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2012 Broadband Index: States Making Progress On Boosting Broadband Blair Christie, huffingtonpost.com Imagine a future where every classroom in America has a high-speed connection to the internet, where students have the entire catalog of books and videos at their fingertips. A future where access to the highest quality health care… http://flip.it/5nSKe Related articles Comcast VP…
‘Hobbit’ Motion Sickness, Nausea Critics Shot Down By Warner Bros. And Peter Jackson Cavan Sieczkowski, huffingtonpost.com Warner Bros. and Peter Jackson are responding to claims that “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is causing motion sickness and nausea among viewers. Peter Jackson’s fantasy flick premiered in New Zealand on Nov. 28 and claims of… http://flip.it/WRhuh Related…
Smartest Cities In America: Fast Company Ranks Brainiest Cities Aaron Sankin, huffingtonpost.com How brainy is your ‘hood? That’s the question posed by Dr. Boyd Cohen in a recent article published in Fast Company. Cohen looked at cities across North America and rated them on a “smart city” scale based on characteristics ranging… http://flip.it/S4G4J Related articles…
Joe Van Brussel, huffingtonpost.com Turns out nobody wants a side of politics with their pizza. Public opinion of Papa John’s dropped precipitously after CEO John Schnatter’s public comments about Obamacare, according to a new study from YouGov BrandIndex, which researches brand… http://flpbd.it/Ch49y Papa John’s Obamacare Stance Costs Company Its Reputation: Study Related articles Suck it,…
The Huffington Post, huffingtonpost.com Pity the poor text message — a mere 20 years young this week and already they are talking about its retirement party. Actually, nobody holds retirement parties anymore, do they? We don’t retire from our jobs, we get pink-slipped. Which is apparen… http://flpbd.it/Y10fU IMHO: Is The Text Message Headed For Retirement?…
Religion v science R.M. | WASHINGTON, DC, economist.com Earth, to Rubio WE ARE now about 1,400 days out from the next presidential election, so it’s time for the potential candidates to start jockeying for position. Hence Marco Rubio’s fabulously elusive (now viral) answer to the rather… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: A Republican senator from Florida, has…
The lottery of life economist.com International Where to be born in 2013 Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country, the United… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: Which country will provide the best…
S.A.P. | LOS ANGELES, economist.com The Erkernermerst JOHNSON reads Reddit from time to time. Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme hatchery, is an incubator of new trends in written language. The Internet has changed so much of our lives, but few things have changed … RT @TheEconomist: Reddit, as the web’s most prominent meme…
Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi… Related articles Top…
Best B-Schools 2012businessweek.com How each school fared on each element of Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking methodology A new generation of business students is opting for specialized master’s degrees straight out of college, rather than the traditiona… http://flpbd.it/X0RLD
Editorials, bloomberg.com After Hurricane Sandy, survivors needed, in addition to safety and power, the ability to communicate. Yet in parts of New York City, mobile communications services were knocked out for days. The problem? The companies that… http://flpbd.it/aV6Ma Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy Related articles Coldplay’s Chris Martin Supports Hurricane Sandy Relief…
MBA Pay: The Devil’s in the Details Louis Lavelle, businessweek.com For many years, prospective business school students have studied the career stats for the nation’s top MBA programs like handicappers poring over the Daily Racing Form before the big race. But unlike that august publication,… http://flpbd.it/IFCzV
By Osha Gray Davidson, bloomberg.com InsideClimateNews.org (Phoenix, Arizona) — From a block away, the house was hardly visible, hidden by a dense stand of native mesquite and palo verde trees and tall clumps of prickly pear cactus. Close up, you could see the concrete block… http://flpbd.it/wYLbh Can the U.S. Create Its Own German-Style Energy Revolution?…
Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com Photograph by JB Reed/Bloomberg Political committees controlled by U.S. drugmakers including Johnson & Johnson and Eli…
By Eric Roston, bloomberg.com In the halting, measured language we’ve come to expect from his impromptu public remarks, President Obama posed a core dilemma of climate change yesterday at his first post-election press conference. Explaining the possible… Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change Related articles Keystone XL will “lock in” more climate…
Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com Photograph by JB Reed/Bloomberg Political committees controlled by U.S. drugmakers including Johnson & Johnson and Eli…
Tech Workers See Opportunity as Health-Care Law Kicks In By Jeff Green & Shannon Pettypiece -, bloomberg.com John Tricas said he heard opportunity knocking and learned networking software two decades ago, when it was the “next big thing.” Now he senses a similar opening as the health-care overhaul law takes effect. In September, the… http://flpbd.it/1fR6x…
Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP An epic fail early in his career taught HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples that it’s a good idea to hire folks who have a healthy familiarity with failure. You think you’ve had bad days? HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples once l… http://flpbd.it/vdiDV HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures Related articles HomeAway…
Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life Juan Enriquez, inc.com Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general. Most modern humans are now attempting to cram more data into their heads in a single…
With Scriptkit, Code Simple iPad Apps In The Time It Takes To Read This Post By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Even non-coders can use Scriptkit for iPad to prototype web-powered iPad apps, all without ever touching a keyboard. I’ve never coded a day in my life before 15 minutes ago, and as I write, I’m looking…
With Scriptkit, Code Simple iPad Apps In The Time It Takes To Read This Post By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Even non-coders can use Scriptkit for iPad to prototype web-powered iPad apps, all without ever touching a keyboard. I’ve never coded a day in my life before 15 minutes ago, and as I write, I’m looking…
Kickstarting: A Wi-Fi-Connected Light Socket Connects Any Bulb To Your iPhone By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com The Spark Socket takes a modular approach to internet-connected home automation, one bulb at a time. We should live in the Jetsons era by now, but despite all our innovations in computing power and the cloud, our houses remain pret……
Kickstarting: A Wi-Fi-Connected Light Socket Connects Any Bulb To Your iPhone By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com The Spark Socket takes a modular approach to internet-connected home automation, one bulb at a time. We should live in the Jetsons era by now, but despite all our innovations in computing power and the cloud, our houses remain pret……
An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com “Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem. In 2010, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design published… http://flpbd.it/P9kMS
By Neil Janowitz, fastcompany.com Lessons: “Sometimes people are offended by the name, which is obviously never our intention. But I’ve learned that we’re not here to please everyone, and I’m ok with that. Not everybody loves what we do—and that’s probably for … Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody Related articles…
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