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Links to topics I find interestingInnovation:An interview with David Kester, Chief Executive, Design Council. To foster a culture of innovation, managers must look outward to identify consumers' problems and spark ideas for solving those problems. They must also ease employees' fear of change. Society: Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005 Steven Pinker, one of the world's most exciting public thinkers, presents a radical re-assessment of human progress. Listen to the fulll audio at www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/the-better-angels-of-our-nature Climate change: Yeah, oil companies profiting from the status quo is such a ridiculous idea. Much more credible to realize that global warming is a vast conspiracy of thousands upon thousands of scientists, administrators, advocates and teachers. Other Islamophobes have been popularizing the claim that “not all Muslims are terrorists, but (nearly) all terrorists are Muslims.” Despite this idea becoming axiomatic in some circles, it is quite simply not factual. |
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