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Private industry and militaries around the world depend on the continued advancement of computer power and cheaper electronics for the development of robotic systems. Every time you turn on the […]
Our society is faced with a disturbing reality: One in eight people aged 65 and older has Alzheimer’s—a disease that currently has no cure. Annual costs associated with the disease […]
Wow, today sort of came out of the blue and walloped me with business, so I'm only now getting a chance to post a few updates. Good way to start […]
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How do you get better quality for less? Building stronger relationships. The same principle applies when you want to get the best from employees.
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Having set company-wide goals, The Container Store has "liberated" its employees to choose their own paths to achieve them.
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The idea of a store built around organization in an increasingly disorganized world was a winner from the outset.
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When slow business followed a national tragedy, it became necessary for Koh and his wife to pay employees out of their own pockets. This led to greater loyalty and a […]
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Becoming involved in your vendor’s business and retooling your payroll to give employees greater share can build a better business.
I have theory, it is a personal theory not quite backed up by empirical evidence, that one of the reasons so many people are single is that they are poor […]
Powell's water-based states, or How the West wasn't won
Larry Engel, a film professor in the School of Communication here at American University, has been awarded the prestigious AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for his work as Director and […]
They were fast, loud and furious—and when things got out of hand the police sent in the snipers. The Guardian pays tribute to America's west coast punks.
Car companies are turning to a powerful and cheap source of advertising: young social-media influencers who have strong online followings.
Why are countries clashing over the relative values of their currencies? Peter Dizikes at the MIT News Office examines the ideas behind a competitive money market.
Americans use language to cover the sleeper, not to wake him, Baldwin said, which was why the writer as artist is so important. Only the artist could reveal society.
The mystery of why some people stay effortlessly thin while others struggle to keep weight off has come closer to being solved with a study isolating a gene that affects appetite.
Does a dirty scoundrel need a bath or a moral lesson? Our brains easily confuse metaphor for reality, often with dangerous consequences, says Stanford biology professor Robert Sapolsky.
"When someone says 'It’s not about the money, but...', it’s almost always about the money." The Boston Globe looks at the phrases we use which betray our true feelings.
"'Quantitative easing' is a pompous, uninformative term for a central bank’s buying debt in order to stimulate economic activity." Judge Richard Posner criticizes new monetary policy.
Male Homo sapiens were historically much faster and stronger than today's modern man. The Australian palaeoanthropologist Peter McAllister explains why in a new book.