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Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week.

Following up on my post yesterday about my own journey with science, I wanted to offer some words of encouragement to those who are still in the early stages of their own journey.

If you want to reduce your business expenses in 2012 you must teach yourself one simple skill. Awhile back I was having lunch with a few friends. After the bill came she looked at it, called the waiter over to the table, and explained that she wanted 10 percent off of the bill

The makers of an Oscar-nominated short film app weigh in on managing uber-creative employees, running a studio like a start-up, and why CEOs should take more business trips. Moonbot Studios, a digital animation and development company based in Shreveport, Louisiana, describes itself as "an interplanetary creative expedition of story and art." If that sounds vague—even a bit nebulous—that's because its founders like to keep thing fluid

After achieving meteoric success with his buy-one-give-one model of shoe retailing, the Toms founder is reflecting on what other businesses can do to give back--and even giving back a little more himself.

After Google+, does the world need another online community? Storytree thinks it does and offers a site to help family members tell their favorite tales. "With Facebook and Google Circles, you get a lot of noise going on," a cofounder tells us

Ancient Lives, a project of citizen scholarship Zooniverse, makes it possible for regular folks with no knowledge of Greek to help with the work of translating important ancient Greek documents. Zooniverse , the citizen-science web portal that asks users to identify lunar craters and spot merging galaxies, now brings crowd-sourced research to the humanities with its Ancient Lives project, in which casual visitors scour images of papyrus fragments, teasing out Greek letters that spell the lives of people who lived in Egypt between the ages of Alexander and Jesus. The papyrus manuscripts come from the rubbish mounds of Oxyrhynchus, a city that flourished along the Nile between the 4th century BC and the Muslim invasion of Egypt in the 7th century AD

Have you ever found yourself in one of those awkward social situations where you didn’t know what to say? Who hasn’t?

Have you, a friend or a family member ever lost touch with a high school sweetheart, college flame or young love — and then gotten back in contact years later? Was the chemistry still the same?