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A new $29 million Defense Department project makes viewing military intelligence from Afghanistan as easy as ordering a movie from Netflix. The Department of Defense is unveiling a Netflix Instant-style system for military intelligence that will allow military personnel around the world to view war-zone footage. Called the National System for Geo-Intelligence Video Services (NVS), the closed-access system will be accessible only by American and coalition troops and military employees.

Improving research by treating animals like a box of cereal. Scientists have discovered a harmless, inexpensive way to track Zebras in the wild: snap pictures of their strips and ID them like UPC product codes. Tracking animals over time is essential to understanding migration patterns and species repopulation

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Design thinking is a process of empathizing with the end user. Its principal guru is David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford design school, who takes a similar approach to managing people. He believes leadership is a matter of empathizing with employees

Illustration by Brock Davis Water is becoming a high-stakes business where there's money to be made everywhere you look -- from greasy wool to microchips. In the rangeland of Australia, sheep get frightfully dirty

It might be all-natural, but that joint you're smoking has a serious carbon footprint. Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: Marijuana growth uses 1% of all U.S. energy

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In general, manufacturers have little reason to, say, swap out incandescent lightbulbs for CFLs in their factories unless there is some sort of financial incentive. There is no bigger incentive than having one of your main customers--in this case, the world's largest consumer product manufacturer Procter & Gamble--ask you to shape up or get out

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1. When former Time magazine editor Walter Isaacson began appearing a Apple events, everyone knew he was working on a book. Over the weekend it was officially revealed that his authorized biography of Steve Jobs, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, will be published in early 2012.

When Mike Sprouse , Chief Marketing Officer at for one of the largest, privately-owned internet marketing companies in the world, Epic Media Group , agreed to be on my broadcast today, I immediately jumped at the opportunity to ask him a few marketing and branding questions. Mike is also the author of The Greatness Gap , which details personal strategies to maximize your professional career. If you have questions for Mike related to finding your passion, marketing your business or how to give back to our global community, call into the show today , April 18th at 2pm ET or send me an email ! Mike, you’ve worked in the corporate arena for most of your career, and yet you refer to yourself as entrepreneurial.

Recently, I was asked why it's important to have a company page on LinkedIn. To make sure we covered all of the bases, I turned to one of my favorite LinkedIn Guru 's, Barbara Rozgonyi.