Though Swedish hybrid production company B-Reel has been around since 1999, merging film, interactive, games, and mobile to create new methods of storytelling, it exploded into the broader consciousness with 2010's " The Wilderness Downtown ." The interactive short film dreamed up by Chris Milk and the band Arcade Fire for its song "We Used To Wait" is a
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An American is among the three winners of Nobel Price in medicine for their work on understanding the immune system.
Read More »Exotic quantum states: A new research approach
(PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretical physicists of the University of Innsbruck have formulated a new concept to engineer exotic, so-called topological states of matter in quantum mechanical many-body systems.
Read More »Work Smart: Surviving The Project Plateau
Most ideas never happen because they get abandoned along the way.
Read More »How to Delegate Anything
Managing, to a large extent, is the art of effective delegating.
Read More »Work Smart: Overcoming "Reactionary Workflow" To Make Your Vision A Reality
Stop living someone else's to-do list.
Read More »Wrapp It Up: Spotify Founding CTO’s Startup Hopes To Cure Merchants’ Daily Deals Woes
A mobile app that lets people send gift cards to friends is not the work of a deals company. But it is using discounts to deliver customers--especially the specific demographics individual merchants want--into brick-and-mortar stores. Daily deals have exploded into a $4 billion industry almost overnight because there’s no shortage of merchants who would like to lure online customers into their real-world establishments.
Read More »Box CEO Aaron Levie Will Liberate You From Your Desk [Video]
Box CEO Aaron Levie understands that the less time you spend tied to your desk, the more connected you need to be.
Read More »Inc. 5000 Small Business Confidence Survey, Fall 2011
Inc. 5000 CEOs weigh in on the economy, hiring, and sales. The CEOs of Inc
Read More »Why You Should Hire E-lancers
When you dont need a full-time employee to do the task at hand, hire an e-lancer from one of these new companies. Call it the joblet recovery. With unemployment at 9 percent and 2012 looking bleak, many job seekers find themselves adrift in a modern version of the preindustrial piecework economy
Read More »The Way I Work: Jen Bilik of Knock Knock
Jen Bilik, founder of the stationery and gift business Knock Knock, considers herself the company's "creative monarch." Jen Bilik calls herself a productive procrastinator. She took time off from her work as a freelance book editor in 2002, intending to write an illustrated memoir about high school.
Read More »Mastering Distraction in 18 Minutes
There is a better way to focus your time on what you value the most - and say no to the rest. It begins with a mere 18 Minutes. Do you ever get to the end of a busy day only to realize that next to nothing has been taken off of your “to do” list
Read More »Challenging Einstein is usually a losing venture
(AP) -- Betting against Einstein and his theory of relativity is a way to go broke.
Read More »Innovation Lessons From The Washington Post
For an industry that is based on diving into the unknown, the news business has been notoriously adverse to exploring real innovation in its own industry—despite the fact that it has been floating in a sea of disruption for at least a decade. That’s why the work of The Washington Post Company and its two-year-old WaPo Labs is notable. The principles under which the Labs were founded serve as a roadmap for reinvention—not just for the news business but for any company whose once-firmly entrenched industry is now being shaken up
Read More »Video: "A Gifted Man" chooses to help the needy
CBS News correspondent Karen Brown talks to Dr.
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