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Khan Academy Enters Next Era With iPad App

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

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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"

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The perils of sleep deprivation

One-third of Americans are getting less sleep than they should, and the health effects can be life-threatening

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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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