Bobby Jindal Just Quietly Revealed His Vision For The Future Of The GOP
The speech Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal delivered Tuesday at the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center for Education was unquestionably a speech about education policy.But Jindal, who is widely seen as a...
View ArticlePlay With Your Dog, For Science
Millions of people around the world come home to four legs and a wagging tail, and many spend some of their time together playing.While dog-dog play has been studied extensively, dog-person play, which...
View ArticleThe Way We Form Sales Relationships Is Horribly Broken
You’ve been told time and time again that sales success comes down to trust and relationships.If buyers don’t trust you, they won’t buy from you. That is usually true. If you don’t have a relationship...
View ArticleThese Freak Waves Can Attack Anytime Without Warning
A freak wave killed seven people in Chicago on a sunny day on the shore of Lake Michigan nearly 60 years ago.At the time, no one knew what set off the monster wave.Researchers now know the wave was a...
View ArticleTo-Do Lists Are Outdated And Cause More Problems Than They Solve
I rather used to hate to-do lists but found it odd that I still continued to use them. Was my half-hearted exercise in list-making just a futile exercise or productivity-flavored self-torture?The to-do...
View ArticleThere's A Rare Mini Quasar Gobbling Matter In Andromeda
The brightest objects in the universe are called quasars, and now astronomers have found the first miniature version of a quasar beyond the Milky Way.Quasars are supermassive black holes up to billions...
View ArticleThese Charts Reveal Everything You Need To Know About Iron Ore
At Rio Tinto's investor conference in Sydney earlier this month Sam Walsh, respected chief of iron ore at the world's number two producer of the commodity, showed two slides that neatly sum up supply...
View Article15 Million Jobs Are Missing From The Private Sector
Let’s keep it simple.For the past three decades, US private sector jobs have grown by about 1.8%-2.0% a year.But that’s not been happening since the Great Recession.Private sector jobs fell sharply in...
View Article9 Questions To Ask Before You Break Up With Your Bank
It's that time of year -- when the changing of the calendar urges you to give your financial life a look-over, to see if things are on track or whether any changes need to be made.There's the household...
View Article10 Reasons Millennials Might Abandon Big Cities
The hot pursuit of young professionals has been at the core of American cities' urban revival for more than a decade. It worked. They came, they played, they stayed.An urban renaissance unfolded as the...
View ArticleThe Cities Where Violent Crime Is Soaring
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View ArticleSweden’s Euro Hostility Hits A Record
As the Eurozone flails about to keep its chin above the debt crisis that is drowning periphery countries, and as the European Union struggles to duct-tape itself together with more “integration,”...
View ArticleEuropean Court Rules That CIA Tortured And Sodomized Terror Suspect
CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him, as Macedonian state police looked on, the European court of human rights said in a historic judgment released on...
View ArticleGOP Pollsters: 'Republicans Have Run Out Of Persuadable White Voters'
Republicans need to dramatically improve their standing with Latino voters or risk becoming a “regional party” of disaffected whites, according to a study released Wednesday by a GOP...
View Article11 Simple Ways To Save Money In 2013
In the theme of Christmas and the spirit of giving, I plan to use the next two weeks leading up to Christmas to count down the 12 Days of Christmas in all its Foolish glory.In my rendition of this...
View ArticleNew York Is Cracking Down On Secret Campaign Donations
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) on Wednesday announced new rules that would force so-called “dark money” political organizations that operate in New York to report more details about...
View ArticleResearchers Find A New Slow Loris In The Forests Of Borneo
A new small primate with a toxic bite and distinctive facial fur markings has been discovered in the jungles of Borneo.The new slow loris species is found in the highlands of the island of Borneo and...
View ArticleHere's How To Wiggle Your Way Out Of A Real Estate Contract
It’s the kind of email real estate agents dread finding in their inbox late at night.After months or years of effort, a buyer client is finally in contract with the right property.But now, at the...
View ArticleYou Can Miss A Lot Of Opportunities By Job-Hopping
I get job hopping; I’ve done it a few times myself. One particular career move of mine into a very niche, scientific industry proved disastrous. I was at my job for 5 months and fled back to my old...
View ArticleThe Search For Life In Icy Antarctic Lake Begins
With the temperature at a balmy midsummer -17C, drilling has started in Antarctica in an attempt to find evidence of life under a sheet of ice two miles (over 3km) thick.The scientists and engineers...
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