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Kauffman Foundation analysis shows even successful small businesses aren't adding jobs at the rates they did in previous decades. New businesses are starting smaller, surviving less often, and creating fewer jobs even when they thrive, according to new research. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s analysis of Labor Department and U.S
Read More »How Foursquare Can Boost Loyalty
Tying a traditional loyalty program to social and location-based check-ins can be an easy way for businesses to attract customers and make money. Heres how to determine whether its worth it for your business and then how to pull it off
Read More »Europe Has Already Run Out Of Fish For The Year
People the world over eat more fish than the environment can sustain. In Europe, they ate a year's worth of fish by July 2
Read More »How Food Prices Affect Your Weight
While increasing the prices of bad foods makes kids skinnier, a more effective solution might be finding ways to decrease the prices of foods that are good for you. That Americans don't eat as healthy as they could isn't a surprising fact. But it turns out that tiny economic shifts can make that problem worse, or make it better
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NAME: Zhou-Feng Chen TITLE: Director, Center for the Study of Itch at the Washington University School of Medicine [More]
Read More »Air Pollution Could Damage Your Brain
You knew it wasn't good for your lungs, but new tests find that pollution affects your cognitive abilities and may cause depression. It's no secret that breathing in polluted air on a regular basis can do a number on your heart and lungs
Read More »Facebook Conversations Don’t Achieve The Marketing Boost You Desire
Facebook Likes and comments are great, but they won't save your brand. Researcher Dan Zarella (an expert in social media analysis ) set out to prove they would at least help. He found the opposite results.
Read More »We Are Approaching Peak Car Use
Many major cities have seen a decline in driving over the past few years.
Read More »Is Being an Entrepreneur in Your DNA?
A Babson College study says if you can lead a student to entrepreneurship courses, he'll start his own business. Is being an entrepreneur in your DNA, or can it be taught?
Read More »Paris: City of Light and Cosmic Rays
Paris has long had the nickname "The City of Light", due to its role as a center of education during the Age of Enlightenment and, in the 1800s, due to its early implementation of electric lighting. It very nearly had its name associated with another form of radiation in 1910, however, thanks to a truly unique experiment performed in the most iconic spot in the city: the Eiffel Tower! The experiment, which was the first significant evidence of the existence of cosmic radiation, also highlights the challenges scientists experienced in the early 20th century and the ingenuity they used to overcome them
Read More »Diet Soda Is Why You’re Fat
Whoops. Diet soda might have no calories, but that doesn't keep it from growing your waistline. A new study finds that diet drinkers might be even worse off than regular soda drinkers.
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Read More »U.S. Territory Hospitals Have Higher Death Rates, Less Federal Funding
It's no secret that health care in the U.S.
Read More »BPA Exposure May Make You Less Sexy
A new study says that BPA exposure might make men less attractive to the opposite sex--if we're anything like deer mice. Which it turns out, we might be. BPA has already been linked to breast cancer, early puberty, and infertility.
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