Published in 2005, Joel Garreau’s Radical Evolution offers multiple perspectives on the future of human kind. Interviewing world-class thinkers, engineers, and philosophers, the author examines not only our decisions, but our decision making process—for the heart of Garreau’s thesis maintains that human nature changes. We’ve all
Having been briefly introduced to Project Citizen at the National Academy, I decided to try it out this year. It’s an ideal, outcome-based activity as much about the journey as the finish. And the great thing about the finish is that it’s really just the beginning, for students
I saw the most frightening childrens’ movie this weekend, Pixar’s “Wall-E [http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/wall-e/].” The child in the row behind me squealed with delight over every adorable character. She punctuated each screen debut with the character’s name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E#Cast]. She
As I returned to my too real world, I clicked through my Tivo playlist over breakfast this morning and found Karl Iagnemma [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3313/04.html] on an episode of NOVA Science Now. One of the country’s top scientific inventors and an award