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Simple things like taking the time to answer emails and tweets personally can go a long way to building good will, says Peter Shankman, founder of HARO. [twistage 648efc7b7fd80] For more bite-sized bits of wisdom on leadership and strategies for success, explore our ongoing video series at
Read More »How to Be a Visionary Thinker
Are you bringing home the paycheck of your dreams? You can get paid well for doing what you love when you tap into the visionary within. When we entrepreneurs talk about "the dream," we are not talking about a fantasy, like winning the lottery.
Read More »8 Signs of an Extraordinary Boss
The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right
Read More »Gary Vaynerchuk’s Secrets to Social Media
In 1997, Gary Vaynerchuk launched Winelibrary.com, and helped grow his family business from $3 million to $60 million in seven years. Here he explains marketing in an Internet world.
Read More »Art HK 12 Delivers Works from the World’s Leading Galleries
The Hong Kong International Art Fair started strong in 2008 and never lost momentum. Its fifth edition, dubbed Art HK 12 and running from May 17 through 20 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, boasts more than 260 exhibiting galleries from all over the world, including venerable New ...
Read More »Complex Cognac
It takes both confidence and pride to launch an hors d’age Cognac—especially one blended with eaux-de-vie ranging from 30 to 50 years—without any labels or other identifying markings on its crystal decanter. But that is exactly what Cyril Camus, fifth generation of the last family-owned Cognac house in France, has ...
Read More »Chemotherapy without hair loss? Cooling cap in works
Chemo hood may prevent hair loss, study in progress
Read More »Khan Academy and 23andMe Link Up For Genetics Education
Khan Academy and Google-backed personal genomics company 23andMe are partnering to teach the world about genomes and DNA. Khan Academy has added two series of videos made by 23andMe to its roster of educational clips. Appropriately enough, the two announced their partnership today, National DNA Day , a day the National Human Genome Research Institute created to mark two momentous events in genetics research: the day in 1953 when James Watson and Francis Crick revealed their work on DNA structure to the world, and the day in 2003 when it was announced that the Human Genome Project was almost complete.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Robots In Space, The Sack, And Other Challenging Places
Bot Vid: The Naval Robot That Fights Fires The Navy has a big plan to put smart gesture-controlled bipedla firebots onto ships. These droids are able to scramble through compartments designed for human access, so they'd be invaluable in a crisis, and they can handle fires that humans cannot. The plan needs much research, and the Octavia bot shows a step along the way.
Read More »Will home drug tests help kids say no to pot on 4/20?
Non-profit hands out home drug tests to stop kids from smoking - How should parents talk to their teens about drugs?
Read More »Video: Chemo hood may prevent hair-loss
Chemo therapy without losing your hair may soon be possible according to an ongoing study in Germany that has recorded positive results. Felipe Maya reports.
Read More »Video: Chemo hood may prevent hair-loss
Chemo therapy without losing your hair may soon be possible according to an ongoing study in Germany that has recorded positive results.
Read More »Are antibiotics in meat bad for humans?
Antibiotics may cure infections in livestock, but some experts say it may hurt people who eat the meat
Read More »Are antibiotics in meat bad for humans?
Antibiotics may cure infections in livestock, but some experts say it may hurt people who eat the meat
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