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Nonprofit Music Unites founder Michelle Edgar describes her journey from a music-loving magazine intern to Director of Branding for Warner Bros. Music and creator of a charity that gets kids off the streets and into a real studio to record their first songs

Communication problems aside, Netflix's decision to break apart the business is part two of its plan for the future, a company spokesperson tells Fast Company. Netflix's announcement that it is splitting its DVD service off into an entirely new business may have some wondering if that decision was a reaction to all the negative response to the announcement earlier this summer that it was raising rates on its hybrid DVD-streaming business

A new project from 350.org lets people fill in the blank spots in their city with potential exciting improvements. If you were paying attention in New York this past weekend, you might have noticed signs plastered to telephone poles, buidlings, and fences. They're requesting that something--a green roof, a bike lane, a urban farm--be "inserted" at the site

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By now you probably know that Netflix is splitting its business into two parts: its digital streaming business (retains the name Netflix) and its DVD mailing business, which was its original business (to be called Qwikster). If you haven't read Reed's explanation of this split make sure you read it (of course, after you're done with this post here . It's simply brilliant.

A new study by the University of Maryland, looking at the vast ecosystem of

People appear to be more concerned with their sexual health on Mondays than any other day of the week, a new Danish study suggests.

It's not just the so-called "Post-PC" era that is kicking the backsides of Microsoft, HP, and Dell; it's the dramatic shift in the server market too. While Microsoft continues to dominate the enterprise server market with 71 percent of new sales worldwide (according to second-quarter figures for 2011), the Web server market is a different story.

The toxic gas extraction isn't going away any time soon, but a new company has developed an enzyme that cleans up at least one of the poisonous problems of the process. There's no denying that hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is a dirty business. The process can pollute groundwater with toxic chemicals, potentially cause earthquakes, and release methane (a potent greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere.

Chevy Volts currently cost upwards of $30,000, but to make EVs truly mainstream, that price has to come down. A team of German engineers is looking at every step of EV manufacturing to do just that

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Some blister packs were rotated 180 degrees, defective packaging may cause women to take the incorrect birth control dose

Fourteen percent of teens who had physical activity education quit smoking, according to West Virginia study