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Offline learning is the latest tool for the unorthodox education organization. Here's how that and other new features will power Khan Academy's new app. Khan Academy , the wildly popular YouTube lecture series, is slated to launch its iPad app any minute now in Apple's store
Read More »A world of pain
Activists say 80% of world's population with little or no access to morphine are the "collateral damage of the war on drugs"
Read More »The perils of sleep deprivation
One-third of Americans are getting less sleep than they should, and the health effects can be life-threatening
Read More »Dave McClure on Lean Start-up Investing
Dave McClure, the brash-mouthed angel investor and entrepreneur-magnet, shares his lean start-up philosophy and his excitement about female entrepreneurs. The premier session of South by Southwest's "Lean Startup" track was a frank discussion between Lean Startup guru Eric Ries and Dave McClure, founding partner and "Sith Lord" of investment firm 500 Startups . While the talk covered material fairly similar to what Ries discussed in the October issue of Inc.
Read More »2 Start-ups at SXSW Trying to Disrupt the Economy
Location-based apps are this year's SXSW GroupMe and Twitter. Zaarly and LocalMind are two to put on your radar
Read More »Video: Is there such a thing as a divorce gene?
A new study says that some women have a gene that makes them more prone to bad relationships and detachment from partners. Rebecca Jarvis and James Brown discuss this with Dr. Ian Smith.
Read More »Weekend Reading: The LulzSec Indictment
The whimsical seeming but real mayhem causing group and one of its prominent alleged members just got slapped with a federal indictment. ... Because you don't have any real plans, right
Read More »Study: Suicide rates among army soldiers up 80 percent
Psychiatrist Joseph Hullet says more active combat situations makes returning Iraq, Afghanistan veterans more at risk for PTSD, mental disorders
Read More »Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity
By tossing the two-week standard in favor of an honor system with unlimited time off, some companies are seeing an exponential rise in productivity. Now, they just have to be mindful of staff burnout
Read More »Peyton Manning’s Lessons In Career Strategy
This week, the Indianapolis Colts released four-time MVP quarterback Peyton Manning to look for work with another NFL team.
Read More »How To Bring Out The Magic In Marketing
Whether you're trying to sell whisky or get people to adopt dogs, marketing can be magical when there's a deep understanding of both an organization's culture and its strategic needs. There’s been a back and forth on Fast Company of late, regarding corporate culture versus strategy
Read More »Women’s stroke risk reduced with glass of alcohol each day: Study
Study of 84,000 women found fewer stroke incidences among light to moderate drinkers
Read More »Doctors: Manning’s issue arm strength, not neck
If neck fusion solid, doctors say QB Peyton Manning safe to continue NFL career but arm strength may not be same
Read More »How to Win a Start-up Competition
Investors reveal what grabs their attention--and what makes them cringe. For a certain kind of tech start-up founder, the pitch contest offers a thrill that few other events can deliver: You have only a few terror-filled minutes to successfully demo your product (using shaky wi-fi, no less) in front of a firing line of judges who can—and will—find holes in your idea big enough to drive a truck through. I've spent the last two days camped out at this year's Launch Festival , a tech start-up competition in San Francisco founded by entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis, where more than 40 start-ups competed for more than $1 million in prizes and seed capital.
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