SchwartzReport: Alzheimer’s Break-Through Blocked by Grant Approval Mind-Sets Locked into Past Failures

This has the potential to be a tremendous breakthrough, It reminds of the the shift in research concerning ulcers. Twenty Years of Alzheimer’s Research May Have Focused on the Wrong Protein ELIZABETH LOPATTO – The Daily Beast Phi Beta Iota: Whether it’s the National Science Foundation or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or DARPA/IARPA, …

Mini-Me: Is Google Stupid? Here’s The Plan — and the Phi Beta Iota Alternative

Huh? Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant By Marcus Wohlsen WIRED 01.27.14 Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known …

Review: 24 Carat BOLD – Claim Your Position as the Top Expert in Your Field

Mindy Gibbins-Klein 4.0 out of 5 stars Concise, Clear, Logical, Missing the Magic Sauce, January 23, 2014 I read this book and have ordered a book recommended by this author, Ron Brown’s How to Build Your Reputation. Having published nine books myself, I am a little jaded when someone says “write a book and be …

Review: On Complexity

Edgar Morin 7 Stars Life Transformative  Foundation Work for Everything Else This is a remarkably coherent book about the most important topic for all of us, the matter of complexity and more to the point, thinking about complexity. I certainly recommend it most strongly, along with two other books by the same author that I …

Internet Society: Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance + Open Letter to the Internet Society

Internet Society Launches Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance 02 August 2013 Part of broader dialogue on open and multistakeholder governance for a sustainable Internet [Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland] — The Internet Society today announced the launch of a survey to gain greater insights into multistakeholder governance perceptions and processes at all levels …