In the spring of 2010, Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, delivered an unorthodox speech to the graduating class. The students who invited him were already familiar with his concept of "disruptive innovation", the term he has famously used to describe simple technologies that overthrow entire industries. But...

The popularity of dream studies goes in waves and right now the dream wave is cresting. As New York dream researcher Ross Levin told me recently, "Dreams are hot right now." It's not too surprising that in times of turmoil we dare to dream. But what are the practical applications?

There has been all this news recently about the rise of Japanese "Herbivore Boys," men who shun sex and dating, assume a feminine sartorial visage, and eschew their father's professional traditions, instead content to hole up in their bedrooms playing video games. The stagnant economy has made these Herbivores,...

For the last ten years, a husband and wife team of economists at UCLA, Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn, have been pouring through piles of data on soldiers who fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War. The result of their research is a new book entitled Heroes...

Since retiring from a sparkling 40-year military career the Associated Press says combined "impeccable military credentials with an ambassador's polish," Gen. Jim Jones has served as president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy. This job requires, according to the...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson may have cried on election night when it was announced that Barack Obama won the election, but last summer, the legendary civil rights activist once suggested that he'd like to cut the senator's nuts out -- for "talking down to black people." Rev. Jackson is...

At the website Big Think,...