Sick of hearing that climate change doesn't exist from people who haven't studied the matter, climate scientists get together to fix the problem the only way they know how: hip-hop. There is nothing more amusing than incongruous people rapping (Andy Samberg has built a career on this notion), and there is perhaps no more incongruous rappers than Australian academics
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Being an Apple fan is almost a religion, according to one pseudo-scientific study that looked at brain scans of Apple worshipers. Great for Apple--but what's in it for you? Just imagine the marketing consequences..
Read More »Meet The App Man At AT&T
CTO John Donovan, left, sees digital water balloons as a fun primer on handset-to-handset apps—and a lure for wayward subscribers. | Photographs by Darren Braun As leader of Donovan’s tech council, Sanjay Macwan is helping revamp AT&T from a phone company to a technology company.
Read More »Does Corporate Culture Pay?
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Read More »Fly Like You’re Rich With Social Flights (And Private Planes)
Now that people can organize themselves online, private air travel isn’t just for the wealthy anymore. Have you ever wanted to take a quick weekend trip to some out-of-the-way place, but canned the idea because there was no practical way to get there without having to make a connection or two followed by a long drive--all of which would have eaten up half your weekend?
Read More »The Facebook Chasers
The Winklevoss brothers are at it again.
Read More »Welcome To Humanity’s Future Home: First Habitable Planet Close To Confirmed
Gliese 581d was thought to be uninhabitable. But we're in luck. It seems like a lovely place to live
Read More »8 Social Blogging Tips for Business
Use continuous updates and punchy messages to heighten interest and keep your customers informed about products or services which in turn can boost sales.
Read More »The Buck Stops Here: Do We Really Need to Cull Deer Herds?
Dear EarthTalk : Our community is talking of culling local deer herd numbers.
Read More »Facebook-Google Privacy PR Smear Is A Campaign In An Epic, Escalating War
The battle between the Silicon Valley greats isn't typical corporate warfare.
Read More »Why Facebook Photo Tags Are The New (And Possibly More Powerful) Likes
The social network’s small new feature could have a big impact. Yesterday Facebook rolled out a seemingly minor enhancement to their Photos feature.
Read More »Why It Pays to Be a Giver
The push for efficiency defines many organizations, and Greenleaf Book Group is no exception. I push my staff to eliminate silly wastes of time and money as often as I can. We've adopted best practices from many organizations and have become a training ground for operational efficacy.
Read More »Pay Attention – Or Pay Cash
When I worked at Microsoft in the late 1990s, Alex St.
Read More »The Importance of Saying No
As a business owner, you have to work within a lot of confines—a small (or no) staff, a limited budget and only so many hours in the day. If you’ve made your business a success, you’re probably a master of saying “no” to tasks that aren’t important or should be handled by someone else, or some outside service. But saying “no” is about more than delegating and declining tasks
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