by Peter Guber: What’s the contagious disease you want infecting your organization? …More
The Present And Future Are Better Than You Think
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Tesla Model S Wows Them Over At Consumer Reports
17 May 2013
by Nino Marchetti: Tesla Motors is riding a bit of a high mark on a wave lately, recently having very favorable first quarter financial results. …More
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Entrepreneurship Is Fueling Global Change
12 May 2013
by admin: Entrepreneurship is now fueling the world’s quests to end epidemics, resolve inequities and poverty, increase education and care for our natural resources. …More
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Kickstarter Campaign To Create Glowing Plant Goes Viral – Singularity Labs FTW!
28 Apr 2013
By: Peter Murray: In what they call the “first step in creating sustainable natural lighting,” a group of innovators coming out of Singularity University have launched a Kickstarter campaign to create glowing plants. …More
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Looking At Female Role Models May Make Women Better Leaders, Says Study
21 Apr 2013
by The Huffington Post: Could simply looking at a photograph of Hillary Clinton while you’re giving a speech make you a better public speaker? A new study on female leadership says yes. …More
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Solar Energy Lights For Developing World Also Empowers Women
18 Apr 2013
by Rocky Mountain Institute : More than 1.3 billion people around the world live without electricity. …More
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14 Apr 2013
by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: WHEN Tony Wagner, the Harvard education specialist, describes his job today, he says he’s “a translator between two hostile tribes” — the education world and the business world, …More
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Freed From Its Cage, the Gentler Robot
9 Apr 2013
by Anne Eisenberg: FACTORY robots are usually caged off from humans on the assembly line lest the machines’ powerful steel arms deliver an accidental, bone-crunching right hook. …More
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Jason Silva’s The Mirroring Mind
27 Mar 2013
Created by Jason Silva in collaboration with CITIZEN. This video is a non-commercial work created to inspire, …More
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There’s No Such Thing As Career Planning
23 Mar 2013
by Peter Guber: Do you have a 5 year career plan? If so, there’s one thing you can plan on – very little will go as planned.
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10 Celebrities Leading The Wellness Revolution
13 Mar 2013
By Carolyn Gregoire: In the past decade, yoga studios and juice cleanse services have become as ubiquitous in Hollywood as red carpets and Christian Louboutins. As one A-list celebrity after the other is jumping on the health and wellness bandwagon, …More
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The Conscious Lifestyle: How a Leader Should View Power
10 Mar 2013
Deepak Chopra MD: Power is so tempting and so controversial, connected at its worst with corruption and runaway ego, that I’d like to state some general principles first as they pertain to a conscious leader.
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Conscious Evolution and the Integration of Science and Spirituality
3 Mar 2013
by Barbara Marx Hubbard: We are today living through a crisis that could destroy civilization and our essential life support systems, …More
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Mars or Bust: Dennis Tito Plans to Send Couple on 2018 Mission
28 Feb 2013
By NED POTTER : In 2001 the millionaire Dennis Tito became the first paying space tourist — he bought a flight to the International Space Station from the Russian space agency. …More
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Diamandis: Tricorder X Prize Offers $10 Million To Build Star Trek Inspired Health Scanner
22 Feb 2013
by: Jason Dorrier: It’s hard to imagine a Star Trek away team without their tricorders waving back and forth, scanning for life forms. …More
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How Innovation Could Save the Planet
18 Feb 2013
By Ramez Naam: Ideas may be our greatest natural resource, says a computer scientist and futurist. …More
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The Conscious Lifestyle: A Leader Must Be Aware
11 Feb 2013
by Deepak Chopra MD (official): (In this series of posts we’re discussing the qualities of leadership using the acronym L-E-A-D-E-R-S. The second letter, “A,” stands for awareness.) …More
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FutureMed 2013 Kicks Off At Singularity University With Huge Demand, Enthusiasm
5 Feb 2013
by: Jason Dorrier: FutureMed 2013 has officially arrived. On Monday, Singularity University kicked off day one at their NASA Moffet Field campus, a stone’s throw from Hangar One and the NASA Ames Research Center. …More
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Watson Getting Ready For Healthcare
3 Feb 2013
by ECE Utah: There are numerous opinions and ideas about the flawed state of healthcare, the critical need for change and the future we want. …More
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Social Entrepreneur Says ‘We Don’t Need Facebook for Dogs’
30 Jan 2013
by Devin Thorpe: Nothing summarized the Intersection Event better than Kushal Chakrabarti’s comment halfway through the day. …More
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The Funnel We Need: Follow Customers as They Actually Behave
23 Jan 2013
by Nate Elliott: Poor Elias St. Elmo Lewis. When he first described the sales funnel more than 100 years ago, he was trying to map the path a single customer took to a single purchase. …More
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Deep Under Antarctica, Looking for Signs of Life
18 Jan 2013
By JAMES GORMAN: Three major scientific projects set out this season to seek evidence of life in lakes deep under the Antarctic ice
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Social Entrepreneurship Event At Google HQ Aims to Catalyze Change in Education
16 Jan 2013
Randy Haykin, Founder and Partner at the Gratitude Network, talked with me about his upcoming daylong event on January 19, 2013 at Google Headquarters in Mountainview, California. …More
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Tiny Circuit Makes It Possible To Pull Energy From Thin Air
9 Jan 2013
by Beth Buczynski: Most of us are familiar with Texas Instruments (TI) as the company that made the graphing calculator we used in school. …More
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WINBOT, THE WINDOW-CLEANING ROBOT, COMING NEXT YEAR
22 Dec 2012
by: David J. Hill: It’s no surprise that the first wave of robots that people have welcomed into their homes were charged with the menial task of cleaning. …More
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11 Dec 2012
The Headrush Blog: The fast changing business environment is forcing organizations to continuously evolve and innovate. Cutting costs and lean management are no longer the solution to stay ahead of competition. …More
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On the exponential curve: inside Singularity University
13 May 2013
by DAVID ROWAN Editor of Wired magazine: It’s not an accredited university, and it doesn’t actually teach the singuarity, the supposed superintelligence that will result when man merges with machine, …More
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The Right Stance Can Be Reassuring
8 May 2013
Watch celebrities on the red carpet, or models on a runway, and you’ll undoubtedly see the classic stop-for-the-flashing-cameras stance: …More
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Infect Your Organization To Affect Your Organization
25 Apr 2013
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Orbital Sciences Rocket Antares Successfully Test Launched
21 Apr 2013
by Brock Vergakis: Atlantic, Va. — A company contracted by NASA to deliver supplies to the International Space Station successfully launched a rocket on Sunday in a test of its ability to send a cargo ship aloft. …More
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Why Your Next Phone Will Include Fingerprint, Facial, And Voice Recognition
18 Apr 2013
by: Tarun Wadhwa: In some ways, it’s a marvel that even half of consumers bother to lock their phones. You would think the benefits would be obvious enough: …More
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Breathometer – A Breathlyzer For Your Smartphone
17 Apr 2013
by: David J. Hill: A California-based company wants to take the guesswork out of the rhetorical question, “Did I drink too much to drive?” …More
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Mobile Phones Spawn a Revolution in Entrepreneurship in East Africa
11 Apr 2013
by Len Rosen: This week the people of Kenya are waiting to find out who they have elected to lead them for the next few years. …More
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Tesla Model S Nets World Green Car Award Winner For 2013
8 Apr 2013
by Joel Arellano: The World Car Awards started in 2004. Candidates for the four categories – Design, Performance, Green, and the overall World Car …More
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He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18.
27 Mar 2013
by BRIAN STELTER: One of Yahoo’s newest employees is a 17-year-old high school student in Britain. As of Monday, he is one of its richest, too. …More
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Mixing Freedoms in a 32-Ounce Soda
24 Mar 2013
by ROBERT H. FRANK: On narrow technical grounds, a New York State court recently rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposed curbs on large sodas and other sugary drinks. …More
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Exclusive Interview: Ray Kurzweil Discusses His First Two Months At Google
21 Mar 2013
by: David J. Hill: In another exclusive interview with Singularity Hub, Ray Kurzweil provides an update about his first two months as Director of Engineering at Google. …More
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13 Mar 2013
by Frances Moore LappÃ: “To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.” …More
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9 Mar 2013
Wednesday, 30 May 2012 by Jack Canifield: I have had an enormous amount of success in my life, and I owe it all to two things. …More
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The Makers Of Kinect Look To The Future Of 3D Sensing
4 Mar 2013
The company behind the technology in your Kinect, PrimeSense recently released a video showing how their technology could be used in the not-to-distant future in the style of Corning’s A World Made of Glass. …More
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‘Scary’ collection of brainiacs gather at Google
28 Feb 2013
by Bruce Newman: MOUNTAIN VIEW — At The Intersection, a conference for innovators from Silicon Valley and the greater tech archipelago, the big social issues of our time were met head-on for a day, discussed and, whenever possible, resolved in time for dinner. …More
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27 Feb 2013
Matthieu Ricard’s talk on Happiness at the Action for Happiness event at Conway Hall in London. …More
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21 Feb 2013
Ed and Deb Shapiro: Freedom isn’t something that should be taken for granted. Many people yearn for it, while others don’t realize the how precious it is. …More
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Why The Best “Man” For A Job Is Often A “Woman”
14 Feb 2013
by Peter Guber: In my experience, in the male-dominated entertainment world, women who I have hired, promoted or whose companies I’ve acquired …More
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The Art of Love Relationship Series
7 Feb 2013
Remember the first time you fell in love and felt butterflies in your stomach? Then over time, the love remained but the heat faded. The truth is, deeply committed, everlasting relationships require specific skills. …More
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Peter Diamandis On The Eight Technologies That Are Making The World Better
4 Feb 2013
For entrepreneur and X Prize Foundation creator Peter Diamandis, the world has never been in better shape and that it is going to get even better, …More
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2.5 Million Computers Give Peta/Flops Power To Einstein@Home, Other Projects
30 Jan 2013
By: Jason Dorrier: In early 2013, a distributed computing project called Einstein@Home registered a petaFLOP/s (10^15 floating-point operations per second) of computing power for the first time. …More
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Mars One’s Bas Lansdorp Answers Questions About Proposed Martian Settlement
28 Jan 2013
by: Mike Wall: Mars One wants to land four astronauts on the Red Planet in 2023, and it’s come up with a creative way to fund this ambitious undertaking. …More
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The Beautiful and Efficient Anatomy of Pregnancy
18 Jan 2013
by Alexander Tsiaras: I have spent most of the last decade focusing on the marvels of developmental biology — “the study of how multicellular organisms develop from immature forms into an adult.” …More
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15 Jan 2013
by Andrea Kates: Four steps for starting the new year with a fresh outlook on business. …More
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How Large Companies Can Innovate
8 Jan 2013
by Peter H. Diamandis: In this blog, I am going to show you how one GE exec (at GE HealthCare Hungary) figured out how to instill a sense of creative freedom among the employees that led to a real burst in innovation. …More
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An Electric Car Battery That Supports An Almost 250 Mile Range?
14 May 2013
by Nino Marchetti: A new development in extending the range of electric cars on a single charge of a battery could soon mean range anxiety is more of a thing of the past. …More
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In Two-Way Charging, Electric Cars Begin to Earn Money From the Grid
8 May 2013
By MATTHEW L. WALD: Finally, payback for the plug-in. …More
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Anticipated And Controversial, First Google Glass Devices In Production
23 Apr 2013
by: Jason Dorrier: Google Glass is fast becoming the most hyped, anticipated, controversial technology trial of the year. …More
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Dear TED, Is It ‘Bad Science’ or a ‘Game of Thrones’?
20 Apr 2013
By Deepak Chopra, MD. FACP, Stuart Hameroff, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., and Neil Theise, MD. One of modern science’s great strengths is that any questionable finding dies a quick death if it’s invalid. …More
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The Magic And Mystery Of Negotiating Winning Deals
17 Apr 2013
by Peter Guber: There’s both a magic and a mystery to negotiating winning deals. You’re in charge of the magic. The mystery is that sometimes you do everything right, and it still doesn’t happen. …More
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Saving Lives One Bead At A Time
10 Apr 2013
by Ed and Deb Shapiro: We just heard two inspiring, heart-wrenching, gut-churning, funny, amazing life stories from two Ugandan women, …More
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Dr. Andrew Weil discusses Cannabis
30 Mar 2013
Andrew Weil, M.D., a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, discusses his view on the use of cannabis and hemp.
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Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks
24 Mar 2013
by JOHN TIERNEY: BAD NEWS SELLS. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news.Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers, …More
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Start Following Your Dreams, Stop Worrying About What You’re ‘Supposed To Do’
17 Mar 2013
by Bill Drayton: In elementary school I could not imagine why I was being tortured by Latin or math, and, as a crashee, I had a twisted perception of soccer. …More
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Succeed Now and in Any Economy: The 7 Forces of Business Mastery
12 Mar 2013
by Anthony (Tony) Robbins: While these are challenging times, they are also times of opportunity. In fact, the best companies have always excelled in the most difficult eras. …More
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Fuel-Efficient Car Built Using 3D Printing Technologies
11 Mar 2013
Targeted to hit the road in two years, URBEE 2 represents a significant milestone in the world of traditional assembly-line manufacturing. …More
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After An Impressive 2012, Online Education To Go Global In 2013
6 Mar 2013
by: Jason Dorrier: A year after its 2012 launch, online education platform Coursera is booming. The startup recently added 29 partner universities, expanding their catalogue to 313 courses from 62 universities in 17 countries. …More
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Quest To Model The Human Brain Nets A Billion Euros
1 Mar 2013
By: Jason Dorrier: Is a billion euros enough to understand the human brain? The Human Brain Project thinks it’s a good start, and evidently the European Commission agrees. …More
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ROBOKIDS – A Growing Generation Of Housebound Kids Telecommuting To School With Robots
25 Feb 2013
By: Peter Murray: Devon Carrow was born with eosinophilic esophagitis, an allergic inflammatory disease in which white blood cells build up in the esophagus that makes exposure to common foods such as peanuts, milk and eggs life-threatening. …More
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FASTR Moves To Tear Down Science Research Paywall
19 Feb 2013
by Pete Danko: It’s awesome that the Obama administration is supporting so much research into renewable energy (like this and this) and other technologies of the future – and that the president wants to do even more. …More
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Conscious Money & Conscious Capitalism
11 Feb 2013
by Patricia Aburdene: Two of today’s greatest megatrends, Conscious Money and Conscious Capitalism, are cut from the same financial cloth. …More
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The Healthiest Way To Sit (INFOGRAPHIC)
5 Feb 2013
By Amanda Schupak for YouBeauty.com: How many hours do you spend at the computer every day? Eight? Ten? Twelve? …More
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3 Feb 2013
by Michael Shermer: As the publisher of Skeptic magazine I am often asked what I mean by skepticism, and if I’m skeptical of everything or if I actually believe anything. …More
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Motivation Theory | Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid
28 Jan 2013
Go beyond Dr, Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs! The new Pyramid of Needs offers insight into Motivation at Work, Human Needs and Psychological Well-Being. …More
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Khan Academy Update — It’s Hard To Imagine How Much Hotter This Tech Can Get
23 Jan 2013
By: David J. Hill: In 2011, one of the biggest innovations to come along in education was the Khan Academy, but as we kick off 2013, the question is, has the “next big thing in education” kept its sizzle or is it starting to fizzle? …More
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Cowboy Civility In An Uncivil World
18 Jan 2013
by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés: June 20, 2010 …suddenly some look-at-me guy at the bar cat-calls, “F- man, don’t you know more than one note, you loser?” …More
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What Does It Take to Convince Someone? Anthony (Tony) Robbins
15 Jan 2013
by Anthony (Tony) Robbins: Metaprogram #5: We’re continuing our exploration of metaprograms, the filters through which we communicate and influence others. …More
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Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE
24 Dec 2012
by Peter H. Diamandis: In this blog, I am going to talk about why large companies typically can’t innovate… What goes wrong? Why do they ultimately DIE? …More
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Metaprogram #3: Who Comes First – You, or Others?
17 Dec 2012
by Anthony (Tony) Robbins: We’re looking at metaprogams — the filters to your communication and influence. …More
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10 Reasons Your Emails Are Too Long
3 Dec 2012
by CRAIG: I recently received an email asking me a simple request. However, the email was 3 pages long. …More