What is your favorite coffee and what does it say about you?
People are always tying to figure out how to label themselves. We are going to take a closer look at what your choice of coffee says about you, and how you can subconsciously tell people you are more sophisticated (or whatever you want to say about yourself). (Infographic)
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Pharmacy clinics provide the sort of basic care that most people need at a fraction of the cost.
The U.S. is getting fatter, older, and in need of more medical care. There’s a huge opportunity for companies to really disrupt the American health care system because of this. The opportunity waits in plain sight at your local pharmacy, and some companies like Walgreens and CVS have taken notice and hope that you will too.
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Engaged employees who had a lot of flextime at work had a 44 percent higher level of well-being than disengaged employees with very little to no flextime.
Talent Plus, like many companies across the Midlands, finds summer an ideal time for employees to take off. But employees at the Lincoln-based human resources firm don’t go through the formal process of accruing their leave. They check with their manager, coordinate with others in their department and take time off from a limitless bank of days and hours. In short, co-chairman Kimberly Rath said, no questions asked, as long as the work gets done.
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The possibilities are endless when it comes to 3D printing, form spider robots to prosthetics for ducks. Researchers at North Carolina State University took the technology one step further with the discovery of a method for printing liquid metal.
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Sometimes fast food requires patience, lots of patience!
Quote of the Day: “He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.” – Billy Wilder
Atlas
Meet Atlas, a massive humanoid robot was unveiled by DARPA at the headquarters of Boston Dynamics, just outside Boston. Atlas was built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), whose goal is to advance disaster response robotics. The hope is that Atlas is the first step towards the day when robots, not humans, will be sent to help mitigate major catastrophes, such as the Fukushima nuclear accident. (Photos and video)
People are shopping on their phones more so than ever before.
You won’t need to carry a wallet in the not-so-distant future. Smartphones are transforming the way we pay for things online and offline, but mobile payments still have a long way to go before they’re ubiquitous.
Futurist Thomas Frey: Fifteen years ago I found myself stranded in the small town of Faith, South Dakota. It was 3:00 am in the morning and my car was out of gas. To give you a better idea of my predicament, this tiny town of 400 people was located 100 miles away from any significant cities.
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Job fair in China for college graduates.
College students in the U.S. facing the misery of an anemic post-graduation job market have company in an unlikely-seeming place: China. Despite entering a robust economy that seemed to weather the financial crisis as if were it a middling squall, China’s college graduates on average make only 300 yuan, or roughly $44, more per month than the average Chinese migrant worker, according to statistics cited over the weekend by a top Chinese labor researcher and reported today by the Beijing Times (in Chinese).
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Millennials engage in nearly every online shopping activity.
Millennials have grown up embracing the deep discounts and convenience offered by online shopping. A January 2013 survey from ad agency DDB Worldwide of US web users’ attitudes toward ecommerce found that both males and females ages 18 to 34 were more likely than their 35- to 64-year-old counterparts to engage in nearly every online shopping activity, with 40% of males and 33% of females in the younger age group reporting that ideally they would buy everything online.
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University of Maryland engineers are currently working on a battery made of wood, an innovative, low-cost, environmentally friendly idea. The research team used tiny wood fibers from yellow pine trees to make test batteries — and we mean seriously tiny, the tree fibers are a thousand times thinner than a piece of paper. They use sodium rather than lithium, so the team imagines this battery working best in a large-scale environment, like for storing solar energy at a power plant.
The mega rich are getting richer.
Last year, there were a record-breaking 12 million people around the world who were millionaires, with the US experiencing the biggest jump in super-rich residents.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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