We know what ingredients are in many of the products we buy, but often have no idea what the buildings we spend our lives in are made of. The Building Product Transparency Project is trying to change that
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Read More »What is: ScienceOnline2012 – and it’s coming soon!
Several years ago, upon my return from a bloggercon of some kind, I was enthused by the atmosphere at the event and thought to myself how nice it would be to have something similar but with a focus on science. I posted my thoughts on the blog and received many enthusiastic comments and e-mails
Read More »Take Action on Your Goals
Productivity is a hot topic because so many people (especially entrepreneurs) are productivity-challenged.
Read More »Create a Bulletproof 2012 Budget
Thanks to credit crunches and slow sales, experts say the key to budgeting for 2012 is being prepared for the worst. Here are the simple steps to building a bulletproof budget.
Read More »Facebook’s 880 Pages About You!
The social network is watching your every move, and your friends. And while it isn't as nefarious as Big Brother, do we really want our profiles to become another marketing space?
Read More »How I Make Time For Sleep
Start-up founder Eileen P. Gunn writes about how she budgets time to maximize focus, momentum--and rest. I wonder if Congress would consider creating a longer day, specifically for entrepreneurs
Read More »How I Make Time For Sleep
Start-up founder Eileen P. Gunn writes about how she budgets time to maximize focus, momentum--and rest
Read More »Female Geeks Flex Their Skills At Ladies-Only Hackathon
Inside the movement to make the coder community more female friendly.
Read More »The Creative Brain On Exercise
For artists, entrepreneurs, and any other driven creators, exercise is a powerful tool in the quest to help transform the persistent uncertainty, fear, and anxiety that accompanies the quest to create from a source of suffering into something less toxic, then potentially even into fuel. For more than thirty years, Haruki Murakami has dazzled the world with his beautifully crafted words, most often in the form of novels and short stories
Read More »What Kind of Science Television Viewer Are You?
As a little girl, some of my fondest memories were watching science and nature shows on American public television with my family: NOVA, National Geographic, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. I recall as a preteen being transfixed as I watched an episode of NOVA that demonstrated a magnified image of cardiac muscle cells sparsely arranged
Read More »The Dinosaur Baron of Transylvania (preview)
The year is 1906.
Read More »Ban Chimp Testing
The testing began shortly after Bobby’s first birthday.
Read More »Training CEOs to Be Better Leaders
Former Navy SEAL Rob Roy is on a mission to toughen up American CEOs. For Rob Roy, warfare is more than just a business metaphor. A former Navy SEAL, Roy runs SOT-G, a Coronado, California, company that puts clients, most of them business leaders, through a hellish 80-hour leadership course inspired by military combat prep
Read More »Reader Mail: October 2011
Readers respond to our our story about globetrotting 21-year-old Ankur Jain and our How I Did It feature package, along with columns by Jason Fried and Meg Hirshberg. Tales From the Front Readers of all ages enjoyed our cover story about 14 entrepreneurs and their successes, failures, and lessons learned (" How I Did It ," July/August) .
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