin mien and the inevitable “Saturday Night Live” caricature of both ended up stealing some attention from what she’d pulled off, but make no mistake: Kerri Strug was heroic. Remember those Olympics? Atlanta in 1996? With the United States women’s gymnastics team closing in on a hard-fought gold medal, Strug was told that she needed to vault one last time, even though the legacy of the vault she’d just bungled was a limp and serious pain in her left leg. (New York Times) > View article
A Secret Committee Will Not Stop Us
07.20.2012
Zach Wahls > View profileThis week, the Boy Scouts of America made a huge national stir by affirming its anti-LGBT policy. That is to say, they made a huge national stir by doing nothing new. The only "new" thing about their announcement was the fact that they reached this "decision" by appointing a secret, 11-member subcommittee that "studied" this policy for "two years." This committee, that had a "variety of beliefs" on this policy, somehow managed to reach a unanimous decision. Twice. According to conflicting reports from the BSA, they first presented their conclusion back in February of this year. Then they presented it (again?) on Tuesday. (Advocate) > View article
Swimming with Sharks
07.19.2012
Daymond John > View profileThe ‘Godfather of Urban Fashion’ and ‘Shark Tank’ TV star Daymond John takes a crack at the DRTV business. Besides creating FUBU, my greatest professional accomplishment has to be making the initial transition from that success and creating more brands,” says Daymond John, New York-based founder of urban fashion brand FUBU, star of the ABC television series “Shark Tank” and owner of Daymond John’s Shark Branding. “I refused to be a one-hit wonder. I wanted to set a career and a lifestyle for myself, and continue to succeed.” Succeed, he has. Aside from FUBU (which has amassed more than $6 billion in global sales)and Daymond John’s Shark Branding, he has a hand in the Coogi, Heatherette and DrunknMunky clothing brands, and is author of two books including 2007's, “Display of Power: How FUBU Changed a World of Fashion, Branding and Lifestyle.” (Response Magazine) > View article
Sun, ‘Shades’ and tablets
07.18.2012
Richard Roeper > View profileIt’s noon, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. My iPhone tells me it’s 94 degrees as I sit in the sun and continue to read. (Chicago Sun-Times) > View article
An X PRIZE for Jobs: Can We Radically Reinvent How We Create, Finance and Find Jobs in America?
07.17.2012
Dr. Peter Diamandis > View profileWe are living in extraordinary times, where technology is allowing small teams of individuals to accomplish what were once only the province of governments. Empowered by smart phones, the internet, artificial intelligence, ubiquitous networks, cloud computing, robotics and digital manufacturing, small teams are building platforms and companies that are touching the lives of billions, and solving problems once solely the domain of the public sector. (Huffington Post) > View article
Peter Diamandis launched the X Prize, now he plans to mine asteroids
07.17.2012
Dr. Peter Diamandis > View profilePeter Diamandis has a perspective too expansive for a single planet. Decades of Nasa timidity convinced him the only way to get off it was to build a private space industry. His breakthrough idea was to offer big prizes for solving epic challenges. He began with the $10 million (£6.5m) Ansari X Prize, which resulted in the first repeatable private flight to the edge of space. Later X Prizes tackled issues such as fuel efficiency and health care costs, drawing in bright, idealistic people to solve earthly problems. (Wired) > View article
Youth, liberals lead way on marijuana legalization in Western states
07.17.2012
Zach Wahls > View profileA number of marijuana related ballot questions supported by liberals and young voters are quietly making waves in the American West. Early Friday evening, the Oregon Secretary of State announced that after gaining enough signatures Initiative Petition 9 will be on the November ballot as Measure 80, also known as The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act (OCTA). The Act, which can be found here in its entirety, would regulate cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol, allowing the purchase of marijuana in state-licensed stores by those over the age of 21. (MSNBC) > View article
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