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...case study in unexpectedness, consider the Japanese company that became Sony. After World War II, the firm was struggling, when the company's lead technologist proposed a new product: a pocketable radio. That was nearly insane. At the time a radio was a piece of furniture. But the suggestion worked. As a product, yes, but before that as an idea. Cognitive science tells us that the human brain is wired to perceive patterns and is drawn to aberrations--a radio small enough to fit in my pocket...
Behavioral economics theorizes that when we have a gap in our knowledge, we strive to resolve it. Imagine the engineers immediately asking, A pocket-size radio, how would we even start to build one? Just as important, though, the notion of a tiny radio meshed with Sony's business: a maker of electronics. Gratuitous surprise may catch our attention briefly, but it doesn't hold our interest...
...Force One touches down in tightly contested congressional districts these days, it often turns out that the G.O.P. candidate there has discovered a previous commitment elsewhere, the political equivalent of suddenly needing to have your tires rotated. Yes, it's true that Florida Congressman Clay Shaw has been running radio ads to boast of his record working closely with a President, but the one he's talking about is Bill Clinton...
...question of whether human beings are the only intelligent life in the universe has baffled scientists for decades. Two Harvard professors think they have identified the equipment they will need to recognize radio waves from outer space, though one of them remains skeptical that alien signals will ever be found. Astronomy Professor Abraham “Avi” Loeb and Professor of Astronomy and Physics Matias Zaldarriaga proposed earlier this month a way to use new radio wave observatories to search for radio emissions from alien civilizations. Loeb, whose main area of research focuses on mapping...
...over 1 million copies since it was first published in 1980. Last night’s event, titled “The Inner Life of Democracy,” was part of the Cambridge Forum series, a weekly public affairs program taped at the church and broadcast on public radio stations across the country. Poet Mark Nepo introduced Zinn and interviewed him on-stage before opening up to the audience for questions. Zinn was interrupted on multiple occasions by applause while he criticized the U.S. government’s conduct of the war in Iraq. “I believe...