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50 Examples of Corporations that Failed to Innovate

VALUER+A lot of companies that experience innovationsuccess, grab onto it and believe that it’s theirsecret to everlasting success. This mindsetputs any company at risk of failure but refusingto evolve with the market can be even moredevastating.“Without a robust and resilient innovation strategy,no company can survive,” says Phil McKinney, CEOof CableLabs.This E-book will cover 50 examples …

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BOURDAIN’S FIELD NOTES: MEXICO

Anthony Bourdain * 10 January 2018 Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales, and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities. We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal, and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—we …

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Digital Currencies will make the Economies more Inclusive

Photo: Marchmeena29 on iStock Our global financial system needs an upgrade, writes the CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman, in a column published on Fortune*. “No matter where you are around the globe, the system is expensive and inconvenient, sometimes taking days to settle transactions for businesses, and charging exorbitant fees for lower-income populations to access …

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The Left Hand

Juan Villoro Vicente Rojo was seven years old when his mother had to sell the piano. His father, who belonged to the Communist Party, had gone into exile in Mexico after the Civil War, and it would take Vicente ten years to reach him. In …

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The End of Intelligence

Photo: iLexx on iStock Juan Villoro On December 11, 2020, James Flynn, a philosopher, and psychologist who studied human intelligence evolution, died. Decisive statistics on brain performance are owed to him, a very recent field, considering that Homo sapiens has been in trouble for 315,000 years, and IQ tests have been applied for only a …

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Optical Glass Sculptures

Both a tremendous athlete and a motivated student growing up in New Hampshire, it wasn’t until later in life that Jack discovered his passions in contemporary art and graduated at age 30 from Plymouth State University with a BA in Art focusing primarily on studio production. It was during his junior year there that he …

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The Neobiological Revolution

Jane Metcalfe is a chocolatier, co-founder of Wired Magazine, and CEO and Editor in Chief of NEO.LIFE, a media company that tracks the astonishing advances in human biology that will drive the next phase of our evolution.   NEO.LIFE covers some of our favourite topics — neuroscience, genetics, longevity, food, sex, biohacking, …

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Calling the Cosmos: Searching for Extra-Terrestrial intelligence.

Is there life beyond this planet we call home?  Scientists say that the answer is more likely ‘yes’ than ‘no.’  Douglas Vakoch, astrobiologist, extraterrestrial researcher, psychologist, and president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI), has not ruled out the possibility of life beyond Earth and has embraced the METI mission of finding out more and ‘educating others along …

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Countries that Will Hold the Power in 20 Years.

British Broadcasting Corporation According to the BBC, a rapidly increasing population in Africa, with a pool of young, better educated, and globally connected workers could fuel its economic growth when combined with the spread of vast super arrays of far cheaper solar panels. As for China, after cornering many of the worlds vital raw materials, …

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