Fox News adjusts to new reality as it faces four more years of Obama Paul Harris in New York, guardian.co.uk It’s the go-to network for outraged conservatives – but now Fox News has benched two high-profile pundits, and shown signs of retreat. Is the US’s biggest cable news network going moderate? For America’s liberals, it…
My Traveling Tiny House Site by Sophic, tinyhouselistings.com Posted by Steven on November 26, 2012 // 34 Comments By Christy Dean Four months ago I moved out of my 2 bedroom home and into this tiny (mobile) house. I’m traveling the country in my little nest and I love it! It gets a lot of……
How To Design a Lucky Life Trent Hamm, lifehacker.com Is luck a supernatural thing that we have no control over, represented by four leaf clovers and gold pots at the end of the rainbow? For The Simple Dollar’s Trent Hamm, luck is defined as the result of some of the many random events in life……
Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences core77.com Today’s global financial and social crises demand innovation not only in public services, but within the whole bureaucratic, administrative system of public governance. In order to respond effectively to a changing context of… RT @core77: Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences – Paper by @Nesta_UK &…
Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science (and Common Sense) Alan Henry, lifehacker.com The end goal of “productivity” is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do. Of course, if you follow every morsel of productivity advice out there, you probably…
SodaStream’s Banned Ad Helps Home Carbonation Company Hit It Big Rachel Tepper, huffingtonpost.com An ad for SodaStream, a home carbonation product, has been making the rounds worldwide. In it, bottles of soda seem to combust spontaneously every time someone uses the SodaStream elsewhere in the world. The takeaway: why pay for… http://flip.it/BgTFD Related articles 3…
‘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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign,…
Eric V. Holtzclaw, inc.com LEAN FORWARD Instead, I give candidates permission to stalk me. They should find out what I’m up to, track me down, introduce themselves, let me get to know them. It works. People often ask me how to get a job at my company, User Insight. T… http://flpbd.it/JhhGm Why I Never Post…
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