Jack Weatherford provides an interesting and much more positive account of Genghis Khan’s life and legacy than I … Continuer la lecture de « Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is amazing and surprising! »

Check out the cover of the latest Economist 🙂 I can’t wait to read it 🙂

I came across the following article in the Wall Street Journal last week. Many of the themes and … Continuer la lecture de « The Pursuit of Happiness: six experts tell what they’ve done to achieve it »

I count The Thomas Crown Affair with Pierce Brosnan as one of my favorite movies and was amused … Continuer la lecture de « The Real Thomas Crown Affair! »

I wanted to share with you a wonderful idea called ChangingThePresent.org. Through this site, which partners with the … Continuer la lecture de « For the holidays: Do good, feel better »

The conference was interesting with the quality of the debates and presentation on par with anything done in … Continuer la lecture de « LeWeb3 Conference Debrief »

I just arrived in Paris from Buenos Aires for LeWeb3 conference organized by Loic Lemeur. I was horrified … Continuer la lecture de « France and the mirage of progess »

The predictions for the next 50 years by dozens of world class scientists are wide ranging and intriguing. … Continuer la lecture de « Read New Scientist’s 50th Anniversary Special Edition »

As a dog owner and lover, I am very moved by stories like this one: An 81-year old … Continuer la lecture de « Amazing dog story »

I had heard of Richard Dawkins but had never read any of his books. The book is an … Continuer la lecture de « The God Delusion is great »

Alex Vilenkin does an amazing job at describing in laymen’s terms the recent findings in astrophysics and cosmology. … Continuer la lecture de « Many Worlds in One is fascinating! »

Ted Halstead, a friend of mine and president of the New America Foundation, recently became addicted to kite … Continuer la lecture de « Kite surfing is divine! »

As a former McKinsey consultant, I find Scott Adam’s take extremely amusing 🙂

Her story as well as that of her parents and her husband deserves to be told. The book … Continuer la lecture de « Personal History by Katherine Graham is great »

Following Gary Smith’s amazing biography of Andre Agassi in Sports Illustrated I was inspired to buy Beyond the … Continuer la lecture de « Beyond the Game is disappointing »