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WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson
One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? With Where ...
An open letter to the 1%: You cannot evict an idea whose time has come
Congratulations for demonstrating, with this cynically timed maneuver, that when push comes to shove the police exist to serve and protect your vested interests. From Oakland up to Vancouver, all the way over to Halifax and many places in between, injunctions and smear campaigns have paved the way for evictions. Congratulations are also in order for the seamless way you have deployed your media and your legal system against the Occupy encampments around North America. Congratulations on teaching a new generation this painful but necessary lesson about the true function of the police in a capitalist society. First, my congratulations on sending in the NYPD to clear out Zuccotti Park in the wee hours of the morning today. Congrats all around on the super job you&rsquo. ve done reminding us of the ultimate purpose of our society&rsquo. I write to you, as a lowly ninety-nine percenter, to offer both my congratulations and my condolences. You deserve thanks for proving that when consent falters you&rsquo.EU comes to terms with...
"In the European Union, monetary union means fiscal union," added Axel Poniatowski, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the French National Assembly. Albeit reluctantly, Europeans are now coming to terms with the idea that deeper political and fiscal integration will be needed for the 17 countries that share the euro currency. "Clearly, there will be a two-speed Europe: One gear with greater integration in the euro area and a more confederal gear in the European Union," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, speaking in Strasbourg on 9 November. Jean Leonetti, European Affairs Minister, summed up the French view during a recent hearing in the French Senate.Where Do Good Ideas Come From? | The Next Good Idea
I may have to read the book — if I can find the time that is. KEY: — A three-star marking (***) equals a very high recommendation. — A two-star marking (**) equals a high recommendation. — A one-star marking (*) equals a recommendation. — A no-star marking is reserved for those titles that are worth mentioning in some way, shape, or form. Wanna] is self [. ][. ] Recommended Alamar (Film Movement) — This breathtaking little gem of a movie—my very favorite of 2010, in fact—is executed with such seeming effortlessness, I was fully convinced I was watching a documentary the whole way... I love how the environment suggested for good idea generation is chaotic....
