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Here's The Real Reason Why America Is So Divided
The vitriol is worse is worse than I ever recall. Worse than the Palin-induced smarmy 2008. Worse than the swift-boat lies of 2004. Worse, even, than the anything-goes craziness of 2000 and its ensuing...
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How My Chimpanzee Friend Learned To 'Talk'
October 30th marked the five-year anniversary of the death of my friend Washoe. Washoe was a wonderful friend. She was confident and self-assured.She was a matriarch, a mother figure not only to her...
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The Most Interesting Ballot Initiatives Planned For Election Day
Voting for president, congressman, senator, governor, county councilman, alderman, sheriff and dogcatcher apparently isn’t enough to think about Tuesday.Voters in dozens of states will also be faced...
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9 Colorful Tarantula Species Discovered In Brazil
Nine new species of colorful, arboreal tarantulas have been discovered in central and eastern Brazil, an area where only seven tarantula species had previously been known. All nine of the newly...
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The 10 People In Line To Lead The Federal Reserve
Just eight men have run the Federal Reserve Board since Franklin Delano Roosevelt named Marriner Stoddard Eccles, the western Mormon banker who embraced the New Deal, to the newly reconfigured post of...
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The Ugly Prime-Ministerial Unpopularity Contest In Japan
Can your approval rating drop to zero? That must have been the question Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was brooding over as he digested two polls taken over the weekend.His approval rating had...
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Joseph Stiglitz: Americans Aren't The Only Ones With A Lot At Stake Tomorrow
Most people around the world will not be able to vote in the United States’s upcoming presidential election, even though they have a great deal at stake in the result.Overwhelmingly, non-US citizens...
View ArticleSandy's Election-Week Warning: Utilize Technology, Improve Infrastructure to...
The devastation reeked by Super Storm Sandy — and our struggle responding to it — provide brutal reminders of the importance of putting technology to work and tending to infrastructure which will...
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10 Taxes You Might Be Paying Without Even Knowing It
The American Institute of CPAs compiled a list of common taxes most people aren’t aware of, which factor into a tax calculator tool they’re featuring.Here’s their list…1. Medicare TaxThe amount...
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How To Prevent A 'Bossless Culture' From Slipping Into Chaos
The most innovative tech companies today are building work cultures that fly in the face of tradition.At companies like Valve and Github, gone are the managers who boss people around and expect servile...
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There Will Be A Record Number Of Women In The 113th Senate
Regardless of the outcome of three still-undecided Senate races that female candidates were still contesting early Wednesday morning, the Election Day results assure that an unprecedented number of...
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Why Quick Thinking Leads To Bad Decisions
When people make hasty decisions, they tend to make more mistakes.Now, a new study on monkeys explains why: Brain cells become hypersensitive to new information, even bad information, making us...
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Scientists Are Happy California Won't Label Genetically Modified Food
It comes as no surprise to anyone who reads my blog regularly, follows my Twitter or Facebook feeds, or has talked with me in person lately that I’m pleased to see that Proposition 37 has failed to...
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A Foreign Language Is The Best Way To Stand Out In Tough Job Market
Looking for another way to stand out in a tough job market, plus increase your competitiveness and versatility down the road in your career? If you can commit to adding one or more languages to your...
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10 Things You Should Never Say To Coworkers
Whether you love your co-workers or hate them, you're stuck with them for hours each day—and they're stuck with you.If you're not thoughtful about what you say to each other, you can make one another...
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Teams That Focus On This One Goal Work Faster And Get Better Results
It might be to forget about trying to be fast at all and to just focus on being smooth.A Formula One pit crew—a group that depends on fast, efficient teamwork—found that they weren’t at top speed when...
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Hurricane Sandy's Name Will Probably Be Retired
Even though Hurricane Sandy had transformed into a hybrid cyclone-nor'easter when it ravaged the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, weather experts believe the damage left behind will send the name "Sandy"...
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Humans Caused The Collapse Of The Great Barrier Reef
The expansion of European settlement in Australia triggered a massive coral collapse at the Great Barrier Reef more than 50 years ago, according to a new study.The study, published Nov. 6 in the...
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Wall Street's Presidential Bet Was The Second Worst Trade Of 2012
Sorry, derivatives traders at JP Morgan Chase. Your bank’s notorious London Whale will likely retain the dubious honor of being Wall Street’s worst trade of 2012.But the financial sector’s collective...
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Most Real Estate Investors Are Leaving Their Best Strategies On The Table
Of all the Purposeful Plans I’ve engineered and executed, a significant chunk were with folks who’d come to me with a pretty nice portfolio.They’d done well, many enviably so. Or did they? Remember...
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