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It Was Important to Vote, Said the Handful Who Did

Inside the gold-tiled assembly room at Public School 108 in the Bronx on Tuesday, 31 poll workers, their blue pens out and white notebooks open, waited for a burst of democracy that never arrived. Get up-to-the minute news from City Room, The New York ...

From MICHAEL BARBARO AND SEAN MCMANUS, The New York Times,  29 Sep 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Twitter Inc,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Michael Bloomberg

Sean McManus: What You Don't Know About Dreams

The popularity of dream studies goes in waves and right now the dream wave is cresting. As New York dream researcher Ross Levin told me recently, "Dreams are hot right now." It's not too surprising that in times of turmoil we dare to dream. But what ...

From SEAN MCMANUS, Huffington Post,  12 Aug 2009

Sean McManus: Is it Time to Invent a New Masculinity?

Sean McManus is a writer, editor and video producer living in New York City There has been all this news recently about the rise of Japanese "Herbivore Boys," men who shun sex and dating, assume a feminine sartorial visage, and eschew their father's ...

From SEAN MCMANUS, Huffington Post,  12 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Michael Cera,  Hugh Dancy,  Jesse Eisenberg,  John Krasinski

Yearning For The Yuan

Are the Chinese finally getting serious about loosening their ties to the dollar—and even replacing the greenback with the yuan as the global economy's reserve currency? The evidence is mounting that they are. For the last two months, China's ...

From SEAN MCMANUS, Big Think,  29 May 2009

Weekend Reads: How to Get Your Mojo From Chip Conley

At the age of 26, with no industry experience, Chip Conley transformed a seedy San Francisco motel into The Phoenix, a world-renowned “rock ‘n roll hotel” catering to celebrities from David Bowie to Linda Ronstadt. Now you can learn how he did that—and ...

From SEAN MCMANUS, Big Think,  10 May 2009
Related Topics: David Bowie,  Linda Ronstadt

Weekend Reads: The Life and Times of Lynda Resnick

Lynda Resnick was only 19 years old when she founded a full-service advertising agency and is now the co-chairman of Roll International, the parent company of such lovable brands as POM Wonderful, Fiji Water and Teleflora. Now she has a new book. A ...

From SEAN MCMANUS, Big Think,  10 May 2009
Related Topics: Aspen Institute

Americans, Cars Seek Relationship Counseling

We are driving a lot less in this country, even less than one would have expected in a bad economy with fluctuating gas prices. The graph above charts 1) actual miles driven per capita in America during each January for the last thirty years and 2) how ...

From SEAN MCMANUS, Big Think,  8 May 2009

Founder of AIG Financial Products Has a Plan to Rescue Global Banking System

Howard Sosin was the kind of Wall Street dealmaker that flourished in the footloose days of the mid-80s. As the founder of AIG Financial Products, he invented many of the complex financial instruments blamed for changing the rules of risk and wrecking ...

From SEAN MCMANUS, Big Think,  8 May 2009
Related Topics: Hank Greenberg,  Paul Krugman

Making Stakeholder Capitalism Work

We look forward to including your voices on the site - and learning from you in the process. The editors The trouble with stakeholder capitalism isn't the theory itself but making it work in practice. How are managers supposed to balance ...

From SEAN MCMANUS, Big Think,  5 May 2009
Related Topics: Chrysler,  Barack Obama,  Citigroup

Does Chewing Gum Make You Smarter at Math?

Studies have suggested that something about chewing gum reduces stress, improves alertness and relieves anxiety. But most of this research has been found in a laboratory setting. Now, the first study in people also supports the idea that chewing gum ...

From SEAN MCMANUS, Big Think,  28 Apr 2009

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