After being isolated from the rest of the world for nearly a year and a half, sealed away in a mock spacecraft, six volunteer astronauts "returned" to Earth today (Nov. 4) to end a simulated mission to Mars and back. [More]
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Feed SubscriptionHajj To Air On YouTube, Groupon Raises $700 Million IPO, CIA Team Analyzes Twitter For Real-Time Intelligence
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. The Hajj To Be Livestreamed on YouTube . Google will be livestreaming the Hajj, the world's largest religious pilgrimage, in partnership with Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Culture and Information
Read More »7 Start-ups Inspired By Craigslist
Craigslist brought classifieds to the online masses; these fast-growing companies are the niche next-generation of social buying and renting. Location : Brooklyn, New York Founder : Campbell McKellar How it Works : Loosecubes matches people with an extra desk, studio, or office space with independent workers looking for a place to be productive. How it Makes Money : Hosts are charged a 10 percent fee for each transaction
Read More »Fabian Stelzer Uses Neuroscience To Make Your Website Stickier
5 seconds. That's about how long I have to capture your attention on this website and convince you to stick around
Read More »Tweeting With the Stars
Dying to get retweeted by a celebrity? Here are 20 celebrities that will tweet about your business for a price. Dying to get retweeted by a celebrity?
Read More »Who Will Be the First Advanced Battery Maker to Fail?
An economic chill will soon arrive in the world market that provides the batteries that power electric cars. [More]
Read More »BioBook, A Gates-Funded iPad Textbook, Plans A Free Database For Customized Learning
The BioBook is an interactive iPad biology college textbook that allows students and professors to create their own customized learning experience. Since the launch of the iPad, colledge educators have been seeking an inexpensive alternative to paper textbooks that could leverage the collective knowledge of teachers and students. With a $249,000 grant from the Gates Foundation's
Read More »Calendar: MIND Events in November and December
NOVEMBER 4–5 According to the World Health Organization, one in four of us will develop at least one mental illness or behavioral disorder in our lifetime. Depression alone affects an estimated 121 million people worldwide. At the two-day EMBO/EMBL Science and Society Conference , biologists, psychologists and neuroscientists will explore the ethical and social implications of major mental illnesses as well as their causes and treatment
Read More »How Bad Plans And "Good Ideas" Ruin Meetings
Does your company plan things correctly? Or are meetings unproductive due to poor planning? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Getting Things Done (2001) by David Allen.
Read More »Elevator Pitch: Verbling
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Read More »Behind the Jared Heyman and Carl Fusco Feature
The evolution of a complex feature story about a peripatetic entrepreneur, Jared Heyman, and his keep-the-office-fires-burning counterpart, Carl Fusco. In each issue , I fall in love with at least one story. This month, it's Amy Barrett's cover feature on the peripatetic entrepreneur Jared Heyman and his keep-the-office-fires-burning counterpart, Carl Fusco
Read More »Navigation Powered By Declassified Missile Tech (And Maybe Apple) Makes Sci-Fi Real
Navigation, thanks to a bunch of innovations, is about to get futuristic in a way Star Trek's Mr. Chekov would be impressed with ..
Read More »Moustache Madness: Movember Emphasizes Fun, Not Guilt, To Raise Millions For Cancer Programs
Movember cofounder Adam Garone describes how to grow a massive charitable community by bringing the fun. Adam Garone never thought a silly beer-fueled bet to grow a mustache would turn into a multi-million-dollar global charity and the largest non-governmental funder of prostate cancer research. Seven years later, Movember expects more than 600,000 men to ask their friends to contribute donations in exchange for growing an artful caterpillar lip in the annual Movember mustache challenge, which starts Nov.
Read More »Kaggle’s Anthony Goldbloom Helps Companies Crunch Data With Crowdsourcing For Quant Geniuses
It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle , a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it's not selling anything, creating another social network, or peddling yet another useless app.
Read More »Kaggle’s Anthony Goldbloom Helps Companies Crunch Data With Crowdsourcing For Quant Geniuses
It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle , a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it's not selling anything, creating another social network, or peddling yet another useless app
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