If you haven’t seen the hysterical viral ad by the new start-up company Dollar Shave Club, you’re missing out. In just under a week, more than 3 million people have watched the ad campaign on YouTube, which cost just $4,500 to produce.
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Do you want to be a millionaire?
You should try building one of the following seven companies, says Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham, if you want to become a millionaire.
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If your answer was Monsanto, you were correct.
It’s been an interesting week for genetically engineered crops and farming in the U.S….
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SXSW 4G Hot Spot-a-go-go Clarence.
Treading a thin line between totally unethical/wrong and gainful temporary employment, companies at SXSW Music Festival are hiring homeless people to act as WiFi hotspots. Here’s how it works:…
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The demand for computer programmers has never been stronger and DaVinci Institute has decided to do something about it.
Starting in June, DaVinci Institute will be launching DaVinci Coders, an 11-week program designed to take passionate, driven people from zero to programmer in less than 90 days. DaVinci Coders is a new breed of beginner-level skills training center oriented around teaching inspired, passionate people the fine art of programming web applications…
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3D printed nanoscale race car.
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology decided to print a race car on a nanoscale, using lasers. “The focal point of the laser beam is guided through the resin by movable mirrors and leaves behind a polymerized line of solid polymer, just a few hundred nanometers wide. This high resolution enables the creation of intricately structured sculptures as tiny as a grain of sand.” This is a technique they call “two-photon lithography.” (Video)
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The body may compensate for the sugar rush of soft drinks by making its own supply of fats.
Men who drink only one sugar-laden soft drink every day could be dramatically increasing the odds of having a heart attack. A study of more than 40,000 men suggested that a daily sugar-sweetened drink raised the chances of having a heart attack – including a deadly one – by 20 per cent.
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Why do American children depend on their parents to do things for them that they are capable of doing for themselves?
Elinor Ochs, an anthropologist at the University of California, Los Angeles and her colleagues, have studied family life as far away as Samoa and the Peruvian Amazon region, but for the last decade they have focused on a society closer to home: the American middle class.
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On average, women make 77.4 percent of a man’s salary.
Women’s History Month is March and International Women’s Day was March 8th. International Women’s Day was first observed in the U.S. on Feb. 28, 1909. That day has come to symbolize women’s struggles for equal rights.
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Are you working for the fastest shrinking industry in the United States? You are, if you’re working for a newspaper according to this study by LinkedIn and the Council of Economic Advisors.
The fastest-growing industries include renewables (+49.2%), internet (+24.6%), online publishing (+24.3%), and e-learning (+15.9%). Fastest-shrinking industries were newspapers (-28.4%), retail (-15.5%), building materials (-14.2%), and automotive (-12.8%)…
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Self-healing, squishy hydrogels
One of biology’s greatest tricks is the ability to heal–to repair oneself repeatedly and thus sustain damage repeatedly, and one that humans have been trying to replicate in synthetic materials for years. Now, bioengineers at University of California, San Diego, have done so via a hydrogel that could be something of a game-changer in disciplines like medicine and materials science.
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Ambitious people are unhappier.
A new study found while people who are ‘go-getters’ are more likely to attend prestigious universities and hold high-paying jobs, they are only slightly happier than their less-ambitious counterparts—and actually live shorter lives.
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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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