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How to Design a Billion Dollar Company
Question: What do Airbnb, Snapchat and Uber all have in common (besides multibillion-dollar valuations)?
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How will Obama's new myRA retirement plan work?
In his State of the Union address, the president proposed a new way for Americans to create a nest egg. There are some catches.
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The 2014 World Cup of Business. Who would win the World Cup if big business was taking part?
For a bit of fun, we've looked at the biggest companies in each of the nations that qualified, to see how a World Cup of Business might look. The logical progression is to plug in the numbers and see how the competition unfolds; assuming that the company with the highest revenue will prevail in each match.
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Inequality Has Been Going On Forever ... but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Inevitable
We have been living with rising income inequality for so long — in good times and bad, under Republican presidents and Democratic ones — that it has come to seem inevitable. It is no longer news that the affluent did better than everyone else during the booms of the 1980s and ’90s and through the mediocre growth of this century’s first years. Or that the rich have recovered from the financial crisis far better than the rest of country.
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How to erase a memory –– and restore it: Researchers reactivate memories in rats
Researchers have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals’ reaction to past events. The study is the first to show the ability to selectively remove a memory and predictably reactivate it by stimulating nerves in the brain at frequencies that are known to weaken and strengthen the connections between nerve cells, called synapses.
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Are We Running Out of Drinking Water?
Every 4th grade student knows that more than 70 percent of the earth is covered in water, but how many of us know that a significant portion of our planet’s water is already undrinkable?
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Climate Change Today
Climate Change-Check out this infographic to see what's changing:
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Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20%
The scale of Britain's growing inequality is revealed today by a report from a leading charity showing that the country's five richest families now own more wealth than the poorest 20% of the population.
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Why the Rise of the Robot Workforce Is a Good Thing
A hot topic at this year's South by Southwest tech conference: Will robots take over the workforce? And if—or when—they do, what jobs will be left for us humans?
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On Jan. 1, minimum wage jumps in 13 states
Workers in 13 states will see bigger pay checks in the new year.
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Why China can’t take over the world
China’s awe-inspiring rise is often framed as the return to a historical norm. A common belief is that for most of the last 5,000 years, China was the world’s center of wealth, culture, technology, and power. The 19th and 20th centuries, we are told, were a brief aberration, and China is now simply retaking its rightful place as the world’s preeminent nation. This trope gives China a certain air of inevitability.
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The great decompression
There are perils for a country in having all your children working too hard for one big exam
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How to Guarantee a Job for Every American.
Compiling our first Making Sen$e report on youth unemployment earlier this month, we were hit with the staggering statistic that 95 percent of black male teen dropouts are jobless. Each month, we calculate our "Solman Scale" -- a more inclusive measurement of unemployment than the official unemployment rate, and we've been well aware of the rise in youth black unemployment.
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What if the government guaranteed you an income?
First, the bad news: Even if the economy improves, middle-class career paths will continue to disappear as globalization and technological innovation render more jobs obsolete. Now, the good news: The fear, stress and humiliation caused by unemployment (and underemployment) can be alleviated with a simple solution.
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Record number of working-age men are not working
More than 10 million working-age men are not working, and the majority of them are not looking for work, according to a congressional analysis of Labor Department statistics that provides context for the decreasing official unemployment rate. The number of men out of the labor force is higher than it has ever been since records began being kept in 1955.
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New solar plane has a wing span similar to a 747, will circumnavigate the globe
Yesterday, the team that produced the first solar-powered aircraft that could fly around the clock unveiled its successor, Solar impulse 2, a craft that it hopes will be able to fly around the world. The airplane is a large collection of impressive feats of engineering: it's large enough to have a wingspan similar to a 747's, yet it weighs just a bit more than the average automobile (2,300 kg or 5,000 lb).
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What It Was Like to Surf the Web in 1989
A copy of the first website ever built is still online. Here's how I found out what it was like to surf the net in the late 80s.
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6 Things You Should Know About The Future
The future isn’t what we thought it would be. We don’t walk around in silver suits, travel to colonies on Mars or drive in flying cars. Instead, we dress casual, take selfies and communicate in 140 characters. Yet in many ways, we’re much better off than we imagined we’d be. Rather than a Mad Max dystopia of war, famine and disease we are safer, richer and healthier than we’ve ever been...
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History and Approaches to Artificial Intelligence
Earlier I wrote an article about the responsibility of creating consciousness and raised a few ethical questions we need to answer before we hit the ON switch before creating Artificial Intelligence. But what are the approaches that we have taken in the past and are currently taking to create Artificial Intelligence or, if you rather, Consciousness? At the end of this post, I’ll give my opinions on how artificial intelligence might be achieved and a few philosophical thoughts.
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Earth has a fever, but the heat is sloshing into the oceans
Much has been made about the Earth's energy imbalance (extra energy absorbed by the Earth). It is clear the Earth is out of balance, in laypersons' terms, it has a "fever". What isn't clear is how bad the fever is. A new study by Dr. Matt Palmer and Dr. Doug McNeall moves us closer to answering this "fever" question.
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Is global warming just a giant natural fluctuation?
An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth’s climate, according to a new study by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.
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Are Tech Stocks About to Crash?
On March 19, 2000, the New York Times published a Q&A with Matthew Johnson, the chief Nsadaq trader for Lehman Brothers. It had been a mixed week in the markets – the Nasdaq had fallen off its all-time highs, but the S&P 500 had gained a few percentage points – and Johnson was called in to answer the question on every Times reader's mind: Was the tech bubble about to burst?
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Half of all jobs will be automated by 2034, and no Government is prepared.
Almost half of all jobs could be automated by computers within two decades and "no government is prepared" for the tsunami of social change that will follow, according to the Economist. The magazine's 2014 analysis of the impact of technology paints a pretty bleak picture of the future.
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10 Ways to Be Productive in 60 Seconds
When you have a minute to spare here and there, it can be easy to succumb to checking Facebook or playing a quick game on your phone. After all, that's all you have time for...
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Psilocybin inhibits the processing of negative emotions in the brain
Emotions like fear, anger, sadness, and joy enable people to adjust to their environment and react flexibly to stress and strain and are vital for cognitive processes, physiological reactions, and social behavior. The processing of emotions is closely linked to structures in the brain, i.e. to what is known as the limbic system. Within this system the amygdala...
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What is the 'right to be forgotten'?
Sixteen years ago, a Spaniard named Mario Costeja Gonzalez had hit financial difficulties. To solve them, a property of his was put up for auction - the details of which were covered in a newspaper, which subsequently went online. The auction happened in 1998, and with those troubles now behind him, Mr Gonzalez is keen to move on. But there's a problem...
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Richest 300 Persons on Earth Have More Money Than Poorest 3 Billion
As we repeatedly focus on wealth inequality in the United States (i.e.; just four hundred persons in the US have as much in assets and income as the bottom 50% of Americans), a video points out the even more extreme global wealth disparity.
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Rich People Just Care Less
“Apart from the financial inequities, I fear the expansion of an entirely different gap, caused by the inability to see oneself in a less advantaged person’s shoes,” writes Op-Ed contributor Daniel Goleman.
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Favoritism, not hostility, causes most discrimination
Most discrimination in the U.S. is not caused by intention to harm people different from us, but by ordinary favoritism directed at helping people similar to us, according to a theoretical review.
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South Korea introduces women-only parking spaces
Seoul has created special women-only parking spots to make the South Korea capital more female-friendly - not, apparently, as a statement on the gender's driving ability. The city is spending around $100 million on initiatives including the new parking spaces that are dubbed 'she-spots' and come marked with bright pink outlines and a skirted woman logo.
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