The Boston Globe kick-started an debate last Sunday when they uncovered a study Robert Putman, Harvard Professor and author of Bowling Alone, published earlier this year.  The Globe’s article was titled “The Downside of Diversity”.  It opened as such:
It has become increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From multicultural festivals […]

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Nothing against lawyers, but quite frankly i’m hoping for all of our sakes that they are to blame for a all of the (really bad) product names/product packaging/packaging messaging. It couldn’t, could it, be the fault of well, me or others in our industry, right?
Now, possibly not as immediately important as the discussions of engagement, […]

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What’s Make Magazine? It’s Popular Mechanics for indy geeksters, and leaves Wired Magazine looking like pretty uninspired. Don’t take that to mean it’s self important, or a field guide to engineering. It’s seriously fun… the kind of study that made you enjoy going to biology class dissections, rocket science for kids (i.e. blowing stuff up […]

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