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In Memory of Spock: Live Long and Prosper; Is He or Isn't He? Fish Tomatoes, Hand Transplants, Sci-Fi vs. Reality

MishTalk

Vulcan Greeting Nimoy Explains Origin of Vulcan Greeting Link if video does not play: Leonard Nimoy Explains Origin of Vulcan Greeting. In an enclosed video in the above link, Nimoy talks with Ira Flatow, physics professor John Kramer, and science fiction writer Robert Sawyer about the relationship between science and science fiction.

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So Many M&A Deals Fail Because Companies Overlook This Simple Strategy

Harvard Business

Contrast this with another well-known deal: When eBay bought Skype, eBay executives implicitly thought that video chat belonged somewhere on the journey their customers experienced, and that eBay would be granted permission to offer this extension to its core offering.

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5 Steps to Disrupt and Improve Your Talent Pipeline

Organizational Talent Consulting

Today this stems from rapid advances in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced materials, and genomics. The following video from MIT Sloan provides some insight into an explanation for this increase in the pace of change. These changes are driving additional change.

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