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Entrepreneurship: The right stuff ideastream: On an episode of The Sound of Ideas this week, Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor of design and innovation, discussed why Northeast Ohio is an area ripe for entrepreneurship.

More than half of Cleveland kids live in poverty, and it's making them sick The Plain Dealer: Census data found 54 percent of Cleveland children live in poverty, and research shows poor children are much more likely to be sick. Claudia Coulton, co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and…

Order vs. disorder, part 4 The New York Times: In an opinion piece by Thomas Friedman, Mark Mykleby, a retired Marine colonel and co-director of the Strategic Innovation Lab at Case Western Reserve, discussed “containment”—a military strategy to stem disorder. “In the case of Gaza,” he said, “the…

Mississippi Charles Bevel, Zadie Smith & Alex Bevan ideastream: On an episode of The Sound of Ideas, author Zadie Smith discussed her appearance as part of the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation Writer’s Center Stage Series. Hers was the first lecture of the program and took place at…

How to build a startup economy in six lessons Mooctivity: Visiting assistant professor of design and innovation Michael Goldberg talked about his upcoming Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, in a recent Q&A. The course, which begins Oct. 3, will cover, in part, the important people and…

People pleasing: Short-term benefits and long-term costsPsychology Today: Julie Exline, associate professor of psychology, blogged about the downside of people-pleasing and gave tips to help avoid falling into these tendencies. “In the long run, then, challenging some of those people-pleasing…

Practice does not make perfectSlate.com: A meta-analysis by assistant professor of psychology Brooke Macnamara and her colleagues debunked, or at least qualified, the famous 10,000-hours rule, which states that 10,000 hours of practice are needed to master a skill.

Starbucks co-founder Zev Siegl coming to Cleveland to talk 'starting right': the Mix The Plain Dealer: Zev Siegl, co-founder of Starbucks, will tell his story and provide insight during a talk onThursday, Oct. 2, at 6 p.m. at the Tinkham Veale University Center. The talk, titled “Right From the…

Bikes abandoned on college campus give boost to the less fortunate: Breaking the cycleThe Plain Dealer: Earlier this year, Case Western Reserve University gave about 75 bikes to the City Mission in Cleveland. Matt Jereb, assistant director for residential facilities, talked about why so many…

Paralyzed rats take 1,000 steps, orchestrated by computerMIT Technology Review: Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Institute Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, discussed the future of epidural stimulation technology. He said that paralyzed patients want to control their own movements,…