Not even a college degree is going to help much.
Is this the New Normal? Incomes have fallen since the new millennium began and aren’t expected to catch up until 2021, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of economists’ forecasts.
Continue reading… “Wages remain stagnant and won’t catch up until 2021”
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Today kids think the world revolves around them. They think that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
Continue reading… “Baby plays with a magazine like it’s an iPad: video”
Focusing on money and possessions can take a toll on couples’ happiness and stability.
Married couples who are materialistic may have more money, but they also have more relationship problems, according to a new study.
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Behold nature and its wonders! Tobias Lunchbreath understands that true happiness lies in the Oreo-fueled cycle of life.
Crowdsourcing for innovation.
Numerous studies demonstrate that 70-80% of all new products fail. Lack of relevance, lack of differentiation, inappropriate pricing and muddled messaging all factor into a brand’s struggle when launching a new product.
However, the ultimate judgment of new products falls to consumers, who, ironically, are often absent from the development process. That development stage stands the greatest chance of generating transformative new ideas early on, before the brand has made a significant investment…
Where do passwords go when you die?
I have pretty secure passwords, as much to keep would-be miscreants at bay as to keep my friends and family from finding out just how horrible a life I’m living. But according to a study, a full 11 percent of Brits plan to leave their passwords in their will.
There’s some sense to that, actually…
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The eleMMent
If you are in the market for a futuristic and slightly bizarre motor home it’s check out the eleMMent. You’ll be the envy of the trailer park when you pull up in this 500 horsepower, 40-foot long monstrosity, which features a fireplace, a pop-up sky lounge with fog machine, and paint that glows in the dark. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Marchi Mobile’s futuristic RV is available in the present”
Cars are about to get connected to the internet like never before.
One of the great mobile devices we have is the car. And cars are about to get connected to the Internet like never before. Not only will it change how we drive, but it will change the economics of the car business as well.
Continue reading… “The car will be the next big boom in mobile technology”
It has become cheaper for banks to demolish forclosed property than to continue to hold onto it.
The sight of excavators tearing down vacant buildings has become common in the foreclosure-ravaged city of Cleveland. The housing crisis hit this area early and hard. But the story behind the recent wave of demolitions is novel — and cities around the country are taking notice.
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There are more than 327 million wireless subscriptions in the U.S.
A new survey was released by CTIA yesterday with some interesting data on wireless subscribers in the U.S. The survey covers January 2011 through June 2011.
Continue reading… “Wireless subscribers outnumber people in the U.S.”
A new cultural perspective of time.
A huge early Celtic calendar construction has been discovered in the royal tomb of Magdalenenberg, nearby Villingen-Schwenningen in Germany’s Black Forest. This discovery was made by researchers at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum at Mainz in Germany when they evaluated old excavation plans. The order of the burials around the central royal tomb fits exactly with the sky constellations of the Northern hemisphere…
Continue reading… “Early Celtic ‘Stonehenge’ discovered in Germany’s Black Forest”
Death around the bacterial corner.
Turns out the Black Death really was the granddaddy of them all. Scientists have mapped the genome of the bacteria that caused the bubonic plague and traced it to all modern incarnations of the disease.
Scientists recently pinpointed Yersinia pestis as the bacteria that killed 50 million people in the 14th century…
Continue reading… “Scientists find relatives of the Bubonic Plague still lurking the earth”