Digital Dieting
Why do we group so many things in sevens? Seven is more than a lucky number. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
Why do we group so many things in sevens? Seven is more than a lucky number. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
Posted 11.24.2009 | Sports
Tiger Woods received an unexpected wave of boos at Stanford on Saturday. Woods, who was an honorary captain at Saturday's Big Game between Stanford an...
AP | WILL GRAVES | Posted 11.23.2009 | Sports
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Western Kentucky has hired Stanford assistant Willie Taggart as its football coach. Taggart replaces David Elson, who was fir...
Naomi Hirabayashi | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact
Peace Dot is a campaign put on by Stanford University and is the brainchild of Stanford's Persuasive Technology Lab -- which markets itself as an attempt to harness computing power as a force for social change.
Jerry Weissman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
On Saturday, two separate articles from two diverse sources -- sports and politics -- provided a lesson about the importance of being positive in communication.
Celeste Fine | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books
Perhaps product innovations, like books with video, are only as successful as they pertain to customer intimacy, and the future of books isn't inventing a better book but better meeting readers' needs.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books
It's the only thing that could top Freakonomics Meet the PROFESSORS, PROSTITUTES, DOCTORS, INVENTORS, PSYCOLOGISTS, and OTHER REAL-LIFE CHARACTER...
Reuters | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business
Stanford University is looking to sell as much as $1 billion worth of investments including private equity investments, real estate and timberlands, t...
Tara Stiles | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
How long would you last resisting the marshmallow? That is the question asked in the "kid torture" video, a recreation of the study done in the 1960s at Stanford analyzing behavior, willpower, and success.
Bill Mann | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment
TV's obsessive coverage of football, a lucrative sport, has sullied it, possibly irreparably.
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
Talk of Asia tech is no longer a turn-off in the Valley for a key reason -- China and other Asian upstart nations are emerging as innovation powerhouses.
Reuters | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
The tiny Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda, still reeling from the fraud scandal surrounding Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, on Thursday found ...
AP | MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 09.10.2009 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — It might not be long until there is a gene scanner in every doctor's office, as DNA sequencing becomes faster and cheaper. A St...
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission had been actively investigating the banking business of billionaire R. Allen Stanford for mo...
miamiherald.com | By LUCY KOMISAR, MICHAEL SALLAH and ROB BARRY | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business
Years before his banking empire was shut down in a massive fraud case, Allen Stanford swept into Florida with a bold plan: entice Latin Americans to p...
Chip Conley | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business
The world is chaotic and unfair. And, certainly, it isn't controllable. One thing you can control is your definition of your scorecard.
Norb Vonnegut | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business
FINRA and the SEC are compounding a problem -- they're regulating unevenly. The result is that bad guys have a place to hide -- or to reinvent themselves.
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing torture and misleading Americans into the illegal Iraq War.
Phil Trounstine | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics
About 150 protest veterans, who led the fight 40 years ago to dislodge Stanford University from the War in Vietnam, on Sunday called on Stanford to sever relations with former Provost Condoleezza Rice.
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
At a Q&A with Stanford students, Condoleezza Rice was extremely uncomfortable, defensive and nervous. She was rude to the first student, interrupted him and yelled at him.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.22.2009 | Business
Allen Stanford, the financier who has been accused of an $8 billion ponzi scheme by the Securities and Exchange Commission. After remaining mum on t...
AP | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business
DALLAS — The chief financial officer of the troubled companies owned by Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford has promised full cooperation with f...
Huffington Post | Carrie Crotty | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business
Yesterday, Antiguans voted in one of their most contentious elections in years. Allen Stanford, who allegedly ran an $8 billion ponzi scheme, was clos...
Duncan Quirk | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
Senators and Representatives are elected to represent their constituents, so why should Madoff and Stanford and others be allowed to donate to campaigns for which they are not constituents?
AP | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business
TAMPA, Fla. — Yankees outfielders Johnny Damon and Xavier Nady are among the investors whose accounts were caught in a freeze by the government ...
Jacqueline Leo | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books