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What Gives Solar Superstorms Their Power? [Video]

In the past few months, you might recall warnings of incoming pieces of the sun. Called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), these energetic solar-storm particles can trigger amazing displays of auroras .

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Conservatives Lose Faith in Science over Last 40 Years

Conservatives' trust of science has gradually decreased over the past 40 years, beginning perhaps when empirical research was increasingly used to justify government regulations, according to a new academic analysis. [More]

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To Be a Better Entrepreneur, Look to the Past

Sure, all entrepreneurs look to the future - but I've learned that the best ones don't overlook the past. As entrepreneurs, we are obsessed with the future

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3 Ways to Reignite Innovation in Your Business

If your growth has stalled, encouraging innovation on the front line will make all the difference. This past week, our team was working with members of a family-owned manufacturing business who had watched their product sales shrink over the past 10 years. Highly motivated to keep sales up as their core profitable products started to lose traction, they took whatever work they could find.

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Where Pinterest Will Go From Here

Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann explains why the social network updated its profile pages, and future plans for more extensive changes. Earlier this week, we heard a vague promise from Pinterest's founder Ben Silbermann : The fast-growing social bulletin-board website would be adding user profiles by week's end. Voila! On Friday morning Pinterest introduced profile pages that showcase a user's photo more prominently, as well as the other individuals that user most often re-pins

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How Packaged Food Makes Girls Hyper

The chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, has become familiar in the past decade, notably to parents searching for BPA-free bottles for their infants.

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The Dwindling Web

Humans have harvested the sea for tens of thousands of years, but only in the past few centuries have we begun to take a big toll on ecosystems. The two food webs below show predatory relationships among life-forms in the northern Adriatic Sea.

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How to Handle ‘It Costs Too Much!’

You can make the sale even after a customer says your price is way too high. Follow these easy steps. If your job involves selling, chances are you're going to hear one of these objections: "It costs too much!" or "The price is too high." The next time you do, try this simple five-step process to handle this all-too-common objection: 1

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Innovating the Dress Shirt: Ministry of Supply

Several MIT students have engineered apparel that makes sweating through your dress shirt a thing of the past. Yellow stains on dress shirts from prespiration is a nightmare for every professional working today.

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Why Comcast Will Crush Netflix

I’m sitting in my rental car outside of eBay headquarters on a rainy day in San Francisco. I’m about to step into my second day delivering an Outthinker workshop to group of technology execs from various companies. Television news here centers on the rapidly reorganizing technology landscape: the Yelp IPO, Yahoo suing Facebook during its pre-IPO quiet period

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The Hidden Reason Why Founders Fail

When it comes to making sound business decisions, this one thing keeps getting in the way. Have you ever had your pet euthanized? It’s gut-wrenching

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