The only Plan B that entrepreneurs do have is the one that refers back to Plan A.

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Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. When an employee needs to move to a new city for a few months, they’re either stuck in bland, giant apartment complexes or Airbnbs…

AWS has close ties to the start-up community and is now testing a new program to give investors a chance to put money into young companies.

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”

Is climate change more like an asteroid or diabetes? Last month, one of us argued at Slate that climate advocates should resist calls to declare a national climate emergency because climate change was…

Readers, not a Twitter mob, should decide the fate of a book.

The problem in America today is not incivility or intolerance. It’s something far worse.

Jetpack Aviation has leap-frogged its own flying car project with the announcement that it's taking pre-orders now on a self-stabilizing, jet turbine-powered flying motorcycle capable of 150 mph…

The Quest for Cosmic Justice [Thomas Sowell] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both merit and

In 2009, the U.S. unemployment rate exceeded Europe’s for the first time in decades. Apologists for European labor market regulation rejoiced, so I publicly bet that European unemployment would exceed…

I really enjoyed my Tuesday debate on “The Philosophy of Poverty?” with my friend David Balan.  Many thanks to GMU’s Economics Society for setting it up.  While we had a great discussion, here are a few thoughts I’d like to add. 1. In my

The announcement followed months of contract negotiations over the cost of the publisher’s journals. “I fully support our faculty, staff, and students in breaking down paywalls that hinder the sharing…

A number of studies have reported that higher intelligence is associated with socially liberal attitudes. Less clear, however, is whether this link ex…

May 2004When people care enough about something to do it well, those who do it best tend to be far better than everyone else. There's a huge gap between Leonardo and second-rate contemporaries like…

January 2004 Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It's the nature of…

The co-founder and CEO of nuclear technology startup Oklo on chasing what's next, breaking off from the establishment, and building a nuclear reactor that people want.

New research suggests that a controversial gene-editing experiment to make children resistant to HIV may also have enhanced their ability to learn and form memories.

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Returning to designs abandoned in the 1970s, start-ups are developing a new kind of reactor that promises to be much safer and cleaner than current ones.

An open letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica regarding Amazon.