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  • Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate

    Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate by Lloyd Grove, thedailybeast.com The pundits may be calling Denver a slam-dunk for Romney, but David B. Givens, who analyzed the candidates’ mannerisms, disagrees: the governor looked ‘aggressive and manic, simultaneously,’ while Obama was ‘cool.’ The gov­er­nor was manic and t… http://flpbd.it/uwyKR Related articles Jimmy Carter:…

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  • Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk

    Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Stu­dio d’Xavier) Try­ing to think of any rea­son pay­ing more at the pump is a good thing would stump the aver­age con­sumer (thin­ner wal­lets after pay­ing with cash?), but one and pos­si­bly the only good side…

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  • Feds: 20% Of Weight Loss, Immune System Supplements Making False Claims

    Feds: 20% Of Weight Loss, Immune System Supplements Making False Claims Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (nathan­mac87) It’s not just that the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment doesn’t want the mar­keters of dietary sup­ple­ments to just make up what their prod­ucts can do for con­sumers, accord­ing to a new study on the preva­lence of weight loss and immune… http://flpbd.it/OJ7NI…

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  • Inside the Latest Office-Design Craze: Hot Desking

    Inside the Latest Office-Design Craze: Hot Desking Flash Steinbeiser, inc.com Inc.com staff As cloud computing and wireless Internet become ubiquitous, workers are cordless. Who needs a cube, much less an office? Just follow the leads of these cool companies. The cubi­cle’s days are num­bered. A con­cept called “hot… http://flpbd.it/M8sTt Related articles 9 Sentences That Could…

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  • Google+ Goes Looking For Love

    Google+ Goes Looking For Love By Andy Meek, fastcompany.com Instead of going for the billion-user benchmark recently set by social titan Facebook, Google+ is trying to harness emotion, says Google’s Vic Gundotra. An inter­view with Google’s senior vice pres­i­dent for engi­neer­ing, Vic Gun­do­tra, about… http://flpbd.it/oOkme Related articles Nexus phones to feature ‘insanely great cameras’ says…

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  • 4 Steps To Advancing Your Career

    4 Steps To Advancing Your Career Via HR’s Myopic Bizarro World By David Clutterbuck, fastcompany.com You can make it without being a sociopath or middling to the point of uselessness. But it’s going to take some insight. Here’s a tough ques­tion: If cor­po­rate poli­cies and prac­tices in tal­ent man­age­ment and suc­ces­sion plan­ning work, ho… http://flpbd.it/HOOdE…

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  • How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing

    Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com Mak­ing my stu­dents switch from MS Word to Google Drive not only elim­i­nat­ed the headache of incom­pat­i­ble ver­sions and big email attach­ments. It’s made them bet­ter writ­ers. When I start­ed teach­ing col­lege writ­ing and jour­nal­ism… http://flpbd.it/uFfgR How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing Related articles Google Drive – Student ePortfolios…

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  • Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

    Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com You know who you are. You are the employ­ee who ignores man­dates from the IT depart­ment. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, com­pa­ny poli­cies be hanged. The IT man­ag­er might call you a prob­lem employ­ee, but actu­al­ly y… http://flpbd.it/Y1i7Q Related…

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  • Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products?

    Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products? Only Facebook Knows Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com An ambi­tious Face­book data-collection effort is turn­ing up unlike­ly pat­terns in mem­bers’ inter­ests. Here’s what that means for online mar­keters – and you. Ian Lurie, founder and CEO of Inter­net mar­ket­ing agency Por­tent, is look­ing f… http://flpbd.it/0JbI2

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  • Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’?

    Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’? Damon Lavrinc, wired.com Photo: AP Pres­i­den­tial hope­ful Mitt Rom­ney may be a Michigan-bred entre­pre­neur with a suc­cess­ful career in busi­ness, but the man knows lit­tle about the elec­tric vehi­cle sec­tor. Dur­ing his first debate with Pres­i­dent Bar… http://flpbd.it/NRZsD Related articles Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They…

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  • Bird brains? Crows remember your face

    Bird brains? Crows remember your face Scott K. Johnson, arstechnica.com One of the most enjoy­able facets of study­ing other species is dis­cov­er­ing the amaz­ing things they’re capa­ble of. As humans, the things we tend to find most amaz­ing are the abil­i­ties that remind us the most of, well,… http://flpbd.it/YObK6 Related articles The social brain hypothesis…

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  • Crowdsourcing app will measure the world for a week through smartphones

    Crowdsourcing app will “measure the world” for a week through smartphones Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com If you’ve ever had trou­ble explain­ing the con­cept of “big data” to some­one—or had trou­ble wrap­ping your brain around the buzz­word your­self—Rick Smolan wants to help. But how do you demon­strate big data? It’s the some­what abstract,… http://flpbd.it/okN2Z Related articles How…

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