Would the business world or academia accept without criticism or anxiety the type of behavior demonstrated by the current President of the U.S.? He wanders around the public forum like a broken toy. Why doesn't anyone say anything?
An overall twin correlation across thirty-eight measures was r = 0.95, p < .001. In contrast with previous research, the twins’ general intelligence and non-verbal reasoning scores showed some marked differences. A remarkable study of female co-twins, raised separately by an adoptive family in the United States and the biological family in South Korea.
Obstacle-course racing is close to being named the new fifth sport in modern pentathlon, replacing equestrianism, in a highly contentious move that opponents warn will plunge the sport deeper into civil war.
George Gilder on information, not materials, driving growth: "Wealth is most essentially knowledge... the caveman had access to all the materials we have today. Therefore, economic growth is learning, manifested in ‘learning curves’ of collapsing costs driven by markets...Crash a car and all its value disappears, though every molecule remains...Capitalism is not chiefly an incentive system, where entrepreneurs act in rote response to rewards and punishments like in a Skinner Box. It’s an information system governed by the unveiling of surprising truths, innovation. If the creativity of entrepreneurs wasn’t a surprise, socialist planning would work.”
M]eritocracy is a revolutionary idea, the intellectual dynamite which has blown up old worlds – and created the materials for the construction of new ones. For millennia, most societies have been organized according to the very opposite principles to meritocracy. People inherited their positions in fixed social orders. The world was ruled by royal dynasties. Plum jobs were bought and sold like furniture. Nepotism was a way of life. Upward mobility was discouraged and sometimes outlawed.--woodward
Obstacle-course racing is close to being named the new fifth sport in modern pentathlon, replacing equestrianism, in a highly contentious move that opponents warn will plunge the sport deeper into civil war.
George Gilder on information, not materials, driving growth: "Wealth is most essentially knowledge... the caveman had access to all the materials we have today. Therefore, economic growth is learning, manifested in ‘learning curves’ of collapsing costs driven by markets...Crash a car and all its value disappears, though every molecule remains...Capitalism is not chiefly an incentive system, where entrepreneurs act in rote response to rewards and punishments like in a Skinner Box. It’s an information system governed by the unveiling of surprising truths, innovation. If the creativity of entrepreneurs wasn’t a surprise, socialist planning would work.”
M]eritocracy is a revolutionary idea, the intellectual dynamite which has blown up old worlds – and created the materials for the construction of new ones. For millennia, most societies have been organized according to the very opposite principles to meritocracy. People inherited their positions in fixed social orders. The world was ruled by royal dynasties. Plum jobs were bought and sold like furniture. Nepotism was a way of life. Upward mobility was discouraged and sometimes outlawed.--woodward
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