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This is the only way to win at networking: Always offer to help. Never expect anything in return. I call it Golden Rule of Networking, and it should permeate all your networking efforts

A few months ago I wrote a piece for the Washington Post . The next day, my friend Lew emailed me with a link to an article about motivation through rewarding others that appeared on the page opposite my piece

As the recent flurry of articles about why portable electronic devices are restricted during air travel makes clear, the conclusion to be drawn from the information available is a very complicated: “We just don’t know.” For this reason alone airlines err on the side of caution, asking people nicely (and sometimes not so nicely) to turn off their gadgets during takeoff and landing.

From Nature magazine Vaccines are largely safe, and do not cause autism or diabetes, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) said in a report issued today . This conclusion followed a review of more than 1,000 published research studies. [More]

Nuclear fission powers the movement of Earth's continents and crust, a consortium of physicists and other scientists is now reporting, confirming long-standing thinking on this topic. Using neutrino detectors in Japan and Italy--the Kamioka Liquid-Scintillator Antineutrino Detector (KamLAND) and the Borexino Detector--the scientists arrived at their conclusion by measuring the flow of the antithesis of these neutral particles as they emanate from our planet. Their results are detailed July 17 in Nature Geoscience .

The trophy that Paula Creamer kept on her kitchen table for a year won't be coming home.

If you have to ask... Companies are required to submit to the EPA all studies about substantial risk that their chemicals pose to humans

Expanding highways and roads increases congestion by creating more demand--and building more public transportation doesn't help the problem. A quick drive on one of Los Angeles's many freeways illustrates the fact that having more roads doesn't necessarily prevent traffic. Now a study from the University of Toronto confirms it: Expanding highways and roads increases congestion by creating more demand.