Posts Tagged ‘innovation’

• Marshall McLuhan vs. Peter Robertson

  If the “medium is the message,” Robertson’s message was clear: life’s too short to deal with stripped screws

  by macleans.ca - Friday, September 24, 2010

• Guy Laliberté vs. Norman Bethune

  Sure, healing battle wounds is a noble pursuit. But is it as entertaining as Cirque du Soleil?

  by macleans.ca - Friday, September 24, 2010

• James Naismith vs. Mike Lazaridis

  If you could have just one, which would it be—basketball or your BlackBerry?

  by macleans.ca - Friday, September 24, 2010

• Let us now celebrate the losers

  We owe a debt to failures, to those creative ideas that flamed out or gloriously flopped

  by Scott Feschuk - Thursday, September 23, 2010

• The method man

  A memoir, a Neil Young CD: Daniel Lanois is back. Jonathon Gatehouse on the legend’s search for pure sound.

  by Jonathon Gatehouse - Thursday, September 23, 2010

• Corporate mind games

  More and more companies are mining data about their employees to predict how they’ll behave in the future

  by Jason Kirby - Thursday, September 23, 2010

• Investment house on the Prairies

  A Toronto firm plans to build the world’s biggest farm, and maybe one day a brand name in food

  by Chris Sorensen - Thursday, September 23, 2010

• Divided they ride

  Drivers ignore painted lanes for cyclists. Vancouver decided there was only one way to fix that problem.

  by Nancy Macdonald - Thursday, September 23, 2010

• A house made entirely of Lego

  Before James May could climb his Lego stairs, take his Lego shower, pat his Lego cat and sleep in his Lego bed, there were a few obstacles

  by Brian Bethune - Thursday, September 23, 2010

• Rethinking motherhood: the third act

  Marni Jackson: Maybe grown kids staying closer to home isn’t so bad

  by macleans.ca - Tuesday, September 21, 2010

• J. Crew and the mail-order makeover

  How the retailer reinvented itself as the new name in popular fashion

  by Julia Belluz - Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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  Bill Gates on what’s wrong with public schools

  Including the huge textbooks, and why bad teachers have to go

  by Kenneth Whyte - Tuesday, September 21, 2010

• David Cameron is getting away with things Thatcher never could

  The Prime Minister is changing the way politics work in Britain

  by Michael Petrou - Sunday, September 19, 2010

• Information needs to be free

  The magazine’s Rethink issue—Warning: sideways design may blow your mind—includes this story on the…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, September 17, 2010

• Hey look: My month at the edge of the universe

  For 17 days that began in late June and ended in late July, I…

  by Paul Wells - Friday, September 17, 2010

• Mind-bending mysteries at the Perimeter Institute

  WELLS: What the big thinkers know, what they’re trying to learn, and how close we may be to a genuine revolution

  by Paul Wells - Friday, September 17, 2010

• Destination Mars

  Human explorers will set foot on the red planet one day. And it might be sooner than most of us realize.

  by Kate Lunau - Friday, September 17, 2010

• Who's the greatest Canadian innovator?

  Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best have been crowned Canada’s greatest innovators

  by macleans.ca - Thursday, September 16, 2010

• The NHL’s ice-capades

  Why the NHL’s unparalleled experiments with the rules of hockey could be the key to its very survival

  by Colby Cosh - Thursday, September 16, 2010

• Superbug: meet your maker

  Frogs evolved to fight off microbes. They may also provide us with the next class of antibiotics.

  by Kate Lunau - Thursday, September 16, 2010

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