Russian space agency rescuers helping US astronaut Cady Coleman leave the Soyuz TMA-20 capsule shortly after landing.
Men walked on the Moon, but according to a gathering of top female space experts this week, women will be among the pioneering explorers who someday step foot on Mars.
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“There is no future in any job. The future lies in
the person who holds the job.” – George W. Crane
Futurist Thomas Frey: One of my primary complaints with higher education is that they tend to prepare students for jobs of the past. The way a Midwesterner would phrase it, “they are constantly shooting behind the duck.”
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Credit unions added more new members during that month than in all of 2010.
Credit unions are benefiting from the backlash against big banks over new fees. And in Texas, credit unions gained $326 million in new deposits from 47,000 new members during the month leading up to the so-called Bank Transfer Day. The Saturday event was orchestrated by an online campaign urging consumers to move their money from banks to the generally smaller credit unions.
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Ben Milne, Founder of Dwolla
Dwolla is a tiny 12-person startup churning out of Des Moines, Iowa that most people have never heard of. It was founded by 28-year-old Ben Milne, and it’s an innovative new way of thinking about online payments that sidesteps credit cards completely.
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The dots in the campaign’s logo reate a “21st-century brand”.
“United States of Awesome Possibilities” – The tagline for a new ad campaign designed to promote the U.S. of A., an effort to boost business and leisure travel in order to spur economic growth, Advertising Age reports.
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The brainwaves were assessed using an electroencephalography (EEG) machine.
Neuroscientists discover that two-way “conversations” with people in a permanent vegetative state will be possible thanks to an inexpensive device that can read their brain activity.
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A close-up image of the new material. A section has been removed to show the vertical nanotubes.
Engineers at Nasa have come up with a material that absorbs more than 99 per cent of all light that strikes it.
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We don’t know how this guy managed to build a 3,118 coin coin tower on top of a single dime on the corner of a table but boy did he do it. It took him 7 hours, over 200 dollars in change plus some presumably insane weed smoking to pull it off…
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Yup, helmet required.
In a lovely design juxtaposition, this custom motorcycle features a pair of jet engines mounted to a frame modeled after a 1929 Harley-Davidson design. It can reach 200 MPH, and in truly Harley fashion, does so loudly…
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How much sex is enough?
How much sex is enough to keep everyone happy? That question can be one of the biggest issues in a marriage.
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A few flashes and it is under control.
Recently there was a new breakthroughs where scientists were able to make programmable cells that can potentially create new life forms. Now we’re reading about yeast that can be controlled with a computer and flashes of light…
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U.S. foreclosures have climbed to 230,678 in October, up 7% from September, reports Realty Trac.
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