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What sort of person chooses this risky life? For me, all it took was some innate orneriness and burning desire for vengeance

Nic Adler's blogged, tweeted, and Myspaced his way to keeping The Roxy, his 40-year-old music venue, fresh for its fans. As the social media landscape changes, here's how he's staying on top.

Your resolution for 2012 is to finally get into social media.

DURBAN, South Africa I rented a cellphone during my sojourn here to cover the recent climate change negotiations . A local number enabled me to keep in touch with home and office but also, perhaps more importantly, to make appointments on the fly with ever harried international negotiators

From using protests in Egypt to promote clothing lines to a viral campaign video, we take a look at the worst social media blunders of 2011 and what you can learn from them. Social media is immediate. An insensitive or inaccurate tweet can quickly make it around the world before any apology or explanation can even be typed.

Ursula Burns wants to remake her firm into the company American business can’t live without. But can Xerox succeed in a world without Xeroxing?

From "Chinatown" to "Flight of the Conchords," the director of "The Muppets" reveals all of the secret references he snuck into his first feature film. After a warm and Fozzie (wocka, wocka!) welcome in theaters over Thanksgiving, The Muppets are now a certifiable hit, poised to top the box office

A sales meeting is no time to talk about the weather.

Sony's CEO, Howard Stringer, has said his company is going to reinvent the television. It's a dangerous game--and one being played by tech's top firms.

Microscopy remains one of the few areas of science in which enthusiastic amateurs can make others take notice.

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The Killer Bacteria Hall of Fame no doubt houses the usual suspects: Yersinia pestis , perpetrator of the Plague; Treponema pallidum, the spiral-shaped culprit in syphilis ; and Vibrio cholerae , the swimmer that causes cholera .

Physicists of the Double Chooz experiment detected a short-range disappearance of electron antineutrinos. They presented this result on Wednesday 9 November 2011 at the LowNu conference in Seoul, Korea. It helps determine the so-far unknown third neutrino mixing angle which is a fundamental property with important consequences for particle and astro-particle physics.

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