(MIME) My Internet Marketing Expert
By Alice Lighton of Nature magazine Shortly after the Second World War, the Swedish government conducted a vast social experiment to decide whether to implement educational reform. [More]
Archives
A Job-Hopper Settles Down On The Farm, With Twitter
Alison Kosakowski, a 33-year-old former New York City brand planner turned dairy farm blogger, now helps farmers use social media to market themselves and share their unglamorous but rewarding reality. In 2009, Alison Kosakowki was living in New York, working as communications manager at the Maersk shipping company, when a kidnapping at sea brought her to Vermont. The captain of the Maersk Alabama, Richard Phillips, had been kidnapped by Somali pirates; Kosakowski was dispatched to Phillips’s home in Underhill, Vermont, to help the family handle media during the weeklong crisis, the wait for Phillips’s return, and the barrage of interview requests and book deals in the aftermath
Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Recorded In Octopus DNA
Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Wutsje/CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world’s oceans from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents. Antarctic species , such as Turquet’s octopuses ( Pareledone turqueti ), even live slow, quiet lives near the South Pole . But these retiring creatures offer a rare opportunity to help understand how this extreme part of the Earth has changed in recent geologic times and what climate change might bring there in the near future.
‘Swamp People’ star dies
Mitchell Guist, a star of the reality TV show “Swamp People,” died Monday in Louisiana.
How Neuroscientists and Magicians Are Conjuring Brain Insights
Apollo Robbins (right) in action removing the wristwatch of Mariette DiChristina. (Credit: Flip Phillips.) I see you have a watch with a buckle. Standing at my side, Apollo Robbins held my wrist lightly as he turned my hand over and back.
$50 Million Lost To Online Romance Scammers Annually
A just-released report shows how fake debt collectors, fake state troopers, and fake soulmates are responsible for a new wave of highly complicated online scams.
Gas-Rich States Lose Fracking Lottery
By Joan Gralla (Reuters) – While Pennsylvania, northwestern Louisiana and gas-rich areas around the Gulf of Mexico are losing jobs and revenue as the fracking industry shrinks after a price collapse, oil-rich North Dakota and Texas are in the midst of a boom. Other winners in the fracking lottery include central and southern Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and Wyoming, where the economy is expanding and revenues are climbing.
Study: Smoking pot may ease pain, muscle spasms in people with multiple sclerosis
Patients smoking marijuana scored lower on multiple sclerosis spasticity tests – but also performed worse on cognitive tests
Video: Hidden dangers of sippy cups
Practically all young children in the United States use bottles, sippy cups or pacifiers, but they may not be as safe as parents think. Bigad Shaban reports
American Express Leverages Spending History, Location For Mobile Deals You Actually Care About
My Offers taps what AmEx calls the “spend graph” to give cardmembers access to deals and discounts at nearby merchants. And it knows your mom couldn’t care less about getting 50% off tickets to a three-day electro-fest
