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How Strong Leaders Build Trust

What makes your employees feel vulnerable and skeptical--and how to overcome it to build a higher-performing organization. Years ago I was one of a handful of people hired to help turn around a family owned and operated manufacturing plant that had just been sold to an investment group

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Belief in Relic Putter Helped Golf Scores

It takes lots of practice to shave strokes off your golf score. Or you can just really believe in your putter. Because a new study finds that people putted better when told that their putter had been used by a pro golfer

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This Week In Bots: When Buck Rogers Became Real

Asimo Gets An Upgrade For robot fans, Honda's Asimo has perhaps always been the biggest treasure: He's been in development for decades, and Honda just this week revealed a refresh that makes Asimo the most advanced yet. There's a host of improvements, from slicker and faster gaits, more sophisticated movements, individually articulated fingers (flexible enough to cope with sign language) to improved voice recognition that can discern commands even when three voices are talking at once. The best way to understand how advanced this child-sized bot is nowadays is to watch this video: [youtube eU93VmFyZbg] Asimo is, arguably, just one step away from being the science fiction robots we've been seeing for years

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Can Memories Be Counted?

The series Too Hard for Science? discusses ideas scientists would love to explore that they think are difficult or impossible to investigate. The Scientist: Robert Stickgold, director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Harvard Medical School

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This Smell Will Boost Your Sales

Retailers have to up their game to capitalize off of holiday sales. Here's how to leverage the five senses to encourage customers to buy. Walk into any American mall during the months of November and December, and, if you can tune out the hordes of frantic holiday shoppers, you'll likely notice upbeat Christmas music, the smell of pine boughs and cinnamon, bright red candy-canes, and plenty of free samples

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Bill Gates And The Chinese Government Want To Take On World Hunger

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Beijing to fund a series of revolutionary agricultural and biotech initiatives. China might be using Gates to further its economic imperialism. But maybe that's not such a bad thing

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