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The stroke of insight of Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist. So you will soon understand the extraordinary insight she got when one morning, she woke up with a terrible pain on the left temporal lobe. As a person, she was both living an intense connective experience and a struggle for survival against a stroke. As a scientist, she [...]

Free Software Foundation

The FSF is a charity with a worldwide mission to advance software freedom — learn about our history and work.

Evernote Forever

I am a great believer in open source. I have been using Linux since Core 1.1.51 (with long gone distribution on 40 diskettes, sigh…), but also Firefox, etc. I like open source because more often than not, these tools are great, even too some extent better than the professional competition. The reason? Feedback. But this [...]

Future Exploration Network

Future Exploration Network has an interesting website. They pride themselves in “connecting ideas and people at the edge of the future”; ambitious program if you ask me.
They seem to sell their services to large companies like Microsoft, Toyota, American Express, Coca-Cola. So it is unlikely that you would order your own special report, just for [...]

The man who reinvented the corporation

I was recently reading an old article from the March 22, 2004 issue of Business Week. In a series entitled The Great Innovators, they were taking a closer look at the men and women who had left a mark in business, science, technology, government, etc.
This article summarized the life and contribution of Alfred Sloan. Although [...]

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