Science experts rank the refrigerator as Invention #1.
The UK’s national academy of science, The Royal Society asked a question: What are the most meaningful innovations in humanity’s culinary history? What mattered more to the development of civilization’s cultivation of food: the oven? The fridge? The plough? The spork?
Continue reading… “Top 20 most important inventions in the history of food and drink”
On Thursday, the New York City Board of Health voted to ban the sale of sugary soft drinks larger than 16 ounces at restaurants. This is a move that has sparked intense debate between public health advocates and beverage industry lobbyists. When did sodas get so big in the first place?
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn on your television and it instantly knew what show you wanted to watch?
We all dream of an easier life, so what if we got into our car and it knew where we wanted to go, or turned on a radio and it played the perfect music, or pressed “call” on our phone and we would instantly be connected to the person we most wanted to talk to.
Continue reading… “Anticipatory Computing: Unlocking the Ultra-Human in All of Us”
It just makes sense to announce pricing and ship dates as soon as they’re known.
When Apple has a new product coming out, one of the nice things they do is tell you how much it will cost and when it will go on sale. Apple’s competitors only sometimes do and that is especially true in the phone industry.
Continue reading… “Why Apple announces iPhone cost and availability when competitors don’t”
Scientists, like anyone else, can be prone to bias in their bid for a place in the history books.
For several years, Dirk Smeesters had spent his career as a social psychologist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam studying how consumers behaved in different situations. He studied whether color had an effect on what consumers bought or if death-related stories in the media affected how people picked products. And whether it was better to use supermodels in cosmetics advertising than average-looking women.
Continue reading… “Scientific research threatened by fraud and misconduct”
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What will phones look like in 10 years?
The mobile is pretty well-established in the near future. The iPhone 5 has been released and it is similar to every iPhone that has been released since 2007. That shows that our current mobile devices have been sitting on the same plateau for years.
Continue reading… “What will mobile phones look like in 2022?”
821,000 households opted out of the banking system from 2009 to 2011.
More Americans have limited or no interaction with banks in the aftermath of one of the worst recessions in history. Instead more people are relying on check cashers and payday lenders to manage their finances, according to a new federal report.
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Obama signs the JOBS Act
Poyan Rajamand faced a choice when he completed his degree from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2008. Would he look for work in the United States or relocate abroad? Rajamand explained in a report written by the Partnership for a New America Economy and the Partnership for New York City, that he and his fiancé arrived at their decision easil. They would move to Singapore, where obtaining a visa was simpler for high-skilled immigrants than here in the United States. In his new home, Rajamand has founded a startup called Barghest Partners that invests in new businesses.
Continue reading… “If you want more jobs in America, you need more immigrants”
The best way to fix the customer’s experience problems is from her side of the marketplace: the demand side.
“Put down the customer. Step away from the marketplace,” Craig Burton once said to a clueless marketing officer That also comes to mind when you hear about unwanted surveillance of customers rationalized for marketing purposes, or how Big Data lets a company know a customer better than she knows herself.
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Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif.
Often blamed for the steep job losses in U.S. manufacturing is the rise of robotic automation in the manufacturing and packaging industry along with the rampant outsourcing of labor to cheaper workforces. But a real look at the facts and stats show that things just aren’t that cut and dry. (Infographic)
Continue reading… “Infographic: Robots bring jobs back to the U.S.”
The rate of children entering private schools without all of their shots jumped by 10 percent last year.
An Associated Press analysis has found that parents who send their children to private schools in California are much more likely to opt out of immunizations than their public school counterparts, an Associated Press analysis. Even the recent re-emergence of whooping cough hasn’t halted the downward trajectory of vaccinations among these students.
Continue reading… “Vaccination opt-outs on the rise in private schools”
There are other ways to generate a return on capital—and help move the economic recovery.
Over the past 24 months It is well known that America’s largest companies have been stockpiling cash over at alarming rates. It has been estimated from $1.5 trillion to $2.8 trillion. And at first blush, who can blame them? With interest rates at historic lows, market volatility, political uncertainty, the European crisis, severe commodity price fluctuations, and other unpredictable market conditions, corporate brands and executives have been understandably inclined to sit on the sidelines.
Continue reading… “Putting sidelined cash to work to help move the economic recovery”
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