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Honeydrop Beverages Fights Bee Colony Collapse Disorder With Tea, Juice

When honey is your main ingredient, the prospect of bees dying is quite real and dire. Hence Honeydrop's plan to donate profits to bees, to keep its supplies flowing. Honeybees are more important than their small size might indicate--they pollinate one-third of U.S

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Reclaiming the "Language of Love" in Your Company

What's the most important lesson entrepreneurs should learn from Steve Jobs? Gary Hamel, a management expert, believes it's how to talk to your employees. Have you told your employees you love them recently

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The Crazy One – A Steve Jobs Tribute

Last week a few of my twitter pals and I had a conversation about how we are proud to describe ourselves as ‘crazy’ and ‘ridiculous’. Sparked by Mark Changizi’s article at the Huffington Post on ‘What to do about all the crazy, ridiculous research ‘ out there, the general consensus was that sometimes what seem to be the most outlandish ideas are the ones that lead to the biggest advancements in science and elsewhere.

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How to Kill Good Ideas

As brainstorming has become customary, has it also lost its sparkle, and value, for your company? Here's where you may have gone wrong, and what to avoid in the future

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Cybermapping Africa’s Strangest Conflict

The Lord's Resistance Army has been waging a brutal war in Uganda for more than 20 years, with hardly a mention in the media. A new piece of software--based on Salesforce--is now tracking the atrocities.

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Check This Out: The New Coke 5!

From lightbulbs to iPhones, tech has a history of being produced with planned obsolescence. And our children will never know the alternative. On Christmas Eve, 1924, a group of industrialists held a secret meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

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Infographic: What’s Really Happening At Solyndra

You've heard bad things about it in the news, but one company's bankruptcy doesn't spell doom for the solar industry, or government funding of energy projects. If you've read any news recently , you've heard of Solyndra , the big solar firm whose bankruptcy is causing headaches for the Obama administration and is being used as evidence that the world isn't ready for solar power.

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Food Fights: Reconsidering Famine and War in the Horn of Africa

It seems there is a never ending cycle of war and famine throughout the Horn of Africa. As a child in the `80's, I first heard about this issue while listening to "We Are The World". Like millions of other people, I wanted to help

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Researchers find world’s first x-ray laser produces most coherent x-ray radiation ever

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first x-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), first unveiled in 2009 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto California, has been undergoing testing by group of physicists determined to find out how many of the photons it emits are synchronized and have found, as they describe in their paper in Physical Review Letters, the x-ray radiation that it produces, is the most coherent ever measured.

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10 luxurious African safari camps

At these lavish safari camps, guests get up close and personal with the world’s most elusive African wildlife — without sacrificing comfort.

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ARPA-e Attacks Rare Earths, Biofuels in Latest Funding

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced the winners of its latest round of grants yesterday in a telephone conference. The funds will advance research projects geared toward improving energy efficiency, developing alternative fuels, improving electrical infrastructure and reducing U.S. dependence on foreign resources.

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