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A new report details which state governments are doing the most to be energy efficient. Hey, Alabama's not such a fuel-guzzling planet-killer anymore! Energy efficiency--it's all the rage these days. From CFL light bulbs to Energy Star fridges, it's easy to try to reduce your personal energy consumption

Just how big will the biography of the late Apple founder be? It's "the biggest nonfiction book of the year," a publishing insider tells Fast Company. Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs

Flying Dinosaur Bot There's a big debate about how modern bird evolved from flying dinosaurs, and another about how those dinosaurs learned to fly: Did they gradually get better at gliding like a flying squirrel, or did they run-flap along the ground giving them better hunting speed and the ability to easily leap onto perches?

Occupy Wall Street is meant to be a leaderless movement. But that hasn't stopped some people from trying to identify leaders.

Dreaming up travel on Trippy makes it all a reality, says J.R. Johnson, the startup's founder

Diane Yu sees a $160 billion worldwide TV market opportunity for her company and its clients. As chief technology officer and cofounder of Freewheel --an ad tech firm with 130 full-time employees and U.S. headquarters in New York--Yu helps major television networks make sense of all the ads they're selling, and helps brands figure out what works to reach audiences wherever they're watching video content, now.

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It's easier to start a company in Rwanda, Singapore, or Macedonia than it is to do so in the United States, according to the World Bank's latest report on start-up friendly economies. The World Bank's annual Doing Business report ranks the ease of doing business within 183 countries based on business-friendly regulations. The formula takes into account the ease of starting a business, factoring minimum cost, time, and available capital

When cataloging images of tuberculosis cells became too daunting for a research team at Harvard, they turned to crowdsourcing, and discovered that the masses have the ability to dramatically change the course of scientific research. Sarah Fortune, a tuberculosis (TB) researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, had thousands of images of multiplying TB cells piling up in her lab. Her team of graduate students were inundated: all the pictures had to be labeled; some probably held the key to combating a deadly bacteria that infects one-third of the global population, mostly in poor parts of Asia, Africa and South America

The founder of WineLibrary.com says you cant leave customer engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, is back with the story of the dead vehicle's remarkable resurrection. When Who Killed the Electric Car?

Call it Sesame Street for adults, Dominican-style. Contracorriente has the shocking plot twists of daytime T.V., but with a secret message about savings.

Almost every other industry has figured out a way to give back while still making a profit. But health-care providers, insurance companies, and big pharma still are trying to squeeze every last dollar out of patients, with bad results.

I wasn’t paying attention as I took a diagonal shortcut across Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square this August.

Human relationships are dynamic, not static. Leaders who rest on their laurels or take people for granted can find themselves with problem relationships down the road.