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U.S. businesses struggle to find workers with certain key skills, but a quarter of young men drop out of high school. Does we need to rethink how we train kids for jobs
Read More »Meet the Real Mother of Invention: Persistence
For Jonas Eliasson to bring the Me-Mover to market, all it took was one eureka moment. And then 13 years of painstaking improvement. Like any sane human being, Jonas Eliasson hated commuting.
Read More »Entrepreneurship Everywhere
Seven million people in 115 countries are participating in Global Entrepreneurship Week competitions, awards, and other idea-generating activities as you read this. In honor of the third annual Global Entrepreneurship Week, BizBuySell, an online marketplace of businesses for sale, tells the entrepreneurship story from Canada to Colombia with statistics and other fun facts. BizBuySell, a marketplace of businesses for sale, offers about 45,000 U.S.
Read More »Infographic: America’s Energy Prices Vs. The World
Think your electricity bill is high? It's not. Neither is your heating bill or the price you pay at the pump.
Read More »The Tech That Will Prevent The Next Big Foodborne Illness Outbreak
By tracking every step of the food production process, the next time people start getting sick from cantaloupes, it will be much easier to find which farms are clean, and which are responsible. Food contamination has been in the news recently, and for good reason; at this moment, people in the U.S. are still getting sick from cantaloupe tainted with listeria.
Read More »Edsurge: Death To Edutainment Snoozers
Gamemaker Unity moves into the educational game space, hopefully with more panache than those that have come before. The groupies packed San Francisco's historic Masonic Center like Wi-Fi-toting sardines. The headliner?
Read More »CERN sets course for extra-low-energy antiprotons
The kick-off meeting for ELENA, the Extra Low Energy Antiproton Ring, starts today at CERN. Approved by CERN Council in June this year, ELENA is scheduled to deliver its first antiprotons in 2016.
Read More »Eating fish no help for heart? What new study says
Large study from Denmark ties consumption of fish and fish oil to reduced heart risk in women but not men
Read More »From Denmark to America, $1.8 million Zenvo ST1 50S Packs 1,250 hp
You might be forgiven for drawing a blank at the mention of the name Zenvo, but the boutique European automaker is poised to make its existence known in a big way. The company’s ST1 supercarthe first exotic sports car designed, engineered, and built in Denmark debuted in 2008 with a ...
Read More »Melting Arctic Ice And The Fight On Top Of The World
In this installment of the Butterfly Effect, climate change is creating incredible economic opportunity in the Arctic, leading to saber rattling from Canada and Russia.
Read More »Can Better Place’s Switchable Battery Technology Succeed In Australia?
The one car that can interact with the company's innovative battery change stations isn't even out yet. But Better Place is adding more markets as it strives to become a global electric vehicle infrastructure company.
Read More »A Former Choirboy Show Us The Future Of Live Music
For the latest (mic-stand-kicking) edition of our future-gazing series Crystal Ballin' we spoke with Ian Hogarth, CEO of Songkick. "In my vision of the future, hipsters aren’t obsolete," he tells us. "I think that you're always gonna need human curation
Read More »New MRSA Strain Found In Dairy Cattle and Humans
A new form of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been found in dairy cows and humans in the U.K.
Read More »Location Matters When Hiring for Talent
The study: "The Social Attachment to Place," by Michael S. Dahl, Aalborg University; and Olav Sorenson, Yale School of Management; published in the journal Social Forces. The finding: Proximity to family and friends is a more important factor than wages when people consider a new job
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