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Feed SubscriptionWhy Small Businesses Should Scrap Strategic Planning
What fast-growing companies need is strategic thinking--not strategic planning. Here are three things smaller companies can do to develop an adaptive, opportunistic approach to strategy.
Read More »Gorilla Joins the Genome Club
By Kerri Smith of Nature magazine Kamilah lives in San Diego, California, is 35 years old, weighs 136 kilograms and has a dark fur coat covering her skin. [More]
Read More »Psoriasis Linked To Protection From HIV-1
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease--the immune system mistakenly attacks its own body, causing red, itchy, scaly patches on the skin. But there may be a hidden upside.
Read More »Video: PJs may fight eczema symptoms
Scientists in Portugal are in the process of developing a special pair of pajamas that they hope will prevent symptoms caused by the skin condition, eczema.
Read More »Could Public Health Benefits Make Combating Climate Change Free?
DURBAN, South Africa--Former entomologist Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum of the World Health Organization worries about nosebleeds more than the average person. That's because he's one of the estimated 12 million people worldwide afflicted with leishmaniasis --a potentially fatal parasitic disease characterized most often by lesions on the skin and/or mucus membranes--caused by the bite of a sandfly. [More]
Read More »Can’t Touch This Feeling
When real brains operate in the real world, it’s a two-way street.
Read More »10 More Of The Best Amazon Reviews. Ever.
First there was Fast Company's " The 10 Best Amazon Reviews. Ever ." Now, due to popular demand, we present, with a nod to Christmas, "10 More of the Best Amazon Reviews. Ever." These reviews are not just a staple of consumer criticism, they've become an elevated form of crowdsourced art
Read More »Your daily cup of coffee may be aging your skin
Maybe you take all the right steps — all 17 of them, even — to care for your skin.
Read More »New Heart Disease Test Brings Higher Costs and More Procedures
In the prevailing more-is-better culture, patients often jump at or at least surrender to the latest and greatest medical test . New imaging technology is gaining crispness with each passing year, and advances in the past several years has enabled doctors to peer inside the body to detect tiny tumors or the beginning of a blocked artery all without slicing the skin
Read More »Mimicking Squid Skin To Create Perfect Instantaneous Camouflage
Cephalopods have the amazing ability to match their backgrounds almost perfectly, and in seconds. Scientists are just now tapping into that power to give man-made objects the same property, creating a new generation of stealth.
Read More »Putting Diabetes on Autopilot
For millions of diabetes sufferers, life is a constant battle to keep their blood sugar balanced, which typically means they have to test their glucose levels and take insulin throughout the day.
Read More »Texture Messaging: Breakthrough May Help Spinal Cord Patients Experience Tactile Sensations
In a first-ever experiment, primates move and feel objects on a computer screen using only their thoughts When real brains operate in the real world, it's a two-way street.
Read More »Superluminal muon-neutrinos? Don’t get your hopes up.
The past 24 hours have suddenly been awash in neutrinos, in addition to the 65 billion passing through every square centimeter of your skin every second from the Sun’s core. [More]
Read More »Serbian kids claim to be magnetic: What do experts say?
Serbian cousins David, 4, Luka, 6, can stick metallic objects to their skin
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