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Analysis, Culture, Historical Perspectives, Latest Trend

The West is Becoming America’s New ‘Heartland’

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Missouri has been at the U.S. center since 1980 but the geography is clearly shifting, with the West beginning to emerge as America’s new heartland.

America’s population center is edging away from the Midwest, pulled by Hispanic growth in the Southwest, according to census figures. The historic shift is changing the nation’s politics and even the traditional notion of the country’s heartland — long the symbol of mainstream American beliefs and culture.

 

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Analysis, Big Problems, Economy, Latest Trend

Unemployment Rates Decline While Underemployment is on the Rise in the U.S.

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Study finds no one is immune to the possibility of experiencing underemployment.

While unemployment has been a frequent topic of discussion during the recession, underemployment and its effects have not, even though the number of underemployed workers has also increased. A study published online last week in the Journal of Management, “‘I Have a Job, But…’ A Review of Underemployment,” by University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor Frances M. McKee-Ryan and University of Alabama Assistant Professor Jaron Harvey brings attention to the topic and its potentially detrimental effects to individuals, organizations and society.

 

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, Internet, Latest News

New Dating Website Helps You Find Someone Who Looks Just Like You

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Lookin’ good!

Because that’s what we’re all looking for, right? Christina Bloom is the founder of FindYourFacemate.com, which will open for business later this month. She says that she was inspired to build the website after people kept telling her that she and her ex-husband look a lot alike. So this website will use facial mapping software to match you up with someone like you..

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

Corning’s “A Day Made of Glass” Video – The Future of Specialty Glass

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Can you imagine organizing your daily schedule with a few touches on your bathroom mirror? Chatting with far-away relatives through interactive video on your kitchen counter? Reading a classic novel on a whisper-thin piece of flexible glass?

 

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Analysis, Science & Technology News, Video Games

The Future of Gaming is in Sixty Year Old Technology

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Intel SSD technology

The future of gaming is more than 60 years old.

Back in the 1950s, researchers started playing around with a technology that would allow them to store data in a form of memory that had no moving parts. While the new tech was destined to be faster and more reliable than the giant discs used in today’s popular hard drives, it was also more expensive.

 

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

More British Swapping TV Dinners for PC Dinners

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Study: Three-fifths of people eat their evening meal in front of their computer.

Rise in Britons swapping TV dinners for PC dinners, according to a survey showing how many people eat while using the computer.  The study found three-fifths of people had settled down to eat their evening meal in front of a laptop or desktop.

Analysis, Big Problems, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Light-Emitting Technology Affecting Americans’ Sleep

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95% of the people surveyed reported using some type of electronic device within an hour of bedtime at least a few nights a week.

Americans aren’t getting enough sleep, and technology may be the culprit.

In the National Sleep Foundation’s 2011 Sleep in America poll, out today, 95% of the 1,508 people surveyed reported using some type of electronic device — such as a TV, computer, video game or cellphone — within an hour of bedtime at least a few nights a week.

 

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Analysis, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Current Events, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, Latest News, New Discoveries

Ensuring the Authenticity of Your Programming… With Paid, Planted Callers

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Well, here’s a shocker: Some of the people who phone in to talk radio shows (that caller with the pitch-perfect rant, provocative comment or burning question) may actually be hired actors reading from scripts. I’m not an angry listener, but I play one on radio!

If [the actor] passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio. He would never be identified as an actor, and his scenarios would never be identified as fabricated—which they always were…

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Discover the Hidden Patterns of Tomorrow with Futurist Thomas Frey
Unlock Your Potential, Ignite Your Success.

By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.

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