Toward the end of every year, the New York Times publishes a magazine dedicated to interesting ideas of the past 12 months. It's a wide-ranging list, with lots of things you'd never think about. Here were my favorites from this year:
* Randomly promoting people gives better results than the system you have.
* Printable batteries. And you thought e-ink was pretty impressive.
* Older workers are just as productive. Equally important: age-mixed workforces outperform homogeneous ones. So don't staff that start-up with just college kids!
* What Google search teaches us about species preservation.
* Your yearbook photo predicts your likelihood of divorce.
* "I will regard the experiment as a success," he wrote, "if [comments on my blog] leads to anything that could count as genuine progress toward an understanding of the problem." Six weeks later, the theorem was proved.
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