A recent study shows that people with joint pain reported that the weather affected their pain level -- even before the weather changed. Dr. Holly Phillips reports.
Read More »Tag Archives: weather
Feed SubscriptionCapital Well’s Next-Generation Solution
New Hampshire's Capital Well is facing a classic predicament; Its core product is rapidly becoming commoditized. It needs to innovate--fast. Here's how
Read More »The Business of Mack’s Fish Camp in Pembroke Pines, Florida
Here's a look at the companies that provide the fishing lures, cabins, and components of the airboats used by visitors to Mack's Fish Camp in the Florida Everglades. Behind the Scenes: Mack's Fish Camp, Pembroke Pines, Florida | 12.29.11, 3:10 p.m. Airboat propellers Nell and Mack Jones Jr
Read More »Your Customer Research Is All Wrong
Somewhere along the line between brainstorming and testing new ideas in the marketplace, your research is failing. Here's why
Read More »Volunteers Plug Holes in the Climate Record (preview)
Kathy Wendolkowski used to make candy in her spare time.
Read More »For Healthy Cities, Government and Business Need to Reverse Roles
Okay, I have to be honest with you. I love a city, and a downtown with walkways and tunnels and bus stops that tell me where my buses are via GPS and everything else, but sometimes you can just have more connectivity than you need.
Read More »For Healthy Cities, Government and Business Need to Reverse Roles
Okay, I have to be honest with you. I love a city, and a downtown with walkways and tunnels and bus stops that tell me where my buses are via GPS and everything else, but sometimes you can just have more connectivity than you need. Remember the internet-connected toaster, that singed the weather forecast into your morning toast?
Read More »Votizen Brings The Empowerment Of The Internet To Elections
Before political campaigns were all over blogs, Meetup.com, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, there was USA.gov, cofounded by David Binetti in 2000. The site, which was the platform for the first ever webcast from the Oval Office, is now the U.S
Read More »Votizen Brings The Empowerment Of The Internet To Elections
Before political campaigns were all over blogs, Meetup.com, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, there was USA.gov, cofounded by David Binetti in 2000. The site, which was the platform for the first ever webcast from the Oval Office, is now the U.S. Government's official portal
Read More »High Cost of a Winter That Wasn’t
So Punxsutawney Phil says there will be six more weeks of winter. Who cares? This weather has really messed up businesses all around the country
Read More »How To Claw Back Privacy Under Google’s New Policy
The step-by-step guide to using Google's best offerings, but spreading your online eggs into more than just one big basket out in Mountain View, California. Google has a new universal privacy policy taking effect March 1.
Read More »How Speeding The "Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime" Could Change This Modern World
Math breakthroughs don't often capture the headlines--but MIT researchers have just made one that could lead to all sorts of amazing technological breakthroughs that in just a few years will touch every hour of your life. Last week at the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) a new way of calculating Fast Fourier Transforms was presented by a group of MIT researchers
Read More »3 Tactics to Become a Better Salesperson
The secret to successful selling? Don't sell right away. If you’re in a position to “sell” at your company (and no matter what you do for your company, you should be), then you know it’s not always easy to get the ear of the prospect you’re trying to sell to.
Read More »Generation Flux: DJ Patil
Our profile of DJ Patil, Data Scientist at Greylock Partners. His career includes being a researcher at Los Alamos, a Defense Department fellow, a virtual librarian for Iraq, a web-security architect for eBay, and head of a data team at LinkedIn, where his team created "People You May Know." @font-face { font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular'; src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot'); src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.svg# FCKaiserCondWebRegular') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } .kaiser, .kaiser a {font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular', Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height:1; font-size:40px!important;color:#333!important; text-decoration:underline;} .kaiser a:hover {color:#666!important;} .kaiser {text-decoration:none;font-size:30px!important;} .sidebox {float:right;border:1px solid #e6e6e6;background-color:#fafafa!important;width:200px;padding:5px;margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;} .sidebox a {color:#e80681;font-weight:bold;} .sidebox p {font-size:13px;} .bottombox {background:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;padding:15px;} .bottombox img {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:50px;height:50px;padding:6px;} .bottombox a {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.2em; color:#e8007e;font-weight:bold;} Photo by Brooke Nipar DJ Patil pulls a two-foot-long metal bar from his backpack .
Read More »Anatomy of a Megalomaniac: Psychological Analysis of Kim Jong-il from Afar
What was up with a world leader who thought he could control the weather while engaging in his passion for Elizabeth Taylor movies? No one knows for sure, but a few years ago, two psychologists took a crack at a long-distance analysis.
Read More »