Image of organism fossil, once throught to be an ancient animal embryo; courtesy of Swedish Museum of Natural History The proverbial primordial soup from which our earliest, multi-cellular ancestors emerged was presumably seething with many much simpler, single-celled organisms. Finding the first indications of evolution into more advanced, embryonic development has proved difficult, however, both because of the organisms’ small size and soft structures
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Take it from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. People with body art are generally not only creative, but also bold and decisive. They could be among your best hires
Read More »On the Trail of the Orchid Child
Scientific papers tend to be loaded with statistics and jargon, so it is always a delightful surprise to stumble on a nugget of poetry in an otherwise technical report. So it was with a 2005 paper in the journal Development and Psychopathology , drily entitled “Biological Sensitivity to Context,” which looked at kids’ susceptibility to their family environment. The authors of the research paper, human development specialists Bruce J.
Read More »Advertising Pioneers CP+B and Hyper Island Hawk World Peace
And, no, "World Peace" is not line of organic specialty soaps.
Read More »Low intelligence causes obesity? What research shows
New study of Swedish men links big bellies at midlife to low IQ scores
Read More »Ericsson’s Secret To Success: China, And Mobile Net Infrastructure (Not Taking On The iPhone)
The world is swiftly adapting to mobile internet solutions, and in industrialized nations the era of dumbphones and 2G tech is all but over. This represents a huge opportunity for Swedish firm Ericsson, because though you may not know it, Ericsson's technology underpins much of the hardware that makes cell phone networks actually work.
Read More »From Horse Stable to Sleek Design Firm
Through a meticulous restoration process, Elding Oscarson converted two 19th Century buildings into No Picnic's headquarters by installing reflecting glass walls.
Read More »Office Design Gone Wild
These four outstanding offices use color to tell a story, incorporate mirrors for optical illusions, and house a tattoo parlor and a shooting range. No one likes to work in a noisy office
Read More »Nobel winner thought prize call was ‘student joke’
When a Swedish voice came down the line informing him he had a "very important call" Tuesday night, Australia's newest Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt assumed it was an elaborate undergraduate joke.
Read More »Meet Anders Wahlquist From B-Reel, The Company That Helped Bring "The Wilderness Downtown" To Life
Though Swedish hybrid production company B-Reel has been around since 1999, merging film, interactive, games, and mobile to create new methods of storytelling, it exploded into the broader consciousness with 2010's " The Wilderness Downtown ." The interactive short film dreamed up by Chris Milk and the band Arcade Fire for its song "We Used To Wait" is a
Read More »Wrapp It Up: Spotify Founding CTO’s Startup Hopes To Cure Merchants’ Daily Deals Woes
A mobile app that lets people send gift cards to friends is not the work of a deals company. But it is using discounts to deliver customers--especially the specific demographics individual merchants want--into brick-and-mortar stores. Daily deals have exploded into a $4 billion industry almost overnight because there’s no shortage of merchants who would like to lure online customers into their real-world establishments.
Read More »A Hamburger Chain That Asks Its Customers To Not Order Hamburgers
When a sustainability consulting firm told Swedish burger chain Max Burgers that its main problem was selling beef, the company actually started trying to sell less of its main product. Okay, you're a burger chain.
Read More »The Soundtrack to Working on a Quiet Weekend
OK, so you overdid it at the company party and were completely useless the next day. Now you need to spend some time making up the work over the weekend. These albums will help you focus and be productive.
Read More »Underground Railroad: A Peek inside New York City’s Subway Line of the Future (preview)
Sixty-five feet below the streets of Manhattan, workers are digging the city’s first new subway line since the 1940s.
Read More »First transplant of lab-grown windpipe a success; recipient expected to recover
With no donors available, doctors at Swedish hospital transplant stem cell-made windpipe into 36-year-old tracheal cancer patient
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