The Capitalist’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen The RSA

Art and the Default Mode Network “It was the shift in attention from a full focus on the outside world to a split focus on external stimuli and internal world-modeling, Buckner theorizes, that accounted for the cognitive leaps that eventually separated modern man from his ape ancestors.”

Theory on origin of animals challenged: Animals need only extremely little oxygen “One of science’s strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere rose to close to modern levels. But now studies of a small sea sponge fished out of a Danish Fjord shows that complex […]

James Burke says the darndest things “Burke said that in the past, there was only one truth, put there by the ruling class to ensure everyone behaved in the same way. But that’s changing.”

James Surowiecki: The End of Brand Loyalty : The New Yorker “…this has made customer loyalty pretty much a thing of the past. Only twenty-five per cent of American respondents in a recent Ernst & Young study said that brand loyalty affected how they shopped.”