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There are times I can see all the moving pieces I’ve been amassing over the past several months settling into place. And I can see FamiliesGo! coming together as a business. Then there are moments that I’m overwhelmed by the complexity of what I’m trying to do and amount of time and money that it demands—and that I don’t have readily at my disposal—and I wonder if I’m crazy to even attempt this business-owner thing.

This past weekend, I sat down at my computer hell-bent on writing this post. [More]

For the past few weeks, my daughter and I have been immersed in a common childhood ritual: observing the lifecycle of a caterpillar.

Bad news today for Netflix subscribers. The streaming and DVDs-by-mail company sent out a message to its members explaining new price changes and plans for its subscription service. Instead of offering a combined $9.99 plan, which includes unlimited streaming and DVDs by mail (one out at-a-time), Netflix said it will split the service into two distinct plans, beginning in September.

As climate change affects the ecology of the Pacific Ocean, many marine species will suffer, while two new reports indicate that certain fish and whales may successfully adapt. In one study, scientists found that gray whales in the Pacific are capable of feeding at both seafloor and surface levels, which has allowed them to survive fluctuations in food supply during a series of glacial periods.

In 1998, the Kilpatrick Hills, Scotland–based distillery Auchentoshan, created the Auchentoshan Single Malt Lowland Scotch Whisky, Scotland’s only triple-distilled single-malt Scotch.

For more than 100 years, National Geographic explorers have unraveled the mysteries of the past. Now it's your turn [More]

Tasmanian devils ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) have been besieged by a highly contagious cancer that has been pushing the species ever-closer to extinction . In the past 15 years, Devil Facial Tumor Disease has spread throughout Australia's Tasmania island, killing most Tasmanian devils that catch it

A method developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder for making thin, flexible, high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables has won a 2011 R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine. The prestigious annual awards salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year.

With bandwidth-heavy streaming apps such as Netflix, HBO Go, and Pandora out on the market, users are consuming more data than ever before on their smartphones. According to a new report by Nielsen out today, average U.S.

When Google revealed its " instant " search preview powers last year, CEO Eric Schmidt was unequivocal about Google's aim--to try to get its search systems so honed that they'd get faster and faster, and ultimately may even know what you're searching for before you know you need it. Today it revealed Google Instant Pages, and while it's not quite to the point of tapping your brainwaves to predict your needs, it is pretty smart. Essentially, it's a booster to Google Instant that starts pre-loading the pages from search results before you even click on the link for the site you want

It's not profits or the end of coal (they're pretty confident about both those things). Rather, it's a dwindling resource that you wouldn't expect. There are endless aspects of our energy economy to think about--including an aging power grid infrastructure, the lack of rare earth metals , the need to build more robust transmission lines, and so on

When it comes to single-malt Scotch, sometimes you can return to the past. Or at least that’s certainly the case with Glen Garioch 1991 ($100), a very limited 19-year-old whisky of which only 120 bottles have been allocated for the United States

Over the last few months, Syria has been making headlines almost daily as the struggles between the government and protesters have become increasingly violent. This past Friday, the city of Hama was the target of a government-led military assault that claimed the lives of at least 65 protesters and injured countless others. As tens of thousands of mourners gathered the next day, tanks began to surround the city and caused funeral processions to feel more like protests

It seems like there is a new flood, tornado, or hurricane every day. Is this the kind of meteorological insanity we need to learn to expect? Snowpocalypse! Tornadoes! Floods! Climate change may seem like tired old news or ideological propaganda to some of us, but this year's weather has certainly been something to sit up and take notice of.