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Voxy’s Paul Gollash Makes Language Learning Social, Local, And Mobile

Voxy is more than Rosetta Stone meets The New York Times--it also provides location-based lessons about your immediate surroundings, and provides access to tutors via video chats. "Language learning is like learning how to cook or how to surf," says Voxy founder Paul Gollash. It’s not something that is best learned in a classroom.

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Oil Habit Unchanged on Two-Year Anniversary of BP’s Gulf of Mexico Spill

Two years ago, 11 men lost their lives as a backlash of gas exploded into the night from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In the ensuing months, roughly 5 million barrels of oil and more than 6 billion cubic feet of natural gas spewed into the ocean from the Macondo well more than a kilometer underwater. It took the combined efforts of the U.S.

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Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World

Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the

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Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World

Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the

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Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World

Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the

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Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World

Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students.

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Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World

Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the

Read More »

Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World

Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the

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Fast Talk: When Is A Startup Like An Attack Submarine?

Meet Roy Gilbert, a former Googler and the CEO of "social learning" company Grockit, who finds similarities between his experience aboard a nuclear attack sub and the world of Silicon Valley. Roy Gilbert is the CEO of Grockit , a 3-year-old social learning company that aims to make test prep more fun, and in the process hopes to democratize what companies like Kaplan typically peddle to the relatively well-to-do. Grockit's users are on track to soon answer their collective 15 millionth question, and each day the site gains more users than would fill the chair-desks of a pair of American high schools

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4 Launch Day Survival Tips

Expect zero sleep, testy employees, and tech glitches you never could have anticipated. Here's how GetHired.com made it through. When I first met Suki Shah, who was wearing a red sweater to make himself stand out in a crowd, there was little outward indication of the treadmill he had been on over the last week

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The Business of Mack’s Fish Camp in Pembroke Pines, Florida

Here's a look at the companies that provide the fishing lures, cabins, and components of the airboats used by visitors to Mack's Fish Camp in the Florida Everglades. Behind the Scenes: Mack's Fish Camp, Pembroke Pines, Florida | 12.29.11, 3:10 p.m. Airboat propellers Nell and Mack Jones Jr

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