It's lonely at the top, according to a new survey that found fully half of all chief executives suffer from isolation and loneliness. When starting a business , many young entrepreneurs dream of the day when the enterprise has grown and they sit atop a successful company as CEO. This makes sense.
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Proposed changes to American Psychological Association's diagnostic manual may stop skyrocketing autism rates, experts said
Read More »This Week In Bots: Snakes, Barks, Vacuums, Sex Movies, And Other Mechanical Surprises
The Dog-Bark Snake Bot You've probably heard of robot snakes before, useful in search-and-rescue scenarios because they can worm their way into confined spaces--perhaps in collapsed buildings--that other machines can't match. You may also know SAR teams sometimes use sniffer dogs to help them locate victims trapped in rubble. But you've probably never conflated these two notions, and pictured a SAR dog that has a slave snake-bot that it can deploy and control with a bark.
Read More »The Last Life Boat
After spending over 200 days on a cruise ship, Sixthman founder Andy Levine offers his perspective on what happened on the Costa Concordia. I am probably one of the few 41 year olds who has been on over 50 cruises in my lifetime and was actually on a cruise last weekend when the news of the Costa Concordia incident broke
Read More »How Anonymous Is Tricking The Public Into Helping Them Take On The Feds
#OpMegaupload , a reaction by the hacktivists group Anonymous to a strict takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload (and the arrest of employees) on piracy charges, has been pretty successful in disabling the websites of the Department of Justice, the MPAA, the RIAA and others. Partly carried out via Twitter messages, this new effort by Anonymous is only superficially similar to previous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that Anonymous has carried out to punish its targets
Read More »For Brands, Twitter’s Enhanced Profile Pages Make Every Tweet Count
HP, Best Buy, and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing. It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews?
Read More »Video: Child in controversial ad speaks out
Georgia is running a controversial ad campaign about childhood obesity. The ads that run on television feature obese children. Mark Strassmann reports.
Read More »Sex guidelines issued for post-heart attack life
American Heart Association: If you can walk up two flights of stairs or walk briskly, you're likely OK to have sex
Read More »Google Announces Q4 Earnings, IBM’s Rosy 2012 Forecast, German Court Rejects A Samsung Suit
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google Q4 Earnings Not Google-y Enough . There were several handsome numbers in
Read More »Video: Safe sex after heart attack
The American Heart Association has released guidelines for safe sex after having a heart attack.
Read More »MIND Reviews: The Better Angels of Our Nature
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Read More »The Return Of LiveJournal
LiveJournal, one of the web's most popular early blogging sites, is launching a comeback in the United States. Their plans for 2012 include massive changes for users
Read More »Catching a Gravity Wave: Canceled Laser Space Antenna May Still Fly
Ripples in the fabric of spacetime regularly zip across the universe from titanic cosmic events, such as the mergers of supermassive black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun.
Read More »3 Timeless Parables For Regaining Perspective
If you are like me, sometimes I am so busy trying to catch up, stay even, or take the lead that I lose perspective. When things are going well, I am on top of the world.
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