Direct democracy, kind of
We The People is Live!Welcome to We the People on WhiteHouse.gov. This tool provides you with a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range…
Good reads–Imagine by Jonah Lehrer
‘Imagine’ is a light treatment on the creative process. Anyone familiar with Lehrer’s previous work or that of other pop science writers will feel right at home with this book….
Do-it-yourself education
We think of homeschoolers as evangelicals or off-the-gridders who spend a lot of time at kitchen tables in the countryside. And it’s true that most homeschooling parents do so for…
Wikipedia Going Dark to Protest SOPA
Wikipedia will go offline Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA, according to Co-Founder Jimmy Wales. Wales made the announcement via a series of tweets.“This is going to…
Utopia unfurled
From the peaks of imagination at Yacht Island Design: Visions of the future are often constrained by familiarity with the present or reflection on the past. Project Utopia, a collaboration…
From Google to googolplex
“Right now the US visa immigration system does not allow for entrepreneurs [from overseas] to come here and test out their ideas and create the new jobs and create the…
Good reads–The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
`The Righteous Mind’ presents an imaginative theory on the origins of human morality and the source of discord in the realm of moral systems such as politics and religion. It…
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Sustainable development and the tragedy of commons
Stockholm whiteboard seminars: Nobel Prize-winner Elinor Ostrom explains how people can use natural resources in a sustainable way based on the diversity that exists in the world. Succinct brilliance.
The dangers of storytelling
One interesting thing about cognitive biases – they’re the subject of so many books these days. There’s the Nudge book, the Sway book, the Blink book, like the one-title book,…
Two questions from the early 20th century
From Max Weber’s essay, Parliament and Government in Germany under a New Political Order, published as a series of articles in the ‘Frankfurter Zeitung’ in 1917 as a critique of…
The paradoxes of politics
The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is…
In praise of misers
Here’s what I like about Ebenezer Scrooge: His meager lodgings were dark because darkness is cheap, and barely heated because coal is not free. His dinner was gruel, which he…
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Robert Jarvik, American scientist, researcher and entrepreneur known for his role in developing the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.
Thirty people who are finding new frontiers
These are the people who arent waiting to reinvent the world. FORBES, leaning on the wisdom of its readers and the greatest minds in business, presents the 30 disrupters under…
Because there was no corruption in Soviet Russia
(Associated Press) Protesters wave a Red flag, as simbol of revolution, as they march during a mass rally to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia’s parliamentary elections in Moscow,…
Honduras’ Gultch here we come!
(Economist) Now, for the first time, libertarians have a real chance to implement their ideas. In addition to a big special development region, the Honduran government intends to approve two…
Currents in currency
Away with the past: (Death to Pennies) The story of the penny starts in the first US Mint founded in 1792 which produced these one-cent pieces along with other coins…
Just what kind of students does the modern education system produce?
(Washington Post) A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took…