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Analysis, Crazy Stuff, Historical Perspectives

For the cheapest airline tickets, start shopping on Tuesday afternoon

September 14, 2011

To get the best deal on a domestic airline ticket, there’s a lot of timing to take into consideration. Travel site FareCompare has meticulously gathered all the data to suggest when exactly to start looking for your ticket and when to purchase.
FareCompare says that airfare sales typically are filed late Monday evening, so you should start looking and shopping for domestic tickets between Tuesday morning and 3pm EST…

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Current Events, Entertainment, Great New Product, Great Videos, New Viewpoints

Finally, YouTube will let you edit your videos online

September 14, 2011

If you upload your videos to YouTube—or most video sharing sites for that matter—there isn’t much you can do to improve them after the fact. Starting today, though, YouTube will finally provide basic tools to make your kitty videos suck less.

YouTube is rolling out the new feature in the form of a simple “Edit Video” button on your My Videos page. It’s a little like if they just took their cloud-based editor and sucked it back into the site…

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Analysis, Education, top 10

Top 10 best colleges in the U.S.

September 14, 2011

Princeton and Harvard tie as top ranked National University.

Harvard University tied Princeton University as the top-ranked National University in U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 rankings of Best Colleges. Last year, Harvard stood alone as the best ranked National University, a category that encompasses large, research-oriented schools.

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Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Airplanes offer airbag devices in some seatbelts

September 14, 2011

Seatbelt airbag deployed.

Airbags have been added to some airplanes, and they’re not just a special perk for first-class passengers.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

Where America’s millionaires live

September 14, 2011

Fisher Island, Florida is home to a dense collection of yachts and millionaires.

Where do this country’s most prosperous citizens hang out? How much money do they have? President Obama wants them to pay a bit more in taxes. But how much are they coughing up now?

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

5 biggest job cuts announcements in 2011

September 14, 2011

U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahue

U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahue prepares to testify at Senate hearing on the the U.S. Postal Service’s fiscal crisis on Sept. 6 Senate. The postal service’s 7,500 job cuts announced in March rank No. 5 on outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas’s list of 2011 announced workforce reductions.

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Games, Great New Product, Great Videos, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

Easy Fill and Tie – a fun kid approved tool for making water balloons

September 14, 2011

Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011

Easy Fill and Tie is a specially designed kid-approved device that provides a revolutionary to fill and tie water balloons easily, quickly and finger friendly. (videos)

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Analysis, Baby Gadgets, Breakthrough Thinking, Great New Product, Green Friendly, Health & Fitness, Latest News

Dirty diapers? Knowaste will turn them into roofing material

September 13, 2011

A new destination for diapers.

For those of us who wince every time a dirty diaper is discarded, take heart: Canadian company Knowaste can now transform those soiled, disposable nappies into roofing material. That’s right, billions of baby-poop gems and even adult ‘accidents’ due to incontinence, are ripe for the picking and destined for our roofs, thanks to a process that transforms diaper waste into plastic pellets, which can then be made into roofing tiles and tubing.

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Analysis, Culture, Historical Perspectives, Latest News

U.S. Residents grade their States

September 13, 2011

Residents were asked to rate their states among factors such as economy, education, and things to do. In total, 293 people responded with an average of 5 per state…

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Internet, Medical Breakthrough, New Discoveries

JiffPad creates personalized medical diagrams via iPad

September 13, 2011

Attempting to “reinvent healthcare communication,” Jiffpad is an app that lets doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals communicate with patients via the iPad.

Allowing users to select from already provided medical diagrams or upload pictures of their own, the app creates a “JiffTalk,” digitizing the communication between a doctor and a patient and creating a digital record of medical instruction that patients can then email home or share with their families…

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