While making the ritual triple-shot cappuccinos Sunday morning, I caught a story on TV about what really happened the night John Lennon was murdered 35 years ago. For all these years, Dr. Stephan Lynn – then head of emergency medicine at New York’s Roosevelt Hospital – claims to have been[…] Read On
My concern with the hype surrounding entrepreneurship and leadership, not to mention the extreme dilution of those auspicious terms, is a topic I’ve touched on many times but never really articulated the way I’m seeing it this morning. Let’s see if I can do it justice. Here’s the thing. I have[…] Read On
Searching for a scary movie to watch on Halloween, we came across Idiocracy, a sci-fi satire about the world’s dystopian future. Not a horror film, but its prophetic depiction of the dumbed-down society we’re rapidly becoming is terrifying, nonetheless. Written and directed by Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead and Silicon[…] Read On
If you want to go to Pluto, better bring your Uggs and a flashlight. The dwarf planet is so far from the Sun that it’s perpetual nighttime with a surface temperature of minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit. As Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft approached Pluto, scientists expected to find very little going[…] Read On