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I got out of college right at the wrong time when the economy was going down. It was a lot like today.
I always like to drink something that hydrates me at the same time because I usually forget to drink water.
Your client’s expectations about technology tend to come from his or her experience as a consumer.
In this video, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez explains some of the science behind ice cream.
In 2004, the UK thought it had found a suitable compromise to legalizing same-sex marriage. But civil partnerships, which are equal to marriage in every legal respect, have become insufficient.
The dollar is gaining in value relative to other world currencies, which economists say is due to several very recent changes in the economy as well as long-term growth in the national economy.
Tech research firm Gartner has coined the phrase “citizen developer” to describe the growing number of programmers whose skills came from outside the university environment.
Now with more than 3,000 subscribers from across the US and Canada, Call in the Night “attempts to wake people mid-dream so they can be recorded talking about what was happening during their REM cycle.”
In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany quickly declared that it would phase out nuclear power as a domestic energy source. But now, many of its citizens are crying foul.
League of Legends developer Riot Games has successfully convinced the government to offer players the same kind of visa normally given to athletes to allow them to compete in American tournaments.
Maybe it’s time for a DIY rethink: Nathan Broadbent’s “Raspberry Picrowave” accepts voice commands, emits custom sounds, can cook food via a product barcode scan, and can be controlled via a browser or mobile app.
In order to combat traffic jams and choking pollution, China will attempt to decrease the amount of cars in its major cities by imposing stricter limits on automobile purchases.
Obstacles are beginning to emerge in China’s massive urbanization plan, which will see 250 million farmers migrate from rural settings to urban population centers over the next decade.
There is no circumstance that people could possibly contrive for ourselves which would constitute “having it all”.
A little bit of game theory suggests how Edward Snowden’s odyssey might end.
Every company has both information and knowledge. What’s the difference? Knowledge is something that’s actionable and that generates value for the receiver. Information, on the other hand, is not actionable. […]
Here is a brilliant column by 11-year old Olympia Nelson on provocative selfie shots on social media. It’s valuable to hear this world described from the vantage point of someone […]
Murder, they wrote. The suspect? Media mogul, sports agent, and rapper Jay-Z. The victim? Performance art. The accomplices? Performance artists!? When Jay-Z decided to shoot the video for his song […]
Japanese scientists have found that listening to sad music may actually evoke positive emotions, even though the experience of sadness itself is widely considered to be negative emotion.
Making the leap from renting to buying isn’t always what it seems. Homeowners spend less time on leisure activities with friends and report that they derived some pain from homeownership.
Opposition to the ideas of others is too often framed in terms of cynicism, resulting in the objector being labeled as steadfastly against action, progress, change, and other forms taken to be universally good.
New research completed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a specific gene that may help manage our skill level for organizing things logically.
More important than the effect power has on its beholder is the person’s intentions, outlook and values. That power corrupts tells us more about the person who held it than about an indelible nature of power.
The history lesson in Zimmerman’s acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin
Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close your posture off to the world also close your attention, weakening you ability to engage the world around you.
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that air pollution, caused by fine particles capable of penetrating deep into the lungs, is responsible for 2.1 million deaths annually.
Reincarnation is bunk.
Even using unqualified life expectancy figures, the US is falling behind other nations, but we should not be blinded by our attempt to increase longevity without a concern for quality of life.
All that it takes to cope with the death of a loved one is the philosophical habit of turning easily understood ideas into the more difficult practice of how you perceive the world day by day.