Slava Rubin, co-founder of Indiegogo, a website where anyone can raise money, talks about the impact recent crowdfunding legislation will have on his firm and those looking for financing.
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Read More »The 9 Elements of Highly Effective Employee Praise
Step 1: Lose the Employee-of-the-Month program. (No one cares about it.) Here's the recognition your staff really deserves. Here’s a fun exercise: Think about an old boss you didn't like.
Read More »Has Climate Change Really Made Thunderstorms More Powerful?
The extreme weather, including a near-record number of tornadoes , in 2011 forced the debate of the impact of climate change on severe weather to resurface. [More]
Read More »What A Funeral Has To Do With Company Culture
The community you build at work is just as important as anything else you do. A case in point. I debated sharing this story here because of how recently these events had taken place.
Read More »Under the Microscope #11 – Jet streams
In this video Dr Sungjune Jung shows us the fluid structures produced by the impact of two liquid jets.
Read More »Autism Signs Appear in Brains of 6-Month-Old Infants
The early signs of autism are visible in the brains of 6-month-old infants, a new study finds, suggesting that future treatments could be given at this time, to lessen the impact of the disorder on children. [More]
Read More »Nitrogen Pollution Likely to Increase Under Climate Change
Scientists have recently found humanity's nitrogen footprint on watersheds once thought to be isolated and pristine, indicating our impact on the world is more widespread than previously imagined. [More]
Read More »What To Ask the Person in the Mirror
Harvard Business School professor Robert S. Kaplan explains his questions for effective leadership, and identifying the impact you want to make.
Read More »Bee Hunt!
A scientific study to understand the impact of climate change and other factors on plant-pollinator interactions, geographic distributions and seasonal abundances [More]
Read More »Social Entrepreneurs: 5 Moves to Get Started Now
I know you're passionate about changing the world, but if your business model sucks and you go out of business, it helps nobody. Here's how to make the smartest moves.
Read More »4 Signs You Are Overworked
Take a cue from endurance athletes: Here are four ways to tell you're about to hit a performance wall. Sometimes it’s obvious we need a break , but in most cases we figure it out too late. When you work double-digit hours and Sundays are no longer a day of rest, feeling overworked can become the new normal.
Read More »Gravestone Project
Citizen scientists map the location of graveyards around the globe as well as the impact of air pollution on marble gravestones [More]
Read More »Safecast
Help researchers study the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster by taking and submitting radiation readings [More]
Read More »CERN CLOUD research team adds new pieces to puzzle of cloud formation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Jasper Kirkby, a physicist at CERN and colleagues have built an experimental climate chamber to measure the impact of cosmic rays on aerosol creation to mimic the creation of clouds in Earth's atmosphere. So far, as the team describes in their paper published in Nature, there appears to be some evidence of aerosol creation, but not enough to account for cloud formation, and thus theres no evidence yet to show that cosmic rays have an impact on global temperatures.
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