1 Dave Logan: Why Business Books Suck
Most business books focus on personal achievement, not on leading others. The closest the story gets to leadership is being a role model for other heroes. This just isn't how the real world works. Source: The Huffington Post
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2 Yale bioethicist warns of singularity's perils at futurist gathering
The World Future Society’s yearly confab got underway last night in Boston with a keynote from Wendell Wallach, a bioethicist, lecturer and scholar at Yale University. Source: ZDNet
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3 Fly corneas prove viable for biomimetic surfaces, i.e. solar cells
Rows of tiny raised blowfly corneas may pave the way to easy manufacturing of bio-mimetic surfaces, surfaces that mimic the properties of biological tissues, according to Penn State researchers. Source: ZDNet
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4 MIT, Harvard researchers create programmable self-folding origami sheets
Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) have developed self-folding smart sheets of fiberglass that largely rely on the ancient art of origami. Source: ZDNet
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5 School to build world's highest-res 'holodeck' facility
With the help of a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Stony Brook University will build what they call a “Reality Deck” capable of providing visitors with 1.25 billion pixels of information, approaching the visual acuity of the human eye, according to researchers. Source: ZDNet
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6 The New Polymath: Interview with author Vinnie Mirchandani
Polymath is Greek for renaissance person; someone with the ability to do many remarkable things because they are experts across many disciplines. In this interview, Vinnie Mirchandani, talks about his new book,The New Polymath. Source: ZDNet
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7 Wireless power from space: energy salvation?
The idea of sending solar power satellites into orbit has been around since the 1970s, but interest has revived in recent years. Japan is wasting no time. The country plans to send its first solar-panel-equipped satellite into space this decade. Source: ZDNet
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8 Video trailers for next week's Siggraph 2010
SIGGRAPH, the world’s largest computer graphics expo, kicks off tomorrow at the Los Angeles Convention Center for five days dedicated to computer graphics and interactive technologies, such as visual effects and 3D animation. A series of videos preview the cutting edge CGI to be featured at the event. Source: ZDNet
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9 10 classic career disasters and lessons learned
Those professional missteps and failures often teach us more than our accomplishments and successes. Steve Tobak shares the positive outcomes of some of his negative career experiences. Source: TechRepublic
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10 Pulse: iPhone 4 stripped bare
Watch hi-res photos combined to make a stop-motion expose of the iPhone 4, revealing every detail of construction, from packaging, down to the chips on the logic board. Source: cnet.com.au
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