Analysis – Page 318

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China becomes No. 2 ad market in the world

August 12, 2011

China will surpass Japan in total media spending this year.

Advertising in China, still developing compared to countries like the US and Japan, is beginning to catch up to the demand of consumer-facing companies looking to expand their reach among the world’s largest population and its growing buying power. eMarketer estimates that by the end of this year, ad spending in the China will increase enough to make the country the second-largest advertising market in the world.

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Top 10 high paying jobs that only require a high school degree

August 12, 2011

Smaller companies will hire a pilot without a college degree if they have enough logged flight time and aircraft knowledge.

Going to college used to be a nearly sure way of getting a steady job. A sure way of getting a steady job was getting a college degree. But many recent college graduates will tell you this is no longer the case.

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Crowdmug lets you pay strangers to be your social spies

August 11, 2011

It’s always a bummer when you decide to try something new, only to discover that it’s not your scene. Crowdmug for iOS helps you avoid these situations by harnessing the most effective crowd motivation tool of our time: money.

The premise is simple: offer cash for photos or videos of whatever place and people will answer…

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Analysis, Green Friendly, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Science & Technology News

Iowa: Now 20% wind-powered

August 12, 2011

Taking advantage of the wind in Iowa.

Iowa now gets a higher percentage of its power from wind than any other state in the nation. The Des Moines Register is reporting that Iowa’s wind generation hit the 20% mark last quarter, supplying the state with a full one fifth of its energy needs. That’s really good — like, Denmark good. Stats like this make it harder and harder for cleantech foes to deny that renewable power is fast becoming an integral part of the American energy mix…

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Information could escape from Black Holes after all, study suggests

August 11, 2011

Do black holes NOT swallow everything?

New research by scientists at the University of York gives a fresh perspective on the physics of black holes. Black holes are objects in space that are so massive and compact they were described by Einstein as “bending” space. Conventional thinking asserts that black holes swallow everything that gets too close and that nothing can escape, but the study by Prof. Samuel Braunstein and Dr. Manas Patra suggests that information could escape from black holes after all…

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Medical Breakthrough, Science & Technology News

New antiviral drug could destroy nearly any viral infection

August 11, 2011

Scientists have come up with a brand new drug called DRACO that seems to be able to hunt down and destroy any and all viruses.

Antibiotics, such as penicillin, can treat most bacterial infections. But when it comes to viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, antibiotics are useless.

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New gene therapy wipes out leukemia in three patients

August 11, 2011

The new gene therapy to treat leukemia uses the patients’ own blood cells to hunt down and wipe out their cancer.

The first clear success with gene therapy to treat leukemia, turning the patients’ own blood cells into assasins that hunt down and wipe out their cancer has been reported by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania.

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College students are addicted to technology: study

August 11, 2011

Students love technology.

It’s a fact that college students are obsessed with technology. Key surveys were performed recently to gauge students’ tech use scientifically. And OnlineEducation.net has made an infographic based on results from the student/technology study. (Infographic)

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Five ways technology is getting worse

August 10, 2011

Our technological world has plenty of pitfalls.

If you feel like you’re scrambling to keep up with technology, you’ve got plenty of company as technology has been moving forward in leaps and bounds. There’s not a gadget on the market that doesn’t aim to make our lives easier, but now we’re tangled up in a strange new world. It’s a complex web of tweets and roaming charges in which we we hunt for open power outlets with the urgency of our ancestors foraging for their next meal.

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Cable TV losing record number of subscribers

August 10, 2011

Eight of the nine largest subscription-TV providers in the U.S. lost 195,700 subscribers in the April-to-June quarter.

Americans spend a lot of free time in front of the TV set and that is where the weak economy is hitting them. Record numbers of people are canceling their cable and satellite TV subscriptions, according to an analysis by the Associated Press of the companies’ quarterly earnings reports.

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Small businesses think social media is unnecessary

August 10, 2011

64% of small businesses don’t think social media is necessary.

According to a new study, small businesses don’t seem to be swept up in the social media revolution.

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The diarrhea dance

August 9, 2011

This video was is part of a series designed to teach Japanese speakers the English language. Songs and dances help reinforce vocabulary lessons, including this very practical dialogue between a sick person and a passerby willing to call an ambulance. Also, it’s an exercise video. Stand up and dance with me. Come on!

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