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The recent rise in food prices is just the first warning sign that the way we produce food may not be working so well. There are some important changes that need to be made to continue to feed a growing population. Your local grocery store may be stocked with foods from around the world, but make no mistake: Our food system is starting to fail

Sand is a cheap and easy to find water filter. It's also not a very good water filter

In this year’s NBA playoffs the Dallas Mavericks displayed an uncanny ability to come from behind and win. Uncanny because to do so implies a defiance of expectation – teams that are ahead should, obviously, have a greater chance of winning a game. However, new research from Jonah Berger and Devin Pope suggests that once we account for some basic psychological principles of motivation, the odds of winning might, in some cases, be reversed.

Richard Kerris, the former Apple exec, is gliding through his presentation of HP's TouchPad. As the current VP of worldwide developer relations for WebOS, the slick software giving life to HP's latest mobile devices, Kerris is giddily running through the tablet's bells and whistles: the design, the partnerships, the apps, the engineering. But suddenly our discussion is interrupted by the sound of woodwinds, dancing up the scale

Do you believe that there exists a right way and a wrong way to market your business?

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on the latest plan to shore up our country's finances and jumpstart the economy: A new tax-repatriation holiday. The holiday would involve drastically lowering taxes on corporate profits for companies that choose to bring assets back into this country. (It's common practice for big companies to store most of their cash in tax havens in order to avoid paying the 35 percent corporate profit tax

What do you do if creative agencies are constantly bugging you to create new ways to promote brands on your network? Hold a competition

Do you ever wonder how all those products end up on the shelves of your favorite retailer? Here are some case studies of small businesses who cracked the code.

With the market for cloud-based enterprise services expected to grow to $35.6 billion by 2015, the battle for control of the clouds is heating up, with tech giants such as EMC, Apple, Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft elbowing for market share. But don't forget about scrappy underdog Box.net

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Skanz Are Wearable Business Cards/Social Network The New York Consumer Electronic Week conference will outfit all attendees with a QR-code wristband that activities a sophisticated business card-like app called Skanz. In addition to basic info, Skanz is a mini-social network that facilitates offline interacting after the conference--in other words, no more trying to cram even more URLs and social media IDs onto increasingly tinier slivers of what was once called a business card (for more business-card ditching strategies, see our post from SXSW)

Pretty much everyone uses Google to find local businesses. Here's how to make sure your company stands out

If you are starting up a company and find yourself pitching everything that walks upright these days, please watch this video called "Hardly Working, Start-up Guys." Clearly the folks at CollegeHumor are embellishing for the sake of parody, but boy do they offer a reality check. So how about you? Are you a start-up jerk

PGT: If newly crowned U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy is to become the next face of golf, he'd be wise to follow the words of wisdom Jack Nicklaus gave to Tiger Woods 14 years ago.

Good times and laughs are only part of the reason the satirical newspaper works.

Nearly 100 years after Joyce wrote his polyglot seminal work, are we any closer to a technological solution to breaking down the barriers of language? Not if the recent scuffle over Google Translate is any indication. Joyce and the Limits of the Twentieth Century In celebration of Bloomsday (June 16, the 107th anniversary of the fictional events that occur in his Ulysses), I'll reach beyond time, death, and the limits of my own or anyone else's knowledge to affirm that James Joyce would have adored Google Translate.