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In X-Men: First Class , the latest film about the popular comic book superheroes, one of the mutant characters goes by the nickname Darwin because he has the power of “reactive evolution.” He instantly adapts to any threat: toss him in water and he sprouts gills; hit him with a club and his skin turns to armored plates. Biology mavens in the audience may object that this form of evolution is more or less the opposite of what Charles Darwin proposed with his theory of natural selection

A social network for renting and borrowing aims to bring the concept of "sharing" back into the real world. NeighborGoods , the SXSW Accelerator winner for Best Bootstrapped Startup, wants to revitalize neighborly sharing by offering communities a brilliantly practical incentive to interact: everyone else's unused stuff.

Making the power of synchrotron light available to more businesses, building new experimental equipment and developing new capabilities are three of the areas of collaboration in a trans-Atlantic memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Diamond Light Source Ltd.

The fashion mogul is now bringing style to office supplies. Chris Burch is best known as the fashion mogul who co-founded, with his then-wife, Tory Burch, the Tory Burch apparel line, worn by A-listers such as Michelle Obama and Gwyneth Paltrow.

The smartphone boom helps clever companies turn ephemeral real-world resources into marketable goods. #article-bucket a .article-view-enlarged { display:none; } CHAD MEYER and Omid Saadati met at a Bay Area coffee shop about a year ago, and the two young entrepreneurs immediately began talking about what everyone in San Francisco talks about when they first meet: how long it had taken to find parking. "We'd both been going around and around the block, and we'd seen all these prime parking spaces that we couldn't use," Meyer says

For Amazon, the deep discount wasn't a random bout of charity--it represented a huge opportunity to present consumers with an alternative to iTunes, and to introduce its cloud-based music service. How'd that go? Behold, the power of Lady Gaga.

Did you ever wonder what you and your childhood friends would be when you grew up? Could I have predicted that my rebellious attitude would lead me to form my own company ? Or what about my friend, Paul Brooks

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From work to play, how can someone get the most out of what they do? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Flow (1990) by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

INQ just revealed that its so-called Facebookphone is getting a location-based services layer supplied through Foursquare , with the check-in game deeply embedded in the OS. This move adds all sorts of additional powers to the phone without requiring running an app, and it's a real coup for Foursquare.

Wayne Breitbarth is a consultant and speaker on social media and author of The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success. Wayne Breitbarth is a consultant and speaker on social media and author of The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success.

For most of the the thousands of college students getting their sheepskins this month, next month and the months to come will likely be a sobering entrance into the job market.

That's the future we envision, after seeing this Microsoft tech that projects what's going on underneath your skin, on top of your skin. One of the greatest health scourges of this country or any one isn't a bacterium, virus, or disease at all. Rather, it's a behavior--or, to put a finer point on it, a lack of a behavior.

The battle between the Silicon Valley greats isn't typical corporate warfare.

The CrowdOptic app for iPhone overlays statistics in real-time, enhancing performers, players, and songs. Imagine watching a basketball game and seeing all of the vital statistics surround your favorite player without taking your eye off the game. CrowdOptic aims to visually enhance the event experience through a heads-up display on an iPhone .