Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Paul's Update 7/31

Kleiner Wassersensor: The Little DIY Water Tester That Could Change the World
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The Secret of Malcolm Gladwell's Success
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The Problem Solving Paradox of Creativity
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Creative Passion: The Antonym of Apathy
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The World is Losing Faith in Hard Work
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Stanford's Next Lesson: Free Online Courses for Credit and Degrees?
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NASA X-ray Concept Inspired From a Roll of Scotch Tape
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Paul's Update 7/30

The Military Muscle Shaping Yale's Leadership Training
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MOOCs are really a platform
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Umair Haque: Why the Relationship Between Institutions and Individuals Broke
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Unleash our Kids
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The Number One Killer of Corporate Innovation
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The 11 Leadership Secrets You've Never Heard About
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Does Europe Understand the First Amendment Better Than We Do?
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Paul's Update 7/26


Six Characteristics of Highly Persuasive Stories
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Massive Health is Going to Use Your Cell Phone to Keep You Healthy
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15 Ways Whoever is Going to Disrupt Your Market Isn't Like You
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An iPhone App for Skin Cancer Diagnosis
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Why the LIBOR Scandal is a bigger deal than JPMorgan
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Serendipity Isn't a User Case
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Is Detroit Becoming a Suburb?
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The "Chemputer" that Could Print Out Any Drug
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The Discipline of Listening
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Paul's Update 7/25

Marissa Mayer's 9 Principles of Innovation
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Act Bigger Than You Are
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The Single Most Important Experiment in Higher Education
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College Degrees: Designed By The Numbers
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Salvatore Dali's Creative Thinking Technique
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How Doctors Without Borders is Mapping the World's Epidemics
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The Psychology Behind Why Creative People Cluster
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IBM Deploys Talent, Technology and Innovation for Global Social Progress
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More Americans Are Disillusioned With The College Degree
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Colleges Awakening to the Opportunities of Mining Big Data (NYT)
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Paul's Update 7/24

Experimental Psychology: The Roar of the Crowd
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Did God Discover the God Particle?
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Dan M. Kahan - Science Communication as the 'New Political Science" for Democracy (video 16 minutes)
Worth watching. Paul
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America's New Business Model: Sharing
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The Secret Lives of Zipcar Drivers (Maybe sharing is not a new business model.)
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Creativity Within Constraints
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Richard Florida: Suburban Renewal
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Commentary: Is Detroit Becoming Michigan's Next Suburb?
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Paul's Update 7/23

Why the Morrill Land-Grant College Act Still Matters
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Where Do You Spend the Most Creative Minutes of Your Day?
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Filthy Rich in 1955: How the Wealthiest Americans Lived 60 Years Ago
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Quantitative Easing: QE or not QE?
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The Glass Cliff
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Stinky, Spicy, and Delicious: The Radical Reinvention of Asian American Food
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Meet the 15-year-old Who Is Changing How We Test For Cancer
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Paul's Update 7/19

Pew Study Finds Steep Declines in Faith in Politicians and Capitalism
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Zaha Hadid and Suprematism
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Rethinking the Concept of "Outliers": Why Non_Experts are Better at Disruptive Innovation
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Why Brainstorming Doesn't Always Work
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Quantifying well-being and impact can drive investors to build a better world
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Just 20 Fish Could Overtake the Great Lakes
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To Make America Great Again We Need to Leave the Country
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As usual the PIE-Up will be at the Grand Traverse Pie Company, Grand River and Hagadorn, at 8am on Thursday, August 2.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Paul's Update 7/18

Podcast, Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Leadership in the Digital Age
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How Good Design Can Guide People to Smarter Money Decisions
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Why You're Killing Your Business By Not Having a Business Blog
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How to Use Design Thinking to Increase Conversion
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The Glorious End of Higher Education's Monopoly on Credibility
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Your Start-up Life: Why Serving is the New Leading
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The Positives of Playing Favorites
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Paul's Update 7/17

The Geography of Homelessness
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We Know What You're Doing... A Social Networking Privacy Experiment
Let this one sink in a bit...it's amazing. Paul
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A Core Curriculum to Create Engaged Entrepreneurs
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8 Germiest Public Places
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The Bad Boy of Business Wants You to be Good
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What Future Technology Will Offer Us In 2020
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8 Ways the World Will Change by 2052
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Where Creativity Comes From. Johna Lehner (Video)
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Monday, July 16, 2012

Paul's Update 7/16

Pa. State Colleges get more freedom to raise funds...Professors can commercialize research to benefit both themselves and their university.
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Richard Florida: The New Geography of the Service Class
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A Shocking Sight in Downtown Detroit: People
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Food or Fuel? American Corn Grown for ethanol could feed hundreds of millions
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Swallowing Bugs
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Too Many Metro Areas Are Still Failing to Connect Workers and Jobs
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The Awesome Power of Toolbanks
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Power To The Edge: Command... Control... in the Information Age
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Paul's Update 7/13

Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal
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Is Open Access a Moral or a Business Issue
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Top 10 Most Entertaining and Notable Detroit Blogs
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Ford's Big Data Chief Sees Massive Possibilities But the Tools Need Work
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Paul's Update 7/12

America Has Too Many Teachers (Check the many comments)
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The Future of Higher Education (University of Wisconsin)
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IBM Corporate Responsibility Report
Why aren't there more companies doing this? Paul
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Ode To Joy: 50 String Instruments That Will Melt Your Heart
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Advanced Conflict Management for Leaders
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Why Walmart is Like a Forest
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Uberconference: Techcrunch Disrupt Winner
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The Revolution: Top 10 Disruptors of Education
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Paul's Update 7/11

Why Nashville Companies Are Targeting Tweens For High-Tech Jobs
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Richard Florida: Wanted: Working Class Jobs
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Labor Mobility: America Settles Down
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Games, Learning and Society
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Less Confident People are More Successful
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Reporter Golfs 18-mile Course Across Detroit (Video)
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Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Paul's Update 7/10

Umair Haque: 21st Century Business (video)
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The Inside Story of the Extra Second That Crashed The Web
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How Connected Health, Public-Private Cooperation and Big Data Can Revolutionize Health Care
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Top 20 Cities With Billions at Risk from Climate Change
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How a Sony Marketing Manager Helped Build a Breakthrough Product
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Why the Internet Isn't Going to End College as We Know It. (Don't miss comments either. Paul)
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A student's smart Microsoft rebranding is better than the real thing
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Monday, July 9, 2012

Paul's Update 7/9

Flipped Education
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The Audition
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Making Cities Sing
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Umair Haque: Declare Your Radicalness
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Another Thing Immigrants Do For The Economy: Invent Cool Things
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Tom Peters: Chapter 15 We Are Who We Hang Out With
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Your Next Impulse Buy: The Presidency
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Friday, July 6, 2012

Paul's Update 7/6

Robert Putnam: Class Now Trumps Race as the Great Divide in America
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High-Maintenance Generation Z Heads to Work
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Umair Haque: The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity
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Jason Silva: Radical Openness
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The Promise of Big Data in Open Innovation
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Harvard Scientists Reverse the Aging Process in Mice - Now for Humans
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What Captures Your Attention Controls Your Brain
I learned from Earl Nightingale: We become what we think about. Paul
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The Busy Trap
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Anne-Marie Slaughter: The "Having It All" Debate Convinced Me To Stop Saying "Having It All"
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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Paul's Update 7/5

A Day With Gary Hamel
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Cities Grow More Than Suburbs, First Time in 100 Years
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Is Your City Making You Single?
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The Myth of Work-Life Balance - A Debate on Career and Motherhood
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21 Charts That Explain American Values Today
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Rolling Stone: The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class
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Start Garden Could Be The Push Detroit Needs Toward Some Green Entrepreneurial Shoots
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Richard Florida: Why Mayors Can Make or Break a City (Video)
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Paul's Update 7/3

The Academic Jungle: Ecosystem Model Reveals Why Women Are Driven Out of Science
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Los Angeles Digs In With City Farming
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Detroit, MSU Moving Forward on Urban Agriculture Research Campus
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Why Can't We Just Convert Vacant Buildings Into Housing For The Homeless
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Get Ready For A Maturing America
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A Manifesto for Economic Sense
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Richard Florida on "The Entrepreneurs" (Podcast)
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Umair Haque: The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity
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Monday, July 2, 2012

Paul's Update 7/2

Umair Haque on The Crisis That Never Ends
Us America Giving Up On the Future, September 28,2011 Link Here
The Great Splintering, August 10, 2011 Link Here
The Neofeudal Degeneration, November 24, 2011 Link Here
How's Our Economy Really Doing? A Betterness Report Card, March 13, 2012 Link Here
Reimagining Capitalism, June 28,2012 (Video) Link Here

Think You Can't Take a Vacation? The Sound Business Reasons Why You Really Should
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CriticCar Freewheels Into Detroit The Fall: a New Platform to Drive Arts Coverage
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Why Tech Startups Are Mad For Madison (and Ann Arbor)
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The Rise of Social Enterprise (INFOGRAPHIC)
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