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How To Prevent Laziness And Free Riders On Big Group Projects
In 1913, French professor of agricultural engineering Max Ringelmann asked a group of men to pull on a rope as individuals and as part of a group.If you’ve ever been on a large group project, you might...
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Our First Bite At The East Village's New Rustic Italian Restaurant, L'Apicio
Welcome to First Bite, wherein we bring you a look at some of the city's newest restaurants shortly after they open.We'll go, eat some food, take some pictures, and report back to you.This go round...
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Ad Agencies Have Outpaced The Audience That Matters Most
As I have said many times over the years, I would like to make it mandatory that everyone in advertising read David Ogilvy’s first book, “Confessions of a Advertising Man” at least once a year.Even...
View ArticlePeer-to-Peer Lender Spreads Its Wings: $1 Billion In Loans At Lending Club
Lending Club, the popular online peer-to-peer lender that essentially cuts too big to fail banks out of the consumer lending dance, is spreading its wings—as per a recent press release issued by the...
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We May Never See The CIA's Massive Report On Interrogating Terror Suspects
A Senate committee is close to putting the final stamp on a massive report on the CIA’s detention, interrogation and rendition of terror suspects.Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who heads the...
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My 210-Pound Friend Fell On Me And Brought Me Back To Life
An engineer who collapsed at work after suffering a heart attack was saved when his friend accidentally fell on him and the impact restarted his heart.Kevin Brockbank, 54, a father of two, keeled over...
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New Dinosaur Named After Obama's Great Smile
Researchers at Yale University have named a newly discovered dinosaur 'Obamadon gracilis' in honor of the US president's toothy grin.The small, insect-eating lizard was first discovered in eastern...
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Two Common Mistakes In English Grammar May Have Come From Scandinavia
LAST WEEK we looked at Jan Terje Faarlund's idea that "English is a Scandinavian language." He thinks that West Germanic Old English died out in Britain, and was replaced by a language based on the...
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This Cup Changes Color To Detect Date-Rape Drugs
Every year, an estimated 1 million people are date raped, and many of them are victims of date-rape drugs, potent mixtures that disrupt the central nervous system. These drugs, often slipped into...
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Meet The Rare And Shy Wild New Guinea Singing Dog
This is one of the only photographs ever taken of a wild New Guinea singing dog, an exceptionally shy and rare animal from the highlands of New Guinea.The photograph was taken in August this year by...
View ArticleOutrage From Another Logo Change
The University of California has created outrage over the introduction of its new logo – a “U” filled in so that the top of it looks like the top of a woman’s strapless dress with a lower case...
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Between Glugs Of That Boxed Wine, Make Sure To Put It In The Fridge
This post originally appeared on Futurity.org and is available through a Creative Commons license.In the most comprehensive study to date on how storage temperature affects wines with different...
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Salt Could Be What's Making Kids Fat
This article was originally featured on The Conversation and has been re-printed under the Creative Commons license.Sugary drinks may get most of the attention in discussions about Australia’s obesity...
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A Supreme Court Justice's Husband Tried To Get Her To Pop 'Disco' Drugs
Sonia Sotomayor, one of Barack Obama 's appointees to the high court, describes in a new memoir how her husband presented her with a bag of Quaaludes, a popular 1970s drug sometimes known as "disco...
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Unpaid Bloggers Won't Be Getting Any Money Off The AOL–Huffington Post Deal
Unpaid bloggers have lost their bid to get an appeals court to restore a lawsuit contending AOL Inc owes them a cut of the $315 million it spent last year to buy The Huffington Post.A three-judge panel...
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Awesome Photos Of The Weird Creatures Found In The Ocean
Whew, I can’t believe we’ve only been out here for two days!The Shelf and Midwater teams have combined to form the “Zonation Zombies”.Zonation, because we all study the way that animals form layers in...
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This Is How Much Law School Should Really Cost
Consider the following radical thought experiment: How much would law school cost if that cost were determined by what a law degree is currently worth? To answer that question, I'm going to make the...
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Union Groups Huddle To Figure Out What’s Next In Michigan
Quietly, and while thousands of protesters raged outside his office, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) signed into law Tuesday evening the right-to-work legislation that’s turned a national spotlight on...
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Our Intelligence Comes Just As Much From Our Environment As Our Brains
We like to think our intelligence is self-made; it happens inside our heads, the product of our inner thoughts alone, writes psychologist Tom Stafford on the BBC’s website. But if you look at the...
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10 Things You Need To Bring Up During The Interview
The job interview might be the only thing left between you and the position of your dreams. Even when you’re the most qualified candidate with references galore, a poor interview performance can leave...
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