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Reframing The Global Economy To Include Happiness. It’s always an honor to be invited to join a head of state to tackle global problems. But it’s rare that anything comes of it. Last February I was surprised to receive an invitation from the Royal Government of Bhutan to join His Excellency, Jigmi Thinley, the Bhutanese Prime Minister and more than 600 leaders from civil society, business, governments, academic institutions and global experts for a high-level meeting at the United Nations on happiness and well-being. On April 2, as I arrived in New York, it was clear that the Bhutanese are competent, far more than typical UN functionaries. They excel at hospitality and I believe they’re serious about making the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH) amount to something.

From being presented with a strikingly beautiful little pin of a Bhutanese flower for my jacket to the Prime Minister’s kickass opening and closing speeches, the Bhutanese did it right. And they assembled a stellar cast to help them. Yeah, this is serious stuff. Learn From Unconventional Entrepreneurs: Help Others And Do What You Love. Some of us enjoy taking our cues from a boss in an office. Others like Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future, published on May 8th, favor a different approach. The 34-year-old high school drop out--he did manage to squeeze out a master’s in International Studies--just wasn’t a great employee.

“I wanted to keep my own schedule and set my own rules,” says Guillebeau. So after selling coffee on eBay and doing other odd jobs around the turn of the millennium, Guillebeau got serious. The $100 Startup features “unexpected entrepreneurs,” like Selena Cuffe whose Heritage Link Brands helps support black-owned vineyards in South Africa and Mr. Co.Exist: Why is now the time to create a microbusiness? Guillebeau: People have been creating microbusinesses for a long time. Your book features all these “ordinary” individuals who got started accidentally--often without a formal business plan. Open Design Now | Why design cannot remain exclusive. Inthetreeswetrust. The Fun Theory. BCI-biomimicry - Resources. Il principio antropico - torinoscienza.it.

Finalmente la casa editrice Adelphi, che già in passato si è dimostrata particolarmente sensibile ai temi proposti dal cosmologo Barrow (è possibile trovare nel catlogo Adelphi altri suoi titoli dal "sapore" più o meno antropico come , e ), affronta l'impresa che di sicuro ha un forte valore storico. Infatti la sua pubblicazione costituisce uno degli ultimi, ma forse ancora possibili, casi di culturale che, in quanto tale, guida l'ardito lettore attraverso tutti gli aspetti più importanti del nostro sapere rivisitati alla luce di questo principio. Un'operazione senz'altro onesta in quanto, se di paradigma si tratta, deve comunque risultare applicabile all'astrofisica, alla biologia, alla meccanica quantistica, per citare solo alcuni degli ambiti con i quali si sono misurati gli autori fra le pagine del libro, nel tentativo di mostrare la consistenza di una visione del mondo che tenta di restituire all'uomo una posizione centrale nel progetto cosmico.

Il giornale di Astronomia. Design mind | business. technology. design. John David Barrow. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. John David Barrow (Londra, 29 novembre 1952) è un cosmologo inglese, professore di matematica all'Università di Cambridge. Biografia[modifica | modifica sorgente] Nel 2006 è stato insignito del Premio Templeton per "i suoi scritti sulla relazione tra la vita e l'universo, e sulla natura della consapevolezza umana [che] ha prodotto nuove prospettive sulle questioni centrali riguardo alla scienza e alla religione". Per il teatro ha scritto lo spettacolo Infinities (2002) che ha esordito al Teatro Piccolo di Milano, poi a Valencia, conseguendo il Premio teatrale Ubu 2002 come spettacolo dell'anno. Opere principali[modifica | modifica sorgente] La mano sinistra della creazione (con Joseph Silk) - Mondadori, 1985Il mondo dentro il mondo - Adelphi, 1991Teorie del Tutto.

Voci correlate[modifica | modifica sorgente] Altri progetti[modifica | modifica sorgente] Collegamenti esterni[modifica | modifica sorgente] (EN) Pagina personale di John D. Teoria del tutto. Theosophy article: "The Life Principle" by Blavatsky. A FEW years back a very interesting controversy raged between several scientists of reputation. Some of these held that spontaneous generation was a fact in nature, whilst others proved the contrary; to the effect that, as far as experiments went, there was found to be biogenesis, or generation of life from previously existing life, and never the production of any form of life from non-living matter. An erroneous assumption was made in the first instance that heat, equal to the boiling point of water, destroyed all life organisms; but by taking hermetically sealed vessels containing infusions, and subjecting them to such or a greater degree of heat, it was shown that living organisms did appear even after the application of so much heat.

Along with the fact of biogenesis, we must note, however, Mr. Tracing life downwards we ultimately reach "protoplasm," called by Huxley "the physical basis of life," a colourless, jelly-like substance, absolutely homogeneous without parts or structure. Anthropic principle. Nobel Peace Price. Why Curation? Maxima1. Biomimicry 3.8. Change&innovation. 7 Questions to Assess Your Business Model Design. Ultimately, customers are the only relevant judges of your business model. However, even before you test your model in the market, you can assess its design with 7 questions that go well beyond the conventional focus on products and market segments. First things first. In order to assess your business model you should sketch it out on the Business Model Canvas outlined in the video below.

If you want to know more about the Canvas and how to use it you can read Business Model Generation of which 70 pages are available for free on our website. Assessing the basics Every business model has a product and/or service at its center that focuses on a customer’s job-to-be-done. First, ask yourself how well your Value Proposition is getting your target customer’s job done. That’s it as to the basics. 1. The time, effort, or budget a customer has to spend to switch from one product or service provider to another is called “switching costs”. 2. An impressive example of scalability is Facebook. 3. Connect. Inspire. Transform. BCI-biomimicry - About us. Future-proofing needs collaboration, innovation, education and inspiration | Guardian Sustainable Business. Make no mistake, the transformation from a firm of the past to a firm of the future is challenging, especially while operating amid of a perfect storm of social, economic and environmental volatility.

Successful transformation requires courage, not fear. The more we understand and explore our own business environments and wider business ecosystems (as well as our own inner motives and values) the more we find pathways for success – learning through doing, growth through experience, success through failure. Looking around us in nature and human nature, we find enablers to assist us; catalysts which aid and optimise the transformational journey. Four primary catalysts for transformation are: collaboration, innovation, education and inspiration. Collaboration There has been much written recently about collaboration and co-operation. Of course there has been, and always will be competition in life, yet evolution benefits far more from collaboration than it does from competition. Innovation. Projects | Open Knowledge Foundation. Predictive Analytics Using Agent-based Modeling | Icosystem.

Topologia. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Storia[modifica | modifica wikitesto] I sette ponti di Königsberg, uno dei primi problemi topologici L'antenata della topologia è la geometria antica. L'articolo di Eulero del 1736 sui Sette ponti di Königsberg [1] è visto come uno dei primi risultati che non dipendono da alcun tipo di misura, vale a dire uno dei primi risultati topologici. Georg Cantor, l'inventore della teoria degli insiemi, iniziò a studiare la teoria degli insiemi di punti nello spazio euclideo verso la fine del XIX secolo. Maurice Fréchet, unificando il lavoro sugli spazi di funzioni di Cantor, Vito Volterra, Arzelà, Hadamard, Ascoli e altri, nel 1906 introdusse il concetto di spazio metrico[3]. Nel 1914 Felix Hausdorff, generalizzando la nozione di spazio metrico, coniò il termine di spazio topologico e definì quello che oggi è detto spazio di Hausdorff[4]. Finalmente, nel 1922 Kuratovskij, con una ulteriore lieve generalizzazione, fornì il concetto odierno di spazio topologico. .

In e. Smart Swarm by Peter Miller – 10 Lessons. Pervasive Entertainment Times. The nature of technology: what it is ... - Google Libri. EduMOOC: Online Learning Today... and Tomorrow. Program and Resources Expanding Daily! Visit Often for Updates! The gadget spec URL could not be found The Center for Online Learning, Research and Service at the University of Illinois Springfield welcomes you to a Massive Open Online Class (MOOC) on “Online Learning Today...and Tomorrow.” It will continue through August 19. You are invited to register (see right column) with only your name and email address so you can be given access to all materials, panels and discussions.

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Crowdsource. Home | InnoCentive. Il Nostro Approccio. Presentazione approfondita del Framework di The Natural Step Se hai già familiarità con il concetto di sostenibilità e con il Framework di The Natural Step e stai cercando degli approfondimenti, sei nel posto giusto. Il Framework di the Natural Step rappresenta l’applicazione pratica di un modello a 5 livelli per lo sviluppo sostenibile strategico. The Natural Step da più di vent’anni si è resa conto che, per evitare di perdersi nei dettagli dei singoli problemi di natura ambientale, sociale ed economica, è necessario assumere una prospettiva che consenta di vedere l’intero sistema dall’alto, il nostro pianeta (si veda la metafora dell’albero che spiega il concetto di pensiero sistemico). Il consenso scientifico sulla prospettiva di alto livello del nostro sistema (la società umana all’interno della biosfera), permette di identificare le condizioni che definiscono il successo nel nostro sistema.

La Scienza che supporta il nostro Approccio Nulla scompare Tutto si diffonde. Fractal Navigator. The Evolution of Consiousness. Knowing Knowledge - Google Libri. Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines, Kellert. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (/ˈmiːhaɪ ˌtʃiːksɛntməˈhaɪ.iː/ MEE-hy CHEEK-sent-mə-HY-ee; Hungarian: Csíkszentmihályi Mihály Hungarian: [ˈtʃiːksɛntmihaːji ˈmihaːj] ( ); born (1934-09-29) 29 September 1934 (age 79), in Fiume, Italy – now Rijeka, Croatia, Europe) is a Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22.

Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. [citation needed] Work[edit] Personal background[edit] Csikszentmihalyi received his B.A. in 1960 and his PhD in 1965, both from the University of Chicago.[4] Csikszentmihalyi is the father of Art Center College of Design Professor Christopher Csikszentmihalyi and University of California - Berkeley[5] professor of philosophical and religious traditions of China and East Asia, Mark Csikszentmihalyi.

Flow[edit] Motivation[edit] Publications[edit] See also[edit] Finding flow: the psychology of ... The Nature of Emotions.