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"Power causes you to focus on rewards and take risks to achieve those gains," Dr. Andy Yap of MIT's Sloan School of Management.
In order to be successful, you need to do more than just design a good product. You need to be persuasive.
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The Suomi NPP satellite has created the highest-resolution map of the world's vegetation to date. Not surprisingly, there's more greenery, thanks to carbon emissions.
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One is reminded of America’s second-most detestable federal outfit: the Transportation Security Administration.
In the video below, Justin Solonynka, a teacher at the Abington Friends School in Jenkintown, PA, uses a game he bought for his two-year-old daughter to teach his 7th grade class about permutations and combinations.
What if Conservative ideology is more Kafka than Orwell? Are the people who say they fear an imminent dystopia actually just really annoyed?
The true culprit in the residual gender wage gap is wage secrecy.
A plastic pollution survey of the Great Lakes revealed that three of the five contain dangerously high concentrations of "perfectly spherical plastic balls" of the type found in face and body scrubs.
This week Harvard University unveiled a database of 2.3 million carbon-based materials, including over 35,000 out of which some could eventually match silicon's energy conversion ability.
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"DOMA’s principal effect is to identify and make unequal a subset of state-sanctioned marriages," wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the Federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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In the early 1850s, Daniel McCallum, the General Superintendent of the New York and Erie Railroad, had a problem. At the time, the New York and Erie Railway was the […]
The group displays photos of inappropriate behavior in the hope that doing so will end a longstanding tradition of exploiting freshmen that has led to injuries and deaths.