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Patients should have confidential, unrestricted access to their own medical history, say advocates in the UK. But will empowering patients help their health or overwhelm them?
US officials have asked the nation's premier scientific journals not to publish new research that discusses how the H5N1 bird flu virus was engineered to carry from human to human.
To be human is to wonder and wander. The being who wonders can’t be fully at home in the cosmos the scientists can otherwise, perhaps, perfectly describe.
Canadian researchers working to develop an HIV vaccine have received approval from the US FDA to begin human trials of the vaccine. The vaccine works by infecting cells with a virus.
New innovations in mobile banking are making it possible to transfer the entire payment experience from the plastic credit card to your mobile device. New upstarts with funny names that […]
If there’s one trend that’s poised to take off and enter the mainstream in 2012, it’s 3D printing. Sometimes referred to as additive manufacturing, 3D printing is the process of taking […]
If you've still got an appetite for holiday links, I'd like to point you to a great new piece by a friend of mine, the author Greta Christina. In a […]
It's not an uncommon problem - it happened to McDonald’s, it happened to IBM, and it even happened to Apple, says Nancy Koehn, professor of business administration at Harvard. 
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Big companies start off with verve and energy and aspiration and incredible values outside the marketplace that fuel their growth, the grow to the point that they’re no longer in […]
“Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?” Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you. But the answer requires a little textual analysis. Where does Christmas come from, if not books?
Rather than handing out an annual cash bonus, companies are realizing that shorter-term incentive structures do more to motivate employees, as well as reward them for a job well done.
The founder and CEO of Facebook is hesitant over making his company public because he doesn't want innovation to depend on the whims of stockholders' interest in short term gains.
Be bold in the face of unanimous decisions, says entrepreneur and author Margaret Heffernan. Neuroscience, sociology and business meetings underscore her point. 
In our tough economic times, some are drawn to the stability purchasing a franchise can offer. But they are not immune to difficulties. Here's how some franchises are getting on.
Year-end performance reviews are meant to help organizational goals and advance people's careers but often the have the opposite effect of ramping up anxiety and tanking morale.
PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does calisthenics. PETMAN simulates […]