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It's not just professional chefs who have cool tools these days. Innovation is happening for the home kitchen as well"helping cooks make meals faster, cleaner, and more artfully. Want to taste the great outdoors but only have a tiny terrace?
Read More »Celebrity Lessons in Selling
What can Justin Bieber teach you about optimizing your sales strategy? Baby, ooh: quite a lot. The television host, producer, and philanthropist is famous for sticking to her brand.
Read More »Kraft outlasts Cantlay to win U.S. Amateur title
Kelly Kraft took the lead when Patrick Cantlay bogeyed the 16th hole, then hung on to win the U.S.
Read More »Triumph of the City [Excerpt]
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Triumph Of The City by Edward Glaeser. Published by arrangement with The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Copyright
Read More »Mapping The Real State Of America
A new atlas gives a sense of what's truly happening in America.
Read More »Brains And Bots Deep Inside Yahoo’s CORE Grab A Billion Clicks
A sophisticated personalization algorithm--combined with ever-savvier editors--has helped boost the Today box on Yahoo's home page to the tune of a 270% increase in clicks since 2009.
Read More »A McDonald’s Dietitian On The Healthier Happy Meal
The Golden Arches recently announced that it's Happy Meals will be getting a little healthier. Their nutrition expert explains the rationale and how they fast food chain is hoping a little bit of healthy eating can be the start of a larger change.
Read More »Kids’ Self-Control Is Crucial for Their Future Success
Self-control--the ability to regulate our attention, emotions and behaviors--emerges in childhood and grows throughout life, but the skill varies widely among individuals. Past studies have reported that self-control is partially inherited and partially learned and that those with less self-control are more likely to be unemployed, en
Read More »How Well Do Miss USA Contestants Represent Their States?
Last month , contestants in the Miss USA pageant were "scared to
Read More »Still Waiting for Payment? You’re Not Alone
Some 40 percent of small businesses say money they're owed is trickling in, while the Freelancers Union says half its members struggled to get paid last year. Getting paid for invoices is slower going than it has been in years for small business, says a new survey by the National Federation of Independent Business . Manufacturers with less than $10 million in annual revenue received payments an average of 48 days after invoicing in 2011
Read More »US joining the Wendelstein 7-X fusion project
The USA is investing over 7.5 million dollars in the construction of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald. In the three-year project, starting in 2011, scientists from the fusion institutes at Princeton, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos are contributing auxiliary magnetic coils, measuring instruments and planning of special sections of the wall cladding for equipping the German fusion device one of a total of nine projects in the Innovative Approaches to Fusion programme of the USA Department of Energy who will accordingly become a partner in the Wendelstein 7-X research programme.
Read More »Marc Speichert On Creating An Online Novela Fan Club
Photograph by Patrick James Miller Creative marketers are launching new efforts to reach the Latin American community. Marc Speichert worked with Telemundo to launch a novela fan club. Marc Speichert Chief Marketing Officer, L'Or
Read More »Beauty Pageants and the Misunderstanding of Evolution Meet….Again
Last week, self proclaimed "geek," Miss California, Alyssa Campanella made beauty pageant history ...by default . When the interviewer posed a Theory of Evolution question, she was one of only two delegates to use the scientific definition of the word "theory" in her response. The honey-drenched, colloquial, conjecture-based definition that the majority of her competitors clung to was, yes, diplomatic.
Read More »Austin Will Be Among The First "Wave And Pay" Cities
Tech-savvy Texans will be some of the first in the U.S.
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