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In this installment of "The Big Thirst," the author and Fast Company writer explains why one oft-used statistic about the scarcity of water is misleading. Fact: We hear all the time that "only" 2% of the water on Earth is fresh and available for human use--only 1% if you exclude glaciers and polar ice caps.

For someone who died at the age of 32, the largely self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan left behind an impressive legacy. Number theorists have now finally managed to make sense of one of his more enigmatic statements, written just one year before his death in 1920.

Job hunting can be a bit easier when someone else is helping out. Temp agencies and staffing services have shown an 18 percent year-over-year growth rate, according to AnythingResearch.com.

When the housing bubble burst and the recession hit, real estate became an industry to exit, and exit quickly. Home values may not have fully recovered, but those assigning those values are making a comeback. The real estate appraisal industry grew a modest 1.6 percent since 2008, but IBISWorld expects a 5.2 percent growth in industry revenue for each of the next five years

"Overall, we've learned that our nation's population has become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years," Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the U.S. Census Bureau's racial statistics branch, told interviewers when analyzing the new Census numbers

Andrew Sieg talks about the number one concerns for those planning their retirement.

An ad agency has resorted to an innovative hiring technique: a hashtag battle. Say you're a hiring manager at a leading advertising firm, and you're looking to hire a summer intern

Wanna get out of the hospital alive? Well, the nursing staff has a lot to do with it. Now a study finds that a patient’s risk of dying goes up along with the number of work shifts that a hospital is understaffed in nurses

The iPad is a natural device for magazine content--it may be the future of the genre, in many ways . But successes have been few and far between so far, so Apple may be trying to help digital magazines by building in a template to the code

The iPad is a natural device for magazine content--it may be the future of the genre, in many ways . But successes have been few and far between so far, so Apple may be trying to help digital magazines by building in a template to the code. Is this a good thing

Physician Assistants Number in 2008: 74,800 [More]

HarperCollins wants ebooks--and their licenses--to expire over time. Many lenders aren't happy

Past studies have shown that something called "negative affect" (which is an overall smorgasbord of anger, sadness, fear, irritation, etc.) causes us to inflate the number of physical symptoms we feel. But recent research from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

This year DonorsChoose.Org made our list of The Most Innovative Companies . We speak to CEO Charles Best on how he applies a "best of breed e-commerce" approach to transforming public education.

Requiring fast-food restaurants in New York City to post calorie counts on menus did little to cut the number of calories children and teens consumed, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.