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As the New Year approaches, many of us are thinking about our resolutions. What will we vow to do this coming year to be better--both at what we do for a living, and as members of the human race

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Opposing SOPA, Wikipedia Considers Blackout . As a message to legislators who'll vote on the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the next few days, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has threatened to blank out the pages of Wikipedia

Why did the meme factory hire the serious political reporter? They saw eye-to-eye on one important thing: the social network optimization of the news.

When I started VIA in 1993, my mother sent me a card with the famous quote from Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” I believed it then, but now I know it to be the truth

As part of our Leadership Hall of Fame series, we continue our fresh look at The Tipping Point with an interview of author Malcolm Gladwell.

For companies in any industry, it's adapt or die when it comes to social media.

We continue our examination of the business book Purple Cow with an interview of author Seth Godin. What companies are using a purple cow strategy now, and how is Seth trying to change book publishing?

Scientists are quivering with anticipation - flying halfway around the world for a close-up view of the action and devouring the latest updates from the blogosphere the way some girls track the doings of Justin Bieber.

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To hear some folks tell it, cruising is one of the safest forms of travel in the world. To others, it’s an exceedingly risky proposition where you run the risk of robbery, sexual assault and death.

In the words of Maite Nkoana-Mashabane * , President of the Durban UN Climate Change Conference, “ we should not let the perfect become the enemy of the good and the possible .” Given the thousands of fossil fuel-fired power plants around the world (including about 3,000 in North American alone), this good and possible likely means a future that includes coal, natural gas, and oil as primary energy resources. So, how can we use these fossil fuels in a more environmentally responsible way within practical constraints? One option could be found in the flexible operation of carbon capture and sequestration technology on the world s coal-fired power plants

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Amazon Promises Fire Fix

The idea isn't new, but what you get for the money just keeps getting better. In the very early days of your company , it might make sense to call your garage (or basement or kitchen table) headquarters

All science writers, especially those of us who cover particle physics and other fields that purport to reveal ultimate reality, hear from cranks. Pre-email, I got envelopes stuffed with manuscripts, sometimes hundreds of pages long, from people unaffiliated with any research institution known to me.

Terracycle has been criticized for collecting--and recycling--the packaging for less-than-healthy products.