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Tiny Frog Makes Big Claim

Magnifying glass, calipers, teeny tiny tape measure. These are the weapons with which researchers are fighting it out to find the world’s smallest frog.

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Generation Flux: Beth Comstock

A conversation with Beth Comstock, GE's chief marketing officer. She is responsible for Ecomagination and Healthymagination, GE efforts that account for billions of dollars in sales.

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Biofuels Land Grab: Guatemala’s Farmers Lose Plots and Prosperity to "Energy Independence" [Slide Show]

POLOCHIC VALLEY, GUATEMALA--Echoes from armed raids still seem to resound in this valley, eight hours north of the capital city. In early 2011 military and paramilitary forces forcibly evicted 13 communities of indigenous Mayan peasants--some 300 families were dispossessed of disputed land they had been living on for three years to secure the property rights of one powerful local family, the Widmanns, and its agribusiness company Chabil Utzaj.

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Video: Deepak Chopra on digital addiction

Deepak Chopra talks to Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Erica Hill about internet addiction and its similarities to drug addiction with respect to the brain.

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How the Euro Crisis Could Be Good For You

Is the economic turmoil overseas a crisis--or an opportunity? Here's a look at a few savvy American companies reaping the benefits of European market instability

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Test Will ‘Mine’ Hydrates for Natural Gas in Alaska

By Nicola Jones of Nature magazine This month, scientists will test a new way to extract methane from beneath the frozen soil of Alaska: they will use waste carbon dioxide from conventional wells to force out the desired natural gas. The pilot experiment will explore the possibility of `mining' from gas hydrates: cages of water ice that hold molecules of methane

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What Drives Customer Loyalty Now?

It's time to put away the golf clubs and pull out Google Reader: Sales are no longer just about personal relationships. If you think customer loyalty is driven by personal relationships or because of your hard work, then not only are you wrong--but you're putting your revenue at risk.

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SOPA – yeah, not a good idea

Those of you who read my blogs may know I am a staunch supporter of intellectual property rights. A great many creative works exist because intellectual property laws allow people to spend time creating when they’d otherwise work non-creative jobs to pay the rent. The internet has, on balance, been a marketing boon for content creators, especially for small artists who previously could only access buyers through layers of intermediaries.

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Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges in India

By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine Physicians in India have identified a form of incurable tuberculosis there, raising further concerns over increasing drug resistance to the disease.

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