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Read More »Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: HopStop
How this door-to-door directions, mapping, and route-planning service uses customer feedback to drive innovation and success. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc.
Read More »No Fake: Krossover Brings Data Analysis To High School, College Sports
Vasu Kulkarni is using his computer engineering and entrepreneurship degrees to elevate the playing experience for high-school basketball teams. | Photograph by David Yellen Startup Krossover is bringing number-crunching technology to high-school athletics. DATA ANALYTICS has recently become a red-hot trend in professional sports
Read More »Pain Lessens Guilt
We tend to regard pain as an unfortunate by-product of physical harm. Sensations of crushing, burning and piercing are the language of alert, used by our bodies to communicate tissue damage, whether imminent or real
Read More »"I Stick to Science": A Climate Researcher’s Unexpected Congressional Testimony (preview)
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Read More »"I Stick to Science": Richard Muller’s Statement to Congress about Climate Change [Web Exclusive]
STATEMENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Richard A. Muller [More]
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Let’s Retire the Phrase: "We Need a Moon Shot to…[Fill in the Blank]"
In late May, Patrick Kennedy, the former congressman and the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, gathered a group of luminaries to launch " One Mind for Research ," which coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of his uncle's call to trek to our natural satellite
Read More »Japanese Retirees Ready to Risk Fukushima Front Line
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Read More »Patent Watch
Device for avoiding a collision in a lane-change maneuver of a vehicle: It’s not quite KITT, the artificially intelligent Trans Am that starred alongside David Hasselhoff in the 1980s television show Knight Rider , but a newly patented computerized driving system takes a step toward the car as driving companion. Not only will it upbraid you when you are about to make a boneheaded lane change, it will actually take control of the steering wheel and prevent a collision
Read More »Five Business Lessons Learned on the Golf Course
Why relationship building on the golf course may be as important as ever for business networking. We live in a hyper-connected society, and being disconnected for four hours if you're in sales or marketing can be daunting—and seem like a major loss of time
Read More »Best Travel Organizing App: TripIt
TripIt continues to lead the pack in organizing travel itineraries. By pulling all of your plans together in one place and making them accessible across all your devices, TripIt is a complete solution. Purchased by popular corporate travel site Concur in January for $120 million, it only continues to improve.
Read More »Get Socially Rewarded for Business Travel
New program lets users earn deals for tweeting and posting to Facebook. If you are a socially savvy business traveler like Shaun Koiner, the first thing you do when you land is scan the e-mails you received while in transit, check-in on Facebook and Foursquare as you deplane, and look for breaking news on Twitter as you ride to your destination.
Read More »Get the Best Airfare Deals
Airfarewatchdog is one of the best websites to filter through the madness and get the best deals on your next business trip. Booking air travel on the Internet used to be a simplified process. You went to Travelocity, Expedia, or relied on your internal business travel coordinators to set it all up.
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