KLEINTOP: It's Time For Some Stock Market March Madness
It has been a sweet sixteen weeks for the S&P 500. The broad stock market index has had only three down weeks out of the past sixteen. While this stretch is tied by the same period a year ago, it...
View Article5 Soft Skills You Should Always Bring Up In An Interview
If you are extremely qualified, have terrific application materials, a targeted resume and you're interviewing for jobs, but always coming up with a silver medal, it's possible that you're bumping up...
View ArticleHalf Of What Advertisers Think They Know About You Is Wrong
Considering that they’ve never explicitly asked us about our preferences, it’s a minor miracle of big data that web advertising companies know anything about us at all.But at least half of the things...
View ArticleMaking Everything About Money Is A Recipe For Failure
Money might be the measuring stick or the club or the incentive or the goal, but “making money” can’t be your mission statement. It can’t be everything that you talk about.Because that means your...
View ArticleNew Study Reveals How Booze Screws Up Hand-Eye Coordination
Anyone who's failed a sobriety test will tell you that making coordinated movements while drunk is hard, and a new study explains why. Alcohol appears to disrupt connections between the brain's visual...
View ArticleColorado Governor Signs Sweeping Gun Laws A Few Hours After Top Prison...
DENVER (AP) — Gov. John Hickenlooper signed bills Wednesday that place new restrictions on firearms and signaled a change for Democrats who traditionally shied away from gun control debate in Colorado...
View ArticleSugary Drinks Linked To 25,000 Deaths Per Year In The US
Consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages may contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world, mainly due to Type 2 diabetes, a new study says.The results show...
View ArticleANSWERED: How Often Should You Wash Your Clothing?
We all wash our clothes to keep ourselves and our clothes smelling so fresh and oh-so-clean, but there is such a thing as too much washing and too little.There are downsides to both extremes:...
View ArticleMoney Kills Our Natural Tendency To Do Things That Interest Us
The world is full of schemes aiming to incentivize us; we’re spurred on to achieve new targets and scale new heights by the carrot of lucre-based incentivization schemes designed to appeal to our...
View ArticleFormer NBA Star Adrian Dantley Now Works As An Elementary School Crossing Guard
Former NBA star Adrian Dantley has probably made one of the most dramatic career changes among his friends: The Hall-of-Famer is a Maryland crossing guard, earning just $14,000 a year.Radio station...
View ArticleSenate Republicans Are Reluctant To Get Behind Paul Ryan's Budget
Senate Republicans aren’t so eager to vote on the Paul Ryan budget.Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the top Republican on the Budget Committee, told a handful of reporters Tuesday that Republicans may not...
View ArticleTrying To Be Certain About Everything Kills Great Ideas
Here is one of the biggest innovation obstacles around: the need for certainty.Dwight Towers posted a great quote from Frederick Douglass over the weekend that gets at the problem:If there is no...
View ArticleHere's The High-Performance Version Of Mercedes-Benz's Sleek New Sedan
The New York Auto Show won't have as many impressive global debuts as Geneva did, but it will host the debut of one of our most anticipated cars of the year: the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG.Today, the...
View ArticleROBERT SHILLER: Yes, It's Possible To Stimulate The Economy In A...
NEW HAVEN – With much of the global economy apparently trapped in a long and painful austerity-induced slump, it is time to admit that the trap is entirely of our own making. We have constructed it...
View ArticleWhat To Do If You Think Your Boss Has It Out For You
If your boss has it out for you, there is probably a reason. There are very few psychopaths and bullies who pick on people for no reason.I am not saying it doesn’t happen, but it is rare.And if there...
View ArticleA Whole Room Of Tea Party Republicans Now Agree With Rand Paul On Immigration
How many ultra-conservative lawmakers do you need to pack into a room before one of them objects to immigration reform? Apparenty more than nine.On Wednesday, a panel of House conservatives hosted by...
View ArticleWhy I Think LinkedIn Endorsements Will Be Dead By The End Of The Year
Today, I received LinkedIn endorsements of my skills from five people I’ve never met.There’s no way these people have any context for my ability to deliver the skills and expertise they endorsed.Don’t...
View ArticleSmartphones With Ultra-Hard Sapphire Screens To Be Released This Year
All major mobile phone makers are considering replacing the iconic Corning Gorilla Glass in smartphone screens with sapphire, the hardest natural material aside from diamond, IT analyst Eric Virey told...
View ArticleGuy Who Killed His Dad With An Ax Might Be Winning A Nasty Legal Battle With...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Lifetime television network's attempt to air a movie this weekend on a man who killed his father and maimed his mother with an ax depends on a ruling from a New York state court.A...
View ArticleIf An Unexpected Meteor Heads For Earth, All We Can Do Is 'Pray'
Last year, in an effort to tackle the 'myths' surrounding the belief that the world would end on December 21st, NASA set up a website to debunk theories about 'Mayan Prophecies', and even released a...
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