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I wonder how much energy people waste trying not to be who they are? It is true that everyone has some things about themselves that it would...

Peter Thie l made a lot of money as an entrepreneur and investor. Now he has given away money to 20 kids under 20 to help fund heir entrepr...

"Our only real option is wild optimism." I may get t-shirts printed up. Or bumper stickers. Just this evening, it occurred to m...

Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations And People Always Die, And Life Gets Faster | Conversation | Edge Geoffrey West shares some fascinat...

The deficit is pretty simple. The federal government spends more than it collects in taxes. It's worth asking why Americans feel entit...

I can't tell you for sure which one is Fitz and which one is the Tantrum. I do know that she's beautiful and this song has a rollick...

As it turns out, I was less than enraptured by 21 May 2011. It might just be that this becomes the day when enraptured comes to mean shock a...

The 1990s were a good time for economics and business in America.  During  Clinton's administration , median incomes rose $6,000, more ...

This week, Senator Schumer asked five oil executive CEOs whether they thought that any other budget item that could be cut from the federal ...

This week, alpha males squared off against each other: Oil company CEOs and US Senators. Given that nothing confers respect like money, it w...

As of 2000, a Californian who wanted to sell home loans could get a license without taking a single class. By contrast, to become a professi...

Austin is a curious place. It is not just Texas's capital but is home to University of Texas, a campus with 50,000 students. Another 50,...

Maybe next month we need a May skeptics' day. April Fools' Day credible, May Skeptics' Day incredible . Like bliss on a ritz. H...

I predict that next, Trump will investigate the curious fact that Hawaii supposedly joined the union in 1959, just two years before Obama wa...

I got introduced to systems thinking by the management guru W. Edwards Deming. He made the point that when assessing a team made up of three...

In 1912, an assassin rose through the crowd to shoot Teddy Roosevelt. The right desperately hopes that a century later, the assassin’s work ...