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When Airlines Remembered What Really Fuels their Business

The big story over the weekend was Spirit Airlines going out of business. It’s sad, sure, but was anyone really surprised? To begin with, air …

Colorless, Shapeless Orb

Everybody’s best friend on the Internet, the relatable Elyse Myers (3.9 million followers on Instagram, with a New York Times best seller to boot), published …

Going Electric

Artists like to reinvent themselves. It’s what they do. Compare the Beatles’ music and the way they dressed between the early 1960s versus 1970. Or …

America’s Founding Mother

We Americans all know the Founding Fathers. Washington. Adams. Jefferson. Franklin. The usual suspects. What we talk less about is the Founding Mother. Founding Mother? …

The First Rule of Fight Club

“Fight Club” (1999), starring Ed Norton (as “The Narrator”) and Brad Pitt (as “Tyler Durden”) is considered one of the best movies of its decade. …

The Moon was Never the Point

You know the old cliché about the moon and the stars? That if you shoot for the moon and miss, it’s all well and good …

What Viking Cuisine Can Tell Us About Innovation

In the 1970s, the late academic, Thomas McGovern who was well known in environmental circles at the time proposed a nice explanation for why the …

Mommy, Where Does Meaning Come From?

There’s a great novel that came out in 1949, “The Sheltering Sky” by Paul Bowles. It’s about a married couple, Port and Kit Moresby, two …

You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours

Robert Trivers died last week, perhaps the greatest evolutionary biologist of the last century. Though not as famous as his colleague, Richard Dawkins, he did …

Meliora

Back in 1990, the appointed head administrator for the recently bankrupt Eastern Airlines, Martin Shugrue gave an all hands speech in front of employees in …

Aim

In 1429, an illiterate 17-year old French peasant defined the fate of kings and successfully redefined global power politics. During the Hundred Years’ War, England …