Nineteen million trees are cut down each year to publish both the White and Yellow Pages phone books. As if that isn’t bad enough, there’s also a lot of energy used: 7.2 million barrels of oil and 3 billion kilowatt hours of consumption, as well as 268,000 cubic yards of landfill. And that’s BEFORE we [...]
Aurthur Clarke (2001: A space Odyssey), said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
And this time of year, what’s more magic than the ability of one fat guy to circumnavigate the globe delivering presents. Well, turns out there’s a gentleman who can give us insights into just how that happens. He explains it’s [...]
Saw a video this weekend about the “dangers” of groin-to-groin front hugs among teens. We’ll go out on a limb here, and guess most mature people think there are better topics to rally against than the front hug. Of course, this group offers an alternative called the “Christian Side Hug.” (Believe me, I am NOTÂ [...]
Conventional wisdom says this next generation will be the first “not to live as well as their parents.”
I think that’s too subjective. Who says to live better you need a larger house, fancier car, nicer clothes, and affordable health care to remove genital warts… well, the last one they’ll need…
The fact is, the “next generation” [...]
When I read that headline, it got my attention!
Laura Ramos from Forrester Research wrote on her blog, (read it <here>) something interesting. Her simple observation was: Buyers are more likely to use information from friends and associates than from marketing messages and sales people. While she focuses on those marketing high technology products and services, [...]
If you’ve never read Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s Freakonomics book, it’s really interesting.
It explains what school teachers and Sumo wrestlers have in common, and how the KKK and Realtors have both been “undone” by the same forces.
Now, a new book by author Dan Hill called Emotionomics explains how we make decisions. He says only [...]