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German carmaker Daimler has announced plans to put QR code stickers on its Mercedes-Benz vehicles, providing emergency personnel with valuable information that can be accessed via a smartphone at the scene.
My work with The Mission Continues is the greatest way that I can take care of the people that I served with.
There’s one institution in life where you get time off for good behavior and that’s prison.
A product doesn’t have to be perfect, but just good enough so it can be made perfect along the way.
When you believe in what you want to do and you put the concept of failure away the chances of success are even greater.
A few weeks ago my husband and I were out to dinner with some people. The table behind us was filled with eight young-ish women. They were having a bachelorette […]
Confronting addiction, we are forced to confront the truth, which is that we are not pure glowing creatures of free will.
How desperate can a city facing financial armageddon get? What’s the last resort for cities such as Detroit, wounded first by the failing American auto industry and then set bleeding […]
In a recently released report, an organization proposes that content owners be allowed to distribute software that could perform unpleasant actions on the computers of those caught downloading or viewing content illegally.
An idea whose time has come: A team of Australian designers has developed a game that can be installed on public transportation vehicles, allowing riders to play together during trips.
Deutsche Bahn wants to deploy the devices in order to reduce cleanup costs reported at $10 million annually. However, they may have to contend with a public that’s extra-sensitive to privacy issues.
While there has been some talk of the Chinese hacking the American military, most of dialogue surrounds private-sector theft: Negotiation strategies, new product blueprints, and the like.
The hard truth is this: With 3 percent of the world’s population, the US can no longer expect to run the world. This is because Asia, which has 60 percent of the global population, is no longer underperforming.
Locally owned cooperatives in the industries of groceries, banking, and insurance are quick becoming an alternative for Americans and changing the face of the nation’s local economies.
So I’ve been criticized for saying that our country is, more than ever, a meritocracy based on productivity. One of the threaders, in fact, said we’re a plutocracy based in […]
Economists say the deals are market distorting and the World Trade Organization already bans the use of offsets as a criterion for contract evaluation in all industries except defense.
While Europe is known to have nearly as much exploitable natural gas as the United States, its countries are far behind the curve set by American companies for fear of environmental pollution.
In hopes of FDA approval, the Dutch inventor Adriaan Tuiten is currently testing two different pills that work to increase feelings of sexual desire in women. In early trials, they are working.
New data on age and well-being suggests, despite conflicting conclusions reached by past studies, that happiness does generally increase as we get older.
Using a non-invasive infrared laser, scientists have found a way to control the growth of neurons and neuron circuits, essentially learning to rewire the brain, or even create a new one.
Nobel prize-winning behavioral psychologist Daniel Kahneman has found that people tend to prefer larger quantities of pain if the experience finishes with a slight decrease in pain.
Paying individuals more money has long been seen as an acceptable and effective way of motivating them to do better work, but recent research highlights the limits of money as motivator.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey released this image of workers at vertigo-inducing heights as they work to complete the “crown jewel of lower Manhattan,” One World Trade Center.
The poet Christian Wiman has written a careful, probing, and spiritual account of his rare, incurable and unpredictable cancer. His point of view is that of the modern day believer.
Last week, I published the first in a three-part dialogue between myself and the Danish psychotherapist Ole Vadum Dahl. In the article, Ole and I are exploring some of our […]
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University hope to begin testing an HIV vaccine on humans in just a few years, thanks to an innovative approach which helps the body’s immune system target the evasive virus.
While medical literature commonly identifies race as an independent risk factor for certain diseases, such an emphasis may obfuscate the search for more significant causes of illness.
If you are young and healthy, then obesity, which causes problems in 15 or 20 years, is relevant. With age, though, the balance may tip in favor of extra weight to fight ill health.
Matthew Hankins over at Psychologically Flawed has harvested an amusing list of quotes from studies that failed to find a significant result: a borderline significant trend (p=0.09) a clear trend […]