Strokes are the third leading cause of death in this country and now, new research shows the color of your fruits and vegetables can help reduce a stroke. Dr.
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Feed SubscriptionHow Whole Foods "Primes" You To Shop
Have you ever been primed?
Read More »Fab.com Presents The Fast Company U.S. Design Pop-Up Shop
One of the great perks of working at a media company is being the first to learn about new products, try them out, photograph them and--this is the hard part--send them back to the manufacturer. These goods then appear in the magazine and on the website, with the implied notion that you might want to buy them. You know, in a store
Read More »Get Connected With Yammer
It’s becoming common practice among small businesses to have employees spread out all over the country and even all over the globe. How do you establish a company culture when employees are not working together in the same office everyday?
Read More »Here’s What It Would Take To Permanently Shut Down Nuclear Power In Japan
What if instead of restoring its reactors, the country figured out a way to do it all with renewables. It would take work and ingenuity, but it's totally possible.
Read More »MicroPlace Makes It Easy To Invest In–And Make Money From–Organizations Doing Good
The eBay-owned micro-investment vehicle is coming to the United States, starting with California's Freshworks Fund. If you have a few bucks, you can make some money while eradicating food deserts. The investment market has a high barrier to entry.
Read More »Fore! Water Sucking, Pesticide Covered Golf Courses Try To Clean Up Their Act
The links have been a frequent target of environmentalists, due to how much it takes to maintain them, often in places where manicured lawns aren't supposed to grow. But a new generation of courses is making major headway fairway. Golf is a game that environmentalists love to hate--and not without reason.
Read More »Top 10 Oldest Companies
Dont let their age fool you! These longstanding companies are still growing fast. Check out their humble beginnings and rich histories.
Read More »What Do Studebaker And Geocities Have In Common? No One Remembers Them
Experts imagine future prospects for two once-prosperous brands //Our Panel REBOOT CEO Mark Thomann, CEO of River West Brands BRAND CONSULTANT Josh Feldmeth, CEO of Interbrand New York AD MAN Huw Griffith, CEO of M&C Saatchi North America Studebaker Founded in 1852, it began making gasoline cars in 1904 and ceased production in 1966. Geocities In 1994, it was one of the first free sites to build and host a website.
Read More »The Next Attack? Terrorist’s Attempts to Hijack Technology
A specific, credible but unconfirmed terrorist threat to residents of New York City and Washington, D.C., was brought to the public's attention Thursday evening, just three days before the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on those two cities. In the past decade such alerts from government and public safety officials have been all too common as home-grown and international terrorists alike have attempted to use a variety of methods to inflict widespread damage on the U.S
Read More »What The New Patent Reform Act Means For Innovation
President Obama is expected, without delay, to sign into law the first large-scale reform to U.S. patent laws in 60 years
Read More »A Stadium-Sized Balloon In The Stratosphere Could (Re)Engineer The Climate
First, though, the British government is going to put a normal sized balloon in the sky to see if spraying water to refract the sun's light can really prevent climate change. Maybe we'll need a Plan B
Read More »365 Days a Year, the Oil & Gas Industry Delivers
The oil and gas industry hardly innovates! They just dig up oil! Who cares? Actually, I care and I believe that you should, too. I’m so interested in this that I’ve been interviewing innovative professionals in the oil and gas industry.
Read More »Why Founders Get Fired
Entrepreneurs are often ousted from the companies they start. Management experts weigh in on why founder succession happens, and how you can avoid it. In July, Etsy CEO Rob Kalin was moved out of the top spot at the handmade goods retail website he founded in 2005.
Read More »Brilliant Photos Of The Lonely Trucks That Move All Our Stuff
A photo series from photographer Julie Hassett Sutton shows trucks as objects of art, cruising through the beautiful frozen landscape of Montana. When you think of the transportation of global trade, you picture giant container ships, flying cargo planes, or endless trains loaded with shipping containers. What you may forget (unless you're driving on an interstate highway) is that 18-wheeler trucks move a vast amount of freight in this country.
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