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What corporate offices can learn from coworking spaces

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Corporate offices are going to become coworking offices in the future.

If you are a fan of coworking and are going to the SXSW this year in Austin, you might want to arrive a few days early to hit the Global Coworking Unconference Conference (formerly known as the Coworking Unconference) being held in Austin on March 8. The all-day event is geared toward owners and there will be a range of panels on starting and running a space. But at least one discussion might be of interest not only to coworking entrepreneurs but also to forward-thinking managers as well.

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Analysis, Business, Historical Perspectives, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Crowdfunding: 23 Unusual Ways it May be Applied

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Futurist Thomas Frey: Michael Migliozzi and Brian Flatow started a website called BuyaBeerCompany.com in November 2009 who’s lofty goal was to buy the ailing century old Pabst Blue Ribbon beer company. Working to match the $300 million sale price, in less than two years the pair had attracted over 5 million investors pledging upwards of $280 million, with an average pledge of $40.

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Health of kids predicts parents’ future heart disease: study

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Study found kids’ weight, cholesterol and blood pressure helped predict the odds of a parent developing heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes over the next three decades.

When children have high cholesterol or blood pressure, their parents may have increased risks of diabetes and heart disease down the road, according to a new study.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, New Viewpoints

The dressing room Of The future

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Changing the way you buy clothing.

This seems like the kind of invention we’ve needed for a long time now-a virtual dressing room that allows you to try on clothes without all that nudity and pointless human interaction.

There are no salespeople to hard sell you into buying that ill fitting garment, you simply try it on for size via touch screen and see what you think for yourself. Here’s how it works…

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Global Warming, Historical Perspectives, Science & Technology News

Next ice age unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years

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Concentrations of carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for global warming, will linger in the atmosphere for decades even if the world stopped pumping out emissions today.

The atmosphere contains high levels of carbon dioxide emissions which means the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Monday.

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7 top medical breakthroughs coming in the next decade

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An effective treatment for Alzheimer’s, a cure for the common cold, gene therapy that destroys cancers, transplant organs grown in the lab.  These medical miracles are no longer the dreams of science fiction, but are likely coming in the next decade, say experts.

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New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Scientists create temporal cloaking device that hides whole events

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Scientists demonstrate how they have have created, a new invisibility technique that doesn’t just cloak an object but masks an entire event in this illustration.

Most people don’t have any problem making time disappear – but scientists have cracked a very hi-tech way of doing exactly that. Scientists have developed a ‘temporal cloaking’ device that can hide events from view.

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5 advanced in medicine predicted for 2012

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What significant advances can we expect in 2012?

In 2011 some great medical feats were accomplished. Dallas Wiens became the first recipient of a full-face transplant in the United States, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords survived a gunshot to her brain, and HIV researchers found a way to lower an infected person’s chance of transmitting the virus to sexual partners by 96 percent.

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