I’m not sure what falconry has to do with selling what will likely be the world’s most expensive SUV, but the marketing gurus behind Bentley’s new sport “utility” vehicle seem to think that their target demographic will be able to relate to this peculiar subtle message. Continue reading
“It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.” Those words were spoken by Paul Gilding during his February, 2012 TED speech in Long Beach, California. Continue reading
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; Continue reading
Rod Serling, the narrator for The Twilight Zone, once described science fiction in the following terms: ”Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.” The term “sci-fi” itself was coined by famed American science fiction movie memorabilia collector Forrest Ackerman in 1954 but the genre itself has been around for nearly two thousand years. Continue reading
The idea of a “space elevator” – a structure that would allow material and/or people to move from Earth’s surface into space (and back) without the use of rockets – dates back to the late 1800s when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed a free-standing structure that would stretch from the surface of the Earth to a geostationary orbit 22,236 miles (35,786 km) up. Over the past century a number of different concepts (e.g., using a counterweight in space to support the structure) and technological innovations (e.g., carbon nanotubes) have come along that have put this ambitious idea more within reach. Continue reading
If you’ve read this blog for a while you probably know that I think Jeb Corliss is a lunatic (in a complimentary way) and a daredevil in the most genuine sense of the word. He’s a risk taker of the highest order and pushes the boundaries of “extreme” sports to never before attained (or imagined) limits. Continue reading
The Nielsen Company and NM Incite (a joint venture between Nielsen and McKinsey & Company) in their recently released U.S. Digital Consumer Report dubbed the current young adult generation “Generation C” based on their “connected” behaviors. This group – Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 – accounts for approximately 23% of the population according to the most recent U.S. Census but they spend far more time socializing and consuming media through their devices than other “generations.” Continue reading
Over the past decade and a half the U.S. economy has weathered two significant recessions, including crises in the residential real estate and financial services industries. Despite these economic hardships the self-employed and “solopreneur” workforce grew by 4.3 million workers and is projected to continue growing at double-digit rates. Continue reading
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Marshall Stanton (@marshallstanton) February 21, 2012
When I first saw the video above taken from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory the “Tears In Rain” soliloquy delivered by Replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) immediately came to mind. These twisters are as large (or larger) as the Earth itself, gust at 300,000 miles per hour, and are a relatively cool 15,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Continue reading
