Where do small business owners get the money to expand their businesses? Many entrepreneurs, policy makers, and academics have wondered about that same question but thanks to the efforts of researchers at the Census Bureau, we know the answer.
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Drop the trash into a pneumatic tube and the pneumatic garbage removal system sucks it to a central processing facility.
Songdo, South Korea is the city of the future.
When you’re building a new city, there’s plenty of technology and features to consider that either didn’t exist or weren’t practical in the past. These range from in-building technology to the municipal systems, from private perks to public services.
An agronomist measures and records corn growth and other processes.
Many U.S. colleges see a boom in enrollment for agriculture as students flock to study subjects they feel offer a clear path to a job on graduation.
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Chemotherapy works by inhibiting reproduction of fast-dividing cells such as those found in tumors.
A new study that came out Sunday has found that cancer-busting chemotherapy can cause damage to healthy cells which triggers them to secrete a protein that sustains tumor growth and resistance to further treatment.
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Twitter has the opportunity to become extraordinarily aligned with their best users.
Advertisers are the actual customer of the TV networks – not the viewers. Both of these groups had similar goals for a long time. Viewers wanted shows they wanted to watch and advertisers wanted lots of viewers to watch these shows. So the TV networks used ratings as a proxy for advertiser happiness and there wasn’t much of a problem.
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If you had a choice of flying from Boston to San Diego in a plane piloted by a single machine or the combined intelligence of 3,000 people, which would you choose?
Legs just don’t grow on trees!
Quote of the Day: “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
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DirecTV revealed its first ever quarterly customer losses, with some 52,000 homes dropping the service in the second quarter.
High unemployment, a weak housing market ombined with a mature business prone to regular programming blackouts has seen more than 400,000 American homes drop their pay-TV service since the start of the year.
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Great Britain’s Olympic men’s rowing four.
Which Olympic athletes go on to be most successful in business? New research by Bain & Co. shows rowers have the best track record of breaking into the corporate world after their Olympic careers.
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The “Irrelevant Sound Effect”, is all about the way background sounds can interfere with our short-term memory.
A lot of people like to listen to music while they work. Previous research suggests this is probably not a bad thing. In lab studies, people who listen to music they like, generally perform better at mental tasks afterwards, an effect that’s been attributed to boosts in mood and arousal.
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How many times have you forgotten one of your numerous passwords? Do you groan every time a site requests a new password? Have you noticed that passwords are becoming more complex and much harder to remember? Here is a solution!
The device is called passwordsFAST. It is a cleverly created stand alone security device (the size of a credit card) that safely stores multiple passwords.
passwordsFAST is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart, so you can check out what all the buzz is about.
Inventor LeAnn Bell managed to free up some time recently to answer a few questions about the international struggle to remember passwords, selling millions of units worldwide and draining an IRA to fund the project…
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Repeated studies have shown that many people who begin an exercise program lose little or no weight.
Two groundbreaking new studies address the irksome question of why so many of us who work out remain so heavy, a concern that carries special resonance at the moment, as lean Olympians slip through the air and water, inspiring countless viewers to want to become similarly sleek.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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