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  • TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out

    TSA Taking Controversial X-Ray Scanners Out Of Big Airports And Shipping Them Off To Smaller Ones Chris Morran, consumerist.com Image from a backscat­ter machine Accord­ing to reports, the TSA is remov­ing backscat­ter full-body scan­ners, which use very small amounts of ion­iz­ing radi­a­tion, from major air­ports and replac­ing them with less-controversial mil­lime­ter… http://flpbd.it/CHJnN Related articles TSA…

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  • 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb

    Erik Sherman, inc.com TECHTOWN It seems like smart just-in-time staffing: You hire for big projects and then let people go when they wrap up. But here’s why it hurts more than it helps. For the most part, there aren’t many par­al­lels between the cutting-edge… http://flpbd.it/wfdkE 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb Related articles AFL-CIO’s Trumka:…

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  • Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education

    Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Cour­tesy of Udac­i­ty Udac­i­ty, the dig­i­tal uni­ver­si­ty co-founded by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and robot­ics pio­neer Sebas­t­ian Thrun, has raised $15 mil­lion, join­ing a crop of online edu­ca­tion star­tups to attract ven­ture cap­i­… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is…

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  • Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP According to one expert’s counter-intuitive advice, here’s who you should hire instead. Inter­view­ing for many small busi­ness own­ers is more of an art than a sci­ence, rely­ing on gut instinct and a col­lec­tion of care­ful­ly… http://flpbd.it/k2Svl Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job Related articles Slow into Flow…

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  • The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills

    The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills Eliza Barclay, npr.org Sure­ly you’ve heard of crowd fund­ing sites like Kick­starter that have helped thou­sands of film­mak­ers, musi­cians and painters lever­age Face­book and Twit­ter to raise money for cre­ative projects. But crowd fund­ing isn’t just for hip­ste… http://flpbd.it/qq3h9 Related articles To Fund a Political…

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  • Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

    Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com Online real estate ser­vice Zil­low is expand­ing its real estate list­ings today by adding “pre-market inven­to­ry” — specif­i­cal­ly, homes that have either been fore­closed or are in the fore­clo­sure process. Increas­ing the selec­tion of… http://flpbd.it/vNkbI Related articles No longer a…

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  • Etsy HQ breathing rooms and gross happiness

    Handmade Desks, “Breathing Rooms,” And Gross Happiness: Take A Look Inside Etsy HQ fastcocreate.com Beyond just quirk, crafty marketplace Etsy offers employes a green (B Corp certified) place to work where happiness is measured and learning is encouraged (two words: therapeutic doodling). Seven years into its exis­tence, the online hand­made a… http://flpbd.it/39vka Related articles Crafty…

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  • GMO in my foods: there’s an app for that

    An App To Tell You If There Are Genetically Modified Ingredients In Your Food BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com There are no laws that say companies have to tell you if they’re using genetically modified ingredients. If that doesn’t sit right with you, there’s now an app to help you sort out which foods’ genes have…

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  • The digital campaign

    The Digital Campaign: How Obama And Romney Are Targeting You Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Hors­es and bay­o­nets may have become the lat­est Inter­net meme to come from the last of the sur­pris­ing­ly comedic pres­i­den­tial debates (see also: binders), but as a metaphor for how candidates—who, as of yes­ter­day, were locked in a dead… http://flpbd.it/DViFx Related…

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  • Tradesy is an EBay for clothing hoarders

    Tradesy Brings New Life To Your Closet By Helping You Sell It To Others By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com The secondhand fashion startup is streamlining the process of putting items up for sale to help you make more money in less time. Tradesy, an e-com­merce mobile app and web­site that launch­es today, is attempt­ing to take…

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  • It is possible to be a happy, financially stable freelancer

    How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talk­ing to cre­ative free­lancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeat­ed: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/Mtogd…

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  • Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living

    Lidija Grozdanic, inhabitat.com Read the rest of Cocoon Tree: A Light­weight, Spher­i­cal Tree­house for Sus­tain­able Liv­ing http://flpbd.it/dw1zk Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living Related articles Innovative Upcycling (creativefolkdesign.wordpress.com) Stilts: Inhabitat Monkeys Around in Sustainable Kenyan Treehouses (inhabitat.com) Cocoon Tree Tent (werd.com)

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