Paying superstar programmers tens of millions of dollars is called the “Kobe Bryant effect.”
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen says that engineers are being paid their “true value” in the technology industry, where some engineers are drawing multi-million dollar paychecks.
Continue reading… “‘Superstar programmers’ can get paid as much as a pro athlete”
More than 1.78 million middle and high school students nationwide had tried e-cigarettes in 2012.
Electronic cigarettes use among middle and high school students has been rising rapidly, a trend that public health officials worry could undermine decades of efforts to reduce youth smoking and put a growing number of teenagers on a path toward conventional cigarettes.
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Like the unemployment rate, the employment-population ratio is also affected by labor participation.
The US jobs report last week added to a long string of lackluster monthly installments of data, but at least one thing has been looking up: The unemployment rate is ticking down steadily, dropping almost a tenth of a percentage point with each new report.
Continue reading… “Here’s what you might have missed about the U.S. jobs report”
Ninety percent of the overall decline in enrollment was from students over 25.
For the first time in six years the number of college students has declined, according to new Census figures released this week. The half-a-million-student drop is “a huge decline,” Census Bureau statistician Julie Siebens told me. This sounds like bad news, but it could actually be a sign of good news. It means the labor market is — slowly, but surely — getting better.
Continue reading… “College enrollment declined in 2012, but for good reasons”
Reported high rates of childlessness fail to take into account fertility treatments, adoptions and the simple delay of childbirth.
Recent reports of the rise of childlessness are premature. As with fertility dynamics generally, the phenomenon has many parts. The reports may prove true in the long term, or they may not—but it’s too soon to tell.
Continue reading… “Are reported high rates of childlessness a myth?”
The car industry has accounted for 15 percent of post-2009 GDP growth.
America’s amazing car recovery explains the U.S. economy. But how does the U.S. economy explain America’s amazing auto recovery?
Continue reading… “The future of the U.S. auto industry in 14 charts”
Piggyback on a thriving network as long as your platform is contextual and complementary to that network.
When creating a two-sided network one of the key challenges is deciding how to get both sides on board. What does a marketplace do first – get the consumer or the merchant first? Why would either side join without the other? It’s a chicken and egg problem that often occurs during the initial stages of seeding. A great way to gain traction for such a network is to steal traction from another one.
Continue reading… “The growing success of piggybacking”
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, purchased the Washington Post for $250 million.
Jeff Bezos , Amazon’s CEO, may be able to transfer his Midas touch from Amazon to usher in a “Golden Era” for the newspaper industry. He has announced that he plans to provide guidance “from a distance” – the secret to this experiment will ultimately come down to Bezos’ infamous personality.
Continue reading… “Can Jeff Bezos reinvent the newspaper industry?”
Futurist Thomas Frey: With all of the water we have in the world, only 2% of it is fresh water. To make matters worse, only one-forth of all fresh water is accessible to humans.
Continue reading… “Tapping into the Waterways in the Sky”
The numbers of people who pay for any type of TV service are in decline.
There’s another dismal set of numbers for the TV business from Q2 2013. About 1.8 million people ended their cable TV subscriptions during the second quarter, according to analysts at SNL Kagan.
Continue reading… “Another 1.8 million people drop their cable TV subscriptions this year”
In 2004, 30% of undergraduate computer science degrees awarded at Carnegie Mellon were to women.
Allan Fisher, the Associate Dean of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, realized there was a gender ratio problem in the department in 1995. Only 7% of freshman computer science majors were women. Along with Jane Margolis, a social scientist, Fisher tried to figure out what they could do to change the ratio. By 2000, 42% of the freshman class was made up of women.
Researchers at Rice University have developed a supercapacitor that can operate at very high temperatures, using clay as a key ingredient.
Continue reading… “Researchers develop a new supercapacitor for energy storage at high temperatures”
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