For those of you who will continue in the sciences or research, the easy part will be to write papers for your peers. The harder part ishow you’ll explain “inconvenient truths” to people who may not want to hear them. How will you rouse an audience to action? Finally,why do public...
Compare that action to that of Cook’s peers in Silicon Valley and indeed throughout the tech industry (most use Foxconn’s factories, too): Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman publicly fretted any action might raise HP’s costs. The rest of the industry said nothing, and if they’ve done an...
Thus some argue that intelligence evolved for social purposes, which would explain why we have to build in such safeguards to get to truth, like peer review systems, having a trial by a jury of our peers, and being innocent until proven guilty. So in the same way that it is argued that...
This record was tapping more into like what connects us all as people. I want to become closer to what connects us as humans. I talk about very human things in a very human way that made me really proud of what this is. “Please don’t bother me …” The “Cody” is short for ...
While we’ll hear from investors andLee Bollinger,president of Columbia University, the heart of the summit are the breakout sessions. In these sessions you and your peers can discuss and share best practices with Lean educators from around the world. We’ll then share the results of the brea...
Young men today often feel as if their needs are secondary to those of their female peers. Society tends to speak about the well-being of men and boys as a means to an end. There’s a lot of hand-wringing about how a decline in the number of marriageable men makes it harder for ...
As a member of Soundgarden, Kim Thayil's heavy, aggressive riffing helped to lead the grunge revolution of the '90s, influencing many (including some of the band's Seattle-based peers). 32. Ace Frehley Michael Loccisano, Getty Images ...
However, by 1863 he was not well regarded by some of his peers and one very important superior, Major General Halleck, who he had run afoul of in California. “While on Garrison duty in California in the 1850s, he cultivated “bad habits and excesses”- too much liquor, and too many...
The fest opens on the 27th with skateboarding filmmaker Stacy Peralta’s latest, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, which documents his own involvement with California board culture along with peers like Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen. Following that will be Ya’Ke Smith’s complex drama about the ...
If that truth is too strong to ignore, then they may hide it from sight and attempt to forget. If they do not, they will quickly become the object of scorn and derision from their peers, resulting in a quick trip to unemployment as one of the "kooks" or "nut cases". Such has been...