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Meet the thermostat directly inspired by the iPod. Courtesy of Nest Labs Tony Fadell developed the first iPod (and 17 subsequent versions) and departed Apple in 2009. Now he's selling a thermostat--but not, of course, just any thermostat.

Meet the thermostat directly inspired by the iPod. Courtesy of Nest Labs Tony Fadell developed the first iPod (and 17 subsequent versions) and departed Apple in 2009. Now he's selling a thermostat--but not, of course, just any thermostat.

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A Russian rocket successfully lifted off from snowy Central Asia tonight (Nov. 13), carrying a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station.

With the return of the brilliant planet Venus to our evening sky, I'm reminded of an amusing anecdote related by a good friend of mine, George Lovi, a well-known astronomy lecturer and author who passed away in 1993. One night, while running a public night at the Brooklyn College Observatory in New York, the telescope was pointed right at Venus, which was displaying a delicate crescent shape at the time. Yet, one student gazing through the telescope eyepiece stubbornly insisted that he was really looking at the moon.

Innovative Superfocus glasses were originally designed to deliver sharp vision to some 65 million Americans with aging eyes. Now they're even helping astronauts see better on long space flights

Welcome to another edition of Starred , where we take you deep inside the inboxes of our favorite CEOs, entrepreneurs, and VCs.

A picture of the Duggar family (public domain). Back in the day, when many anthropologists assume we were all egalitarian foragers living off the land, women may not have thought on how many offspring they wanted.

How an open-minded approach to negative feedback boosts earnings--and morale. Yesterday, I spent 40 minutes on the phone listening to a customer tell me all the things that could be better with three of the products he received among the many in his order. Why spend so much time listening to someone who is unhappy, and just wants to complain, you might ask?

The award-winning, death-cheating director of "Grizzly Man" and "Fitzcarraldo" gets up close and personal for his latest documentary.

The verdict is in: Google+'s new brand pages are worth your time. Here's why signing your business up will be an important social media investment. Just when a marketing strategy in 140 characters or less started to seemed normal, the social media scene for businesses completely changed this week.

How a 55-person business in Minnetonka developed the software solution India needed to tackle its energy problems. Pull out your world map and smack in the middle of the eastern hemisphere lies India, that colossal diamond-shaped country brimming with more than 1.2 billion people—the majority of whom are under the age of 35. Its economy is growing like gangbusters, it is now an influential member of the G20, and foreign firms have made significant investments there.

Take a cue from endurance athletes: Here are four ways to tell you're about to hit a performance wall. Sometimes it’s obvious we need a break , but in most cases we figure it out too late. When you work double-digit hours and Sundays are no longer a day of rest, feeling overworked can become the new normal.

Want to reach more customers? From social to search, here are the 5 big ideas you may have missed at ad:tech this week

Believe it or not, there is a right (and very wrong) way of getting sales referrals. Check out these tricks to sales success.