The great economist Gordon Tullock passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Along with his longtime collaborator, Nobel Prize winner James Buchanan, Tullock was one of the founders of public choice […]
Founder of Public Choice Theory Passes Away
The Fountain of Funding
“Start-up Fundraising In 15 Steps ” by Oliver Gajda In this article you will find 15 steps and an introduction, no more, that will help you considering venture capital and how to go about […]
New Director General For CERN
This morning Cern council selected Fabiola Gianotti as the organisation’s next director general. The appointment will be formalised at the December session of council, and Dr Gianotti’s mandate will begin on 1 […]
Struggle for Science in Africa
Ebola Outbreak Highlights Struggle for Science in Africa and Inequalities in Global Health Research by Tamer Fouad, MD As authorities scramble to contain the spread of Ebola, it helps to take a step […]
Why Female Executives Don’t Like To Dine Alone When On Business Trip
The below story comes from a top tier female executive working for a world renowned multinational requiring her to travel abroad several times a month. Dear FLI, Personally, as a business person travelling […]
‘What Color Is Your Parachute?’ Is Still Going Strong After 40 Years
Richard Bolles does not mince words. “Let us put the matter simply and candidly,” he writes. “The whole process of the job hunt in this country is Neanderthal.” That assertion is from […]
What It Will Take to Become an Interstellar Civilsation
The new movie “Interstellar” is set in a not-so-distant future, but distant enough that they’ve managed to build something still elusive in 2014: a spaceship that can travel between solar systems. Such […]
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Spacecraft Crashes During Test Flight
Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space plane SpaceShipTwo suffered a serious malfunction during a rocket-powered test flight over Mojave, California, today (Oct. 31) resulting in the loss of the spacecraft. One of the two […]
History of Halloween
Halloween is the season for little ghosts and goblins to take to the streets, asking for candy and scaring one another silly. Spooky stories are told around fires, scary movies appear in […]
Genetic Factors Behind Surviving or Dying From Ebola Shown In Mouse Study
A newly developed mouse model suggests that genetic factors are behind the mild-to-deadly range of reactions to the Ebola virus. People exposed to Ebola vary in how the virus affects them. Some […]
SpaceX’s Dragon Cargo Spaceship Returns to Earth
A private SpaceX Dragon capsule dropped into the Pacific Ocean today (Oct. 25, 2014), returning almost 2 tons of cargo and science experiments to Earth from the International Space Station. The unmanned […]
Sport & Gender: A History of Bad Science & ‘Biological Racism’
Having become the first Indian sprinter to reach a final at a global athletics event in 2013, the 18-year-old was already the national champion at 100m and 200m, and an Asian Games […]
Notebook From Antarctic Explorer’s Last Expedition Found Encased In Ice
A notebook from the last expedition of legendary British explorer Robert F. Scott was found encased in ice in an Antarctic hut, according to the Antarctic Heritage Trust. The notebook belonged to […]
American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist
Are Americans getting dumber? Our math skills are falling. Our reading skills are weakening. Our children have become less literate than children in many developed countries. But the crisis in American education […]
The Future Leadership Institute 