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Feed SubscriptionBreakthrough gives hope for new imaging isotope source
A University of Alberta team has made an important breakthrough in the race to find a viable replacement for supply of technetium-99m, an important isotope produced by Canada's Chalk River reactor.
Read More »NASCAR And Twitter Team Up For Audience Growth
Twitter and NASCAR are debuting a new augmented television project for Sunday's Pocono 400. The partnership goes way beyond hashtags. NASCAR and Twitter are unveiling a new sports product at the Pocono 400 race on Sunday, June 10: A co-branded racing page for fans to follow the event in full-time.
Read More »Is it worth fighting about what’s taught in high school biology class?
It is probably no surprise to my regular readers that I get a little exercised about the science wars that play out across the U.S. in various school boards and court actions. It’s probably unavoidable, given that I think about science for a living — when you’ve got a horse in the race, you end up spending a lot of time at the track
Read More »What 3 Science Questions Do You Think the Presidential Candidates Need to Answer before November 6th?
As you may remember from back in February , the Guardian U.S.
Read More »The Commodity-Pricing Trap
Norm Brodsky advises on how to avoid the race to the bottom. Dear Norm, My partner and I have a business that rents photo booths for weddings, parties, and corporate events. My partner has developed software that uses blue-screen technology to create thousands of different backgrounds for the photos, which adds a whole new level of fun
Read More »Rampant Water Pillaging Sucks Yemen Dry
By Joseph Logan SANAA (Reuters) - With a belch of acrid, greasy smoke and a jolt that shakes its moorings, the pump on Yemeni water farmer Jad al-Adhrani's plot of land roars to life, and the race to squeeze the last drop of water out of Yemen's parched earth resumes. Gesturing across his dusty patch of ground in Hamal, on the outskirts of the capital Sanaa, he counts himself lucky to still be drawing water after having dug down only 500 metres, but knows that it cannot last. "When it runs out," he says, "I'll dig again." The water he sells for drinking and washing to residents of the affluent neighboring Sanaa district of Hadda comes from an aquifer that thousands of wells studding the city and surrounding hills have sucked nearly dry.
Read More »Inside the Mind of a Venture Capitalist
Making an investment is like being at the racetrack: Sometimes we make investments based on gut decision, but the horse, jockey, and individual race matter, too.
Read More »5 Questions Every Customer Asks
All customers ask the same questions--of themselves & of you--in this exact order. If you want to sell more, be prepared to answer them.
Read More »Culture Vs. Strategy Is A False Choice
Strategy seems to have fallen on hard times. In his recent Fast Company piece “ Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch ,” author Shawn Parr joins a long list of commentators, psychologists, authors, and consultants who’ve used that dietary line to argue that company culture is a greater determinant of success than competitive strategy
Read More »Yahoo’s Prediction Engine Calls Presidential Race In Favor Of Obama (Sorry, Mitt)
Using smarty-pants economists and computer scientists, Yahoo analyzed historical data and says the math points to the prez taking the White House this fall. An entire industry has emerged to try to predict who will triumph in any particular political contest
Read More »Will Your Start-up Ruin Your Family?
%excerpt% See the rest here: Will Your Start-up Ruin Your Family?
Read More »Widespread Plasticizer Clouds Doping Tests of Cyclists
In the race to catch drug cheats, sports officials are turning to more sophisticated tests. Since cheaters are rarely caught red-handed, scientists devised a plan to catch them with the packaging inside their bodies.
Read More »Going Up Against Apple and Microsoft
In the race to get Internet TV shows and movies into the living room, Boxee co-founder Idan Cohen notices unanticipated advantages of being the (much) smaller player.
Read More »Going Up Against Apple and Microsoft
In the race to get Internet TV shows and movies into the living room, Boxee co-founder Idan Cohen notices unanticipated advantages of being the (much) smaller player.
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