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What would 1,000 Americans tell President Bush about Iraq if they could sit down with our commander-in-chief for 15 minutes? Gallup has the answer.

Attention, New Yorkers: My first post-Labor Day public foray will take place next week, Sept. 8, at 7pm at New York Law School. The event — an on-stage, Actors’ Studio-style conversation about A Whole New Mind with Professor Seth Harris — is part of the school’s excellent Labor and Employment Law Program. The gathering is

Wired News (via AP) has a story about the latest research of Richard Nisbett, the University of Michigan social psychologist whose work is mentioned briefly in AWNM. “Shown a photograph, North American students of European background paid more attention to the object in the foreground of a scene, while students from China spent more time

Several people have emailed to alert me that Amazon.com says it’ll take “1 to 3 weeks” to get a copy of A Whole New Mind. Thanks for the heads-up, everyone. But fear not. In response to the demand (at Amazon and elsewhere), Riverhead has ordered yet another healthy printing of the book — and Amazon

I’m on vacation — or at least what passes for vacation for someone who is self-employed and has three children under age 9. (For instance, I can’t go anywhere without spending a little time flapping my lips about A Whole New Mind.) I’ll begin posting here again in a few days.

The Big Moo is coming.

NEWSFLASH: Money magazine says we’re becoming, uh, a Free Agent Nation!

Today’s must-read is Paul Graham’s essay, “What Business Can Learn From Open Source.” Some choice nuggets: — “I suspect professionalism was always overrated — not just in the literal sense of working for money, but also connotations like formality and detachment. Inconceivable as it would have seemed in, say, 1970, I think professionalism was largely

The Economist examines why people laugh, a topic I explore in Chapter 8 of A Whole New Mind during a visit to an early morning laughter yoga session (pictured here) in Mumbai, India.

For more evidence of the business opportunities in the abundance gap, watch the ever-savvy Steve Case. His new investment fund, called Revolution, has just sunk $20 million into Gaiam, a company that makes and distributes yoga and Pilates videos. (Confession: Our household owns two Rodney Yee DVDs.) The investment, says today’s Washington Post, is part