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Two weeks ago I was at Science Online 2012, the annual conference for science bloggers and writers in Raleigh, NC. While there, I attended the session on Blogging Science While Female (a more detailed summary of the session can be found here ). At the session, many of the women in the room expressed discouragement at how many comments they have received that, while seemingly complimentary, somehow still felt wrong

With a $5,000 monthly budget, Buyosphere cofounder Tara Hunt has a dilemma. How would you spend it? When I landed a job at my first start-up I wasn't given a marketing budget.

Can you hear what your appearance is whispering to you?

Don't let big buyers turn your business into a doormat.

Don't let big buyers turn your business into a doormat. Keep your eye out for these common threats. Don't kid yourself.

After years of fumbling while reading the written word, Christian Boer, a graphic designer from the Netherlands, has developed a way to help tackle his dyslexia . The 30-year-old created a font called Dyslexie that has proved to decrease the number of errors made by dyslexics while reading. The font works by tweaking the appearance of certain letters of the alphabet that dyslexics commonly misconstrue, such as "d" and "b," to make them more recognizable.

Just as a corset improves the appearance of its wearer by keeping everything tightly together, rigidly constraining insulating materials in electrical components can increase their energy density and decrease their rates of failure.

The goal of this "primordial" creative business lounge is to keep workers at ease. And despite its clean white design, nature is never far away at the Thinkgarden in Milan.

And if they are, can they ever make a successful CEO? If you've ever started a company, you might have a disorder. That's the thesis of the Inc

Solar Ivy's panels aren't your typical gray slabs. They might actually improve the appearance of a house. Solar panels don't tend to win beauty contests.

A surprising number of children are getting cosmetic surgery to combat being teased because of their appearance. KTVT's Melissa Newton reports.

The world of law as practiced in the real world is far removed from that usually discussed by law professors and philosophers or shown on television and in movies. In idealized or fictional cases the law always operates formally and may seem to pursue some abstract quest for justice. In the everyday practice of law, however, things work differently--it is all about cobbling together the most compelling and convincing story possible either for or against a defendant

The "Inventions" section of the December 27th, 1919, issue of Scientific American featured a new model of the bicycle invented by Mr. C. H

Men were more satisfied with their body image after having sex for the first time, while females were less satisfied with their appearance, a new study shows.

How would you like to build one of the most famous brands in the world, take it global and open up 16,000 stores, only to watch as your company loses its mojo in the face of the economic collapse? That was the situation Howard Schultz found himself in in 2007. Concerned about Starbucks' trajectory over the 2000s, Schultz, who had stepped back from day-to-day operations and became chairman of the board, re-entered the CEO suite when he sensed that the company was headed in the wrong direction.