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1. Google offers, the business model backbone behind Google Wallet NFC credit cards, kicks off tomorrow

CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker reports on a new study by the World Health Organization that links cellphones with brain cancer.

Climate change will cause the price of staple foods like corn, rice, and wheat to more than double over the next 20 years.

A couple of days ago, the official party line from the World Health Organization on cell phones was this: "no adverse health effects have been established". Not anymore..

Since he was hired in the '70s by Saudi prince Mohammad al-Faisal, French engineer Georges Mougin has tried to figure out a way to tow freshwater icebergs across the Arctic. Now, with 3-D tech, declassified satellite data, and tugboats, he might have cracked the way to quench the world's thirst

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine St-Paul-lez-Durance, France The world's largest fusion experiment is finally beginning to take shape. [More]

And how other brands could get messianic in their message and convert consumers to acolytes.

Sales forecasts are by nature imperfect. But experts say there are ways to squeeze more value out of the projections you're making

Around the world, frogs and other amphibians are disappearing due to habitat loss, climate change, pollution and the deadly chytrid fungus , which has already driven a few dozen species into extinction. But with critical information on many species still lacking, scientists can only go so far when trying to help save those in crisis. [More]

By David Brough LONDON (Reuters) - Food prices could double in the next 20 years and demand will soar as the world struggles to raise output via a failing system, international charity Oxfam said Tuesday, warning of worsening global hunger. [More]

Welcome to the world of sales training 2.0, where innovators are leveraging new technologyand new thinkingto make better sales people. Eric Richardson believes there's a serious disconnect in the world of sales.

You might want to start. At only 23 years old, Eric Kuhn has trail-blazed many media empires into the social space--now he's eyeing nothing less than the future of entertainment. Eric Kuhn isn't old enough to rent a car, but as the former head of social media for CNN, and the digital architect of @KatieCouric's viral interview with Sara Palin , he's already experienced many watershed moments for social media

Why businesses shouldn't treat technology as a young person's game Ninety percent of technology marketing targets 10 percent of the population: the young, the cool, the perceived digerati. A few niche companies address the senior market with products so simplified your cat could use them.

Nearly every entrepreneur exaggerates his or her company's size to impress clients. Jason Fried says such behavior is sillyand unnecessary

The Norse came to a new land around the end of the first millennium, borne on the backs of their Viking long ships and lured away from Iceland by the promise of Erik the Red's Greenland. The land was indeed green when they landed--and stayed that way for several centuries until natural variations in the planet's climate cooled the world's largest island by 4 degrees Celsius