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We have become chained to a short-term outlook--leaving America to fall behind in the global marketplace. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from the 20th Anniversary edition of On Becoming A Leader (1989) by Warren Bennis.
Read More »Grant Morrison Reinvents Superman, Can He Rescue DC Comics?
An exclusive page from the DC Comics reboot of Action Comics shows a more human Superman as envisioned by veteran auteur Grant Morrison. It's the most iconic title in the DC Comics canon. When the original Action Comics #1 debuted in 1938, it featured the first appearance of Superman and is regarded as the first superhero comic
Read More »The Secret To Winning With Web Analytics? Starting Right
Google's digital marketing evangelist breaks down five steps to starting your company on the right web-analytics track. There are world-class analytics tools available for free from both Yahoo and Google that will get you more data than God ever intended you to have. Yet, perhaps shockingly, a vast majority of decisions website owners make are based on faith rather than data
Read More »Bragg reflectivity of X-rays: At the limit of the possible
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers utilizing high-brightness x-rays at the U.S.
Read More »America’s Fastest-Growing Telecommunications Company
One Source Networks manages wide-area networks and provides VoIP services for large and midsize customers. As anyone who has scanned a phone bill knows, telecom companies don't like to make things easy
Read More »Top 10 Companies by Growth Rate
From selling designer apparel to designing the hottest nightclubs, the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 500 share their secrets to rapid growth.
Read More »New magnetic imaging technique heralds advance in spintronics
Impressive results from experiments at Diamond Light Source on magnetic lensless imaging by Fourier transform holography using extended references have been published today in Optics Express, the journal of the Optical Society of America.
Read More »Visualizing Data And Telling Compelling Stories With OkCupid And FlowingData
Twitter users have shorter relationships. iPhone owners have more sex. And Big Macs cost 50 percent more in Brazil than in the U.S., but are much less in India
Read More »Video: Source of tainted turkey meat still unknown
The government is tracking down the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to tainted turkey meat. At least one death was reported in California. Jeff Glor reports
Read More »Vermont finds contaminated fish as nuclear debate rages
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vermont health regulators said on Tuesday they found a fish containing radioactive material in the Connecticut River near Entergy's Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant which could be another setback for Entergy to keep it running. The state said it needs to do more testing to determine the source of the Strontium-90, which can cause bone cancer and leukemia. [More]
Read More »Europe’s E. coli outbreaks linked to Egyptian seeds
By Kate Kelland and Eric Kelsey LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) - Imported fenugreek seeds from Egypt may be the source of highly toxic E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France that have killed at least 48 people, according to initial investigations by European scientists. [More]
Read More »The Rosetta Project Is Preserving Every Language Ever Spoken, On One Nano-Etched Piece Of Metal
A project of the Long Now Foundation, the aim is to make sure we preserve the knowledge contained in dying languages: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out." The Long Now Foundation--currently breaking ground in Texas at the future site of its first monument-sized 10,000-year clock --is pursuing several programs in addition to the clock. One of these, the Rosetta Project, takes as its daunting mission the documentation of every human language currently in use; some 7,000 in total, the majority of which are in danger of disappearing without a trace. Directing this ambitious venture is Laura Welcher, a linguist who has specialized in building archival resources for indigenous North American languages.
Read More »Lindau Nobel Meeting–Beef Bug to Blame for Bowel Cancer?
Even if you adore red meat, you'll put off your big juicy steak by hearing what
Read More »GSV Boosts Facebook To $70B, HBO Go Hits 3M, iPhone 5 Due In Three Months With "Lite" Partner
The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of people and companies making moves in your space.
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