Great lies continue to be propagated
Futurist Thomas Frey: In early 2003 I had a conversation with Dee Hock, founder and former CEO of VISA. At the time we were interested in hiring him to be the keynote speaker at our upcoming Future of Money Summit, an event that would take place in November of that year.
Continue reading… “Eight False Promises of the Internet”
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There’s nothing better than sitting on the beach, watching the surfers tear it up except for sitting on the beach and watching the surfers light it up.
Continue reading… “Flare surfing – the hottest thing on water”
Nearly 14 million people are out of a job and actively looking for work.
All of the economic news recently appears to be raising fears again among some American workers that they’re going to be getting a pink slip instead of a pay check.
Continue reading… “30% of American workers worried about getting laid off”
Second year in a row Fort Collins takes top honors.
The Allstate Insurance Company has released its seventh annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report™.” The report ranks America’s 200 largest cities in terms of car collision frequency to identify which cities have the safest drivers, according to Allstate claim data.
Continue reading… “Fort Collins, Colorado has nation’s safest drivers: study”
The gap between CEO and average U.S. worker pay rose from a ratio of 263-to-1 in 2009 to 325-to-1 last year.
A report released Wednesday from the Institute for Policy Studies shows many large companies pay more to CEOs in compensation than they did in corporate income taxes to the federal government in 2010.
Continue reading… “Top 25 CEO’s earned more than their company’s tax bills”
Men aged 20 to 39 consumed 252 calories a day from beverages containing added sugar.
Almost half of the population drinks a sugar-sweetened beverage on any given day. But teenagers and young men consuming way more than recommended limits for staying healthy.
Continue reading… “Teens, young men consume way more sugary drinks than recommended limits”
PodPonics
PodPonics is new hope for urban agriculture. The startup, based in Atlanta, is pursuing a new kind of recycling. They are transforming old shipping containers into miniature hydroponic farms that can be used to grow food anywhere. Matt Liotta started PodPonics in 2010 and it is already supplying about 200 pounds of leafy greens a week using six converted containers. About one acre’s worth of produce can be produced in each “pod” which is in only 320 square feet. PodPonics crops use 90% less water than traditional farms, no pesticides, less fertilizer, and go from harvest to your plate in just a matter of hours! (Pics)
Continue reading… “PodPonics – shipping containers transformed into miniature hydroponic farms”
Wreckage of a Turkish Airlines aircraft.
“Automation addiction” has eroded their flying skills of pilots to the point that they sometimes don’t know how to recover from stalls and other mid-flight problems, say pilots and safety officials. The weakened skills have contributed to hundreds of deaths in airline crashes in the last five years.
Continue reading… “‘Automation addiction’ – Have pilots forgotten how to fly?”
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks about the Medicare Fraud Strike Force.
Federal health care fraud prosecutions in the first eight months of 2011 are on pace to rise 85% over last year due in large part to ramped-up enforcement efforts under the Obama administration, according to new government statistics.
Continue reading… “Health care fraud prosecutions could rise 85% in 2011”
Women dominate ereader ownership.
Women have been slow to adopt tablets but they do dominate eReader ownership, according to recent data by Nielsen.
Continue reading… “61% of eReader owners are women”
Harry Markopolis, Madoff whistleblower
Harry Markopolos, the man whose e-mails detailing Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme were ignored by the Securities and Exchange Commission has a new target — foreign exchange fraud.
Continue reading… “The next big financial scam – foreign exchange fraud”
The changes in the rules will be the biggest shake-up in a generation.
The Department of Health in Britain is to announce plans for a new system of independent counseling for women before they finally commit to terminating a pregnancy. The move is designed to give women more “breathing space”.
Continue reading… “Abortion laws to be tightened in Britain”
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