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Basically, the Rust Belt before it rusted.
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Don't let delusions of freewheeling grandeur fool you; the best advice for a young entrepreneur is to establish values and rules, and then live up to them.
You can get as much done in six hours as you can in eight hours, but with much less wasted time.
Researchers outfitted him with a system that filtered out electrical signals through an algorithm to isolate brain waves dealing with leg movement.
If you remove the media microscope, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has promise but should have more "with Trevor Noah."
It's not that doing good is bad. Rather we get uncomfortable around those who are more altruistic than ourselves.
When was the last time you could talk about a show everyone had seen?
In an attempt to be original, to stand out amongst the almost 300 million other selfies on Instagram, we actually fade into the background. We become mundane. Photos are no longer about remembering an event; they’re about displaying. They’re about showing the world who we are, who we wish to be. And it's damaging our ability to remember.
The pursuit of transcendent experiences will become a connoisseur art when we’re all unemployed.
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Here's a simple mind hack: If you've got a craving, let Tetris satiate it.
Innovation isn't always the result of invention and discovery. Sometimes the best way to innovate is to rethink something old.
Samsung is moving virtual reality out of the developer market and into the hands of consumers.
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Did you know Alfred Hitchcock was a formally trained engineer? Guru Madhavan could see it in his movies.
Scientists are looking at increasingly risky ways of combating climate change.
The man with "the hardest job in Washington" abruptly announced his resignation the day after fulfilling his personal dream: hosting a sitting pope in Congress.
Two British economists argue that the plummeting birth rate combined with increased life expectancy worldwide will cause a labor shortage in the upcoming decades.
This development could lead to resources that may benefit future expeditions.
In a press conference this morning at 11:30 am Eastern time, NASA scientists confirmed the presence of liquid water on Mars.
Astrophysicists contemplate whether "mirror" dark matter causes cancer.