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Commuter marriages on the rise

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David and Candice Knox spend about half the year together with a few weeks apart followed by a few working apart.

Candice and David Knox have been married for 13 years.  They met at a seminar 20 years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia.  The couple jokes they had to go through customs just to date. Little did they know four years ago when the economy tanked and Candice Knox got a job offer in Palm Desert, that the anniversary luggage he gave her 10 years ago would come in handy.

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App, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Entertainment, Human Behavior

How to optimize your caffeine intake: there’s an app for that

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Java monitoring control thru technology.

Two doctors at Penn State University have developed Caffeine Zone, a free iOS app that tells you the perfect time to take a coffee break to maintain an optimal amount of caffeine in your blood — and, perhaps more importantly, it also tells you when to stop drinking tea and coffee, so that caffeine doesn’t interrupt your sleep.

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Analysis, Business, Culture, Education, Entertainment, facebook, Historical Perspectives

Beyond Facebook: The rise of interest-based social networks

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Social networks have grown beyond what Facebook offers.

With the pending public offering of Facebook anticipated to be the largest tech IPO in history, it’s an interesting time to think about where we go from here. Some say “social is done,” Facebook is all the social media anyone would ever want or need. Unquestionably, as it nears one billion accounts, in the solar system of social media, Facebook is the Sun — the gravitational center around which everything social revolves.

But while some may pronounce that Facebook is all the social we’d ever need, users clearly haven’t gotten the memo. Instead, users are rapidly adopting new interest-based social networks such as Pinterest, Instagram, Thumb, Foodspotting, and even the very new Fitocracy…

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Analysis, Birth, Culture, Latest Trend

Majority of births among under 30 are to unmarried women

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Motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America.

Birth to unmarried women used to be called illegitimacy, now it is the new normal.  The share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold after steadily rising for five decades: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Humor

Student Loan STDs

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Student loans are very risky and can be contagious.

Before you engage in risky grad school enrollment, remember that you run a high risk of contracting a student loan. And once you’ve come down with one of those, it’s almost impossible to clean up.

If this applies to you, your partner, or you just like laughing about horrible indebtedness, full video after jump…

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Analysis, Big Problems, Business, Corporate Manipulation, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Current Events, Entertainment, Globalism, government, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues, Latest News

Congress and the EU are fighting to change Google’s privacy policy

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Are you ready for Google’s new privacy policy?

Google’s new privacy policy has already caused a stir among users. Now, Congress and EU regulators are sniffing around the changes and aren’t happy about them — but Google doesn’t seem to care in the slightest.

According to The Hill, house lawmakers questioned Google representatives for two hours yesterday about the changes, but they still aren’t satisfied with the company’s explanations. Speaking to The Hill, Representative Mary Bono Mack said…

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Analysis, Big Problems, Corporate Manipulation, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Current Events, Economy, Globalism, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues, New Viewpoints

Is there any hope for a non-genetically modified future in America, or Africa?

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It is really only a matter of time before our food crisis becomes crippling.

In the past few days a number of interesting articles have been circulating, all discussing genetically modified crops and starkly different versions of the future of food. One one hand we have the state of affairs in the US. On the other we have the future Bill Gates would like to manifest in Africa, all in the supremely laudable goal of reducing poverty and hunger, which looks an awful like the current situation in America.

It’s not a pretty picture, for people, for farmers, for the planet…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Health & Fitness, New Discoveries, New Viewpoints

Butt biometrics

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There’s a bad moon rising?

Last year, we heard about a new technology to identify individuals based on the pressure signature of their feet on the ground. Now, Japanese scientists at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology built a system that can identify an individual by the pressure signature of his or her ass. They’re not, er, resting on their laurels though. There’s work to be done!

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