Bestow brains to your branches.
Does your tree need a little more intelligence? If so, you might benefit from one (or all) of these great ornaments featuring some of the most famous women from science history…
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Forget the holiday party this year, employees want cash.
Companies shouldn’t bother planning to spend thousands of dollars for staff Christmas parties, even with open bars because most U.S. employees would prefer money.
Continue reading… “Employees prefer cash bonus to holiday party in 2011: Survey”
Kids get monthly fun delivered to their door with The BabbaBox.
The BabbaBox is a monthly membership based kit targeting ages 3-6 that’s delivered to your home with ALL the physical materials plus know-how content to really engage with your kids through experiences and activities you can do together…
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A record number of background checks for gun purchases were performed over the Black Friday weekend, the FBI says.
Black Friday shoppers seized hot items like sleek flat-screen televisions, smartphones, computers and cut-rate designer clothing, But the shoppers also seized on another hot item for 2011: guns.
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Scientists discover biggest black holes known to exist — each one 10 billion times the mass of our sun.
Concerts simply aren’t the same as they used to be.
A visual revolution has been brewing in the image rendering and video projection realms transforming musical events into an entirely new multi-level experience. Objects resembling giant, white Tetris blocks on a stage suddenly are transformed into living video art that throbbed and pulsed along with the music. Audience members visit outer space and see spaceships fly by and explode in amazing high definition imagery. Cyber machines chug and churn before morphing into green blocks of electric contemplation and much, much more…
Continue reading… “V-Squared Labs Brings Visual Alchemy To A Performance”
Serious snowballing.
In Japan, snowball fighting isn’t just a pleasant winter pastime. It’s a serious competitive sport known as Yukigassen or “snow battle.” Two teams square off on a field about the size of a hockey rink. Victory comes through annihilating the other team or capturing its flag.
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Construction has been hit the hardest.
Jordan Weismann of the Atlantic puts together a graph that shows how construction had the worst percentage loss of jobs in the country, over one in four jobs lost in total. He writes…
Continue reading… “Green Building is key to rebooting the economy”
Cop car of the near future.
Police cars of the future will be equipped with eight cameras, voice commands, incredibly intelligent software, and LTE radios, perps won’t get away with anything.
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More virtual classrooms coming soon!
Some readers may be familiar with Khan Academy, an awesome eLearning platform that offers students, self-starters and everyone in between the opportunity to learn at their own pace by watching instructive videos on subjects that range from arithmetic to physics. The non-profit startup has been growing like gangbusters of late, and now has more than 2,600 videos in its library. To date, Khan Academy has largely focused on math and science learning, but the startup plans to use new funding to expand into the humanities, and develop curricula for a blended physical and virtual academic experience…
Continue reading… “Late Nite Labs to bring virtual science education to campuses”
Nearly three-quarters of adults surf the Web for no reason.
A new study confirms that many of us — and the majority of young adults — go online for no good reason at all.
Continue reading… “Majority of adults go online for no reason: study”
Greenpeace activists shout slogans during a protest.
The UK has spent more than $938.7 million on securing an international agreement on climate change and promoting green technologies in developing countries since April 2006, according to Government spending reports.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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