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Happiness has to be allowed.
What is the difference between happy people and unhappy people? Of course, it may be very obvious, happy people are happy while unhappy people are unhappy, right? Well, that is correct, but we want to know what are the things that these people do differently and that is why, I have [...]
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Ancient people ate far differently than we do.
While we may brush and floss tirelessly and our dentists may regularly scrape and pick at our teeth to minimize the formation of plaque known as tartar or dental calculus, anthropologists may be rejoicing at the fact that past civilizations were not so careful with their dental hygiene…
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Futurist Thomas Frey: As a Futurist, people often ask me how many of my predictions have come true. I find this to be a rather uncomfortable question. It’s uncomfortable, not because my track record hasn’t been up to par (actually, a high percentage have come true), but because accuracy of predictions [...]
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Jogging regularly can add years to your life.
Jogging regularly may help you live longer, a new study from Denmark suggests. The study finds that women who regularly jogged lived 5.6 years longer than women who didn’t, and men who jogged lived 6.2 years longer than those who didn’t.
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E-mail causes stress at work.
Your email could be killing you!
The University of California, Irvine and United States Army researchers released a new study on Thursday which found that people who do not look at e-mail on a regular basis at work are less stressed and more productive.
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The Obama Administration’s plan to spread the country’s wealth around has made its way to struggling technology entrepreneurs. This past Tuesday, the Small Business Administration (SBA) began accepting applications for the $200 Million “Early Stage Innovation Fund.” The new fund will allow venture funds to augment privately raised capitol with a grant up to a [...]
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The pay gap between U.S. CEOs and average workers is higher than anywhere else in the developed world.
In the U.S. the average chief executive earned more than $11 million last year in salary, stock options and other compensation. new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found. That’s around 231 times more than average [...]
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Savor every moment
Tony Schwartz has written a blog on the Harvard Business Review that is brilliant and insightful. His reflections are good reminders of important life lessons for everyone to practice.
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Tired of the near-impossiblehassle of figuring out how to sideload web content onto his ereader, designer Ishac Bertran conceived of a UI design—inspired by spatially-aware objects such as Sifteo cubes—which would allow him to easily transfer content to devices.
This obviously isn’t for the mass offloading of files (you’d be holding your hand up for what [...]
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LaGuardia Airport tops the list of the worst airports in the U.S.
What you will find in America’s worst airports are outdated infrastructure, overcrowding, chronic delays, and demoralized staff, according to readers of Travel + Leisure.
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Brain scans can show the difference between ”go-getters” and ‘’slackers”.
Scientists have identified neural pathways that appear to influence an individual’s willingness to work hard to earn money. Lazy people who prefer to live off others may have brains that are wired for under-achievement, according to a new study.
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Energy drink habit among teens is causing irreversible damage to teeth as the high acidity levels in the drinks erode tooth enamel.
Scientists have warned that teenagers’ love of energy drinks is taking a terrible toll on their teeth. A study published in the Academy of General Dentistry charted an alarming increase in the consumption of [...]
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Doc Searls says our current ‘attention economy’ should be switched to an ‘intention economy’.
Every day companies are spending gobs of money to earn and keep your attention. Advertisers are collecting heaps of information about you in the hopes of presenting you with more targeted advertisements: advertisements on which you’ll want to click. Yet despite all [...]
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How does power get from there to here?
Electricity is generated at power plants. You know that already. But to really understand how it gets to your house—and why you can count on it getting there reliably—you have to understand that our electric system is more complicated than it looks. The electric grid isn’t just about [...]
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Forty-eight percent of the time, drivers either neglect to use their signals when changing lanes or fail to turn the signals off.
A new study finds a more serious problem than distracted driving that’s responsible for as many as 2 million accidents annually.
