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Quote of the Day: “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” – – Carl Gustav Jung
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Is there more to life than being happy?
There is more in live than being happy.
Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents in September 1942. When his camp was liberated three years later, most of his family, including his pregnant wife, had perished, but Frankl, prisoner number 119104, had lived. In Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl’s bestselling 1946 book, he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, he concluded that the difference between those who had lived and those who had died came down to one thing: Meaning, an insight he came to early in life. When he was a high school student, one of his science teachers declared to the class, “Life is nothing more than a combustion process, a process of oxidation.” Frankl jumped out of his chair and responded, “Sir, if this is so, then what can be the meaning of life?”
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The Rise of City Power
Futurist Thomas Frey: What, in your mind, will be the most powerful entity in the world 100 years from now?
As we look around us today, it’s easy to point to a single nation as being the most powerful. But will that still be true 100 years from now?
All publishers go mobile this year
Mobile readership offers publishers a new circulation revenue sources.
Media businesses have already gone through a first wave of digital transition, and in the last few years, mobile has been the next frontier. Publishers have been tasked with deciding whether to offer their content on the smaller-screen devices—and how.
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Chinese college graduates reluctant to pursue blue collar jobs
Graduates in China say no thank you to factory jobs.
Guangzhou, China, a city with a population of 15 million, is the hub of a manufacturing region where factories make everything from T-shirts and shoes to auto parts, tablet computers and solar panels. Despite the factories offering double-digit annual pay increases and better benefits, many are desperate for workers.
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Innovationews interviews DaVinci Institute founder and futurist Thomas Frey
Thomas Frey, Senior Futurist and Keynote Speaker
Thomas Frey is a futurist and keynote speaker who presents his ideas about the future to companies, government officials and others around the globe seeking guidance and insight in a rapidly changing world.
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Canada approves a startup visa for immigrant entrepreneurs
Canada approves startup visa for immigrants.
The Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), in partnership with the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) approved an official Start-Up Visa (SUV) pilot program for business class immigrants: the Start-Up Business class. The goal of the SUV program is to facilitate the immigration of a new type of immigrant entrepreneur to Canada with the potential to build innovative companies that compete on a global scale and create jobs for Canadians.
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Future Energy launches 2013 ARPA-E Innovation Summit
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Future Energy is a series of events that connects entrepreneurs, researchers, and private investors in the energy and clean-tech industries to develop and commercialize radical solutions to the world’s energy challenges.They are launching their first 2013 pitch event at this year’s ARPA-E Summit in Washington, D.C. on February 25. Eight companies will present their energy related projects and ideas to a distinguished panel of investors for Q&A and feedback.
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Top 5 hottest careers you may have never considered
There are plenty of job siting open despite the less-than-booming U.S. employment market. But there’s a mismatch between the skills that applicants have and the skills required for the careers that are in hot demand. Among employers, 25% reported that they had open positions in science and engineering that were hard to fill, and 18% said they were struggling to fill jobs in computer programming and information technology (IT), according to a 2011 report by McKinsey & Co. Looking ahead, employers could face a shortage of 85 million high- and medium-skilled workers worldwide by 2020.
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Top ed-tech trends for 2013
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2013 will see countless technological advancements, some of these will happen in education. Here’s a look at some of Edudemic.com’s ideas of what may happen in education in the next year. (Infographic)
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Video games should be consider an ‘experience, not just a product
Thatgamecompany’s PlayStation 3 exclusive game, Journey.
Video games are the most interactive form of entertainment we have but they have been slow to achieve the kind of experiential status that is often associated with art, music, literature, and film. Last year there were many titles released that challenged this notion. Among them was Thatgamecompany’s PlayStation3 exclusive, Journey, which has received heaps of praise and made many video game enthusiasts’ Game-of-the-Year lists.
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Intel to shut down its PC business by 2016
Intel has struggled to keep pace with its competitors in the PC motherboard category.
Intel has taken the first steps toward dissolving its PC motherboardproduction. If all goes according to plan, the entire division will be nonexistent by 2016.
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