If you want to further your education without paying the big bucks, consider creating your own master’s program.
Getting a master’s degree has probably crossed your mind if you have been thinking about furthering your education.
Continue reading… “7 easy steps for designing your own master’s degree”
If scientists could boost the brain’s ability to function, they may be able to counter dementias.
For the first time ever, scientists have shown that people who have a variant of a gene called KLOTHO also have improved cognitive abilities, including better memories and enhanced thinking skills.
Continue reading… “Longevity gene may enhance brain power”
The average loan-holding 2014 college graduate will have to pay back $33,000.
The class of 2014 deserves our congratulations, but not for graduating — though that’s nice, too — but for earning one of the more dubious distinctions in recent memory: You’ve officially been named “the most indebted class ever.”
Continue reading… “Congratulations class of 2014, the most indebted class in history”
Scientists discovered a technique that should produce electrons and positrons by colliding two sets of super-energetic photons.
For a long time, scientists have theorized that you can create matter from light by colliding photons. Proving that theory has been a different story — you need the right high-energy particles to even think of trying. However, it looks like that once-impossible dream is close to becoming reality.
Continue reading… “Scientists discover a way to create matter from light”
At TED2014, the speakers and attendees were asked to riff off the conference’s theme (“The Next Chapter”) and tell them what might radically change society, life, technology and so on in the next 30 years. The answers may surprise you.
Continue reading… “26 ideas from the future that might surprise you”
Smartphones, which are constantly seeking and retrieving data, don’t make sense without the cloud, and any business that isn’t racing to push its data and software into someone else’s data center is setting itself up for disruption by a competitor who is.
Continue reading… “The future of tech is ‘fog’ computing”
Lazy people are the best customers.
The ultimate customers are lazy, anti-social people. To be assured of success today, create a service that appeals to people just active enough to push a button but too lazy to check their bank statements.
Continue reading… “Uber has taught us that the best customers are lazy people”
The words ‘chemical’ and ‘poison’ have become interchangeable in the popular consciousness. As a result the whole subject of chemistry has become tainted with unpleasant connotations.
Continue reading… “Manmade or natural, tasty or toxic, they are all chemicals”
Today’s customers and retailers are getting serious about how they implement and manage the customer experience.
Members of Avaaz, a global advocacy group.
When the news hit Reddit that the Federal Communications Commissions’ plans to consider paid priority on the Internet, the question wasn’t so much whether the move was a good idea, it was “How do I best tell my elected representative that this is a horrible idea?”
Continue reading… “Top 5 arguments against net neutrality”
Internet of Things start in the home.
The Internet of Things is poised to be the next wave of technology to wash over Silicon Valley and it may create a $290 billion global market by 2017, building on past tech waves like mobile, software, personal computers and semiconductors.
Continue reading… “The Internet of Things will be a $290B market by 2017 that starts at home”
FDA vouchers were created as an incentive to encourage drug companies to work on medicines for neglected diseases.
In March, when the Food and Drug Administration gave the OK to a new treatment for a parasitic disease called leishmaniasis, the Canadian company that owns the medicine got something that’s quite likely to prove even more valuable than U.S. sales of the drug will ever be.
Continue reading… “FDA vouchers encourage drug companies to focus on neglected diseases”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
Learn More about this exciting program.