Broadband index ranks states in Internet access

2012 Broadband Index: States Making Progress On Boosting Broadband
Blair Christie, huffingtonpost.com

Imag­ine a future where every class­room in Amer­i­ca has a high-speed con­nec­tion to the inter­net, where stu­dents have the entire cat­a­log of books and videos at their fin­ger­tips. A future where access to the high­est qual­i­ty health care…

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Smartest cities in America Fast Company ranking

Smartest Cities In America: Fast Company Ranks Brainiest Cities
Aaron Sankin, huffingtonpost.com

How brainy is your ‘hood? That’s the ques­tion posed by Dr. Boyd Cohen in a recent arti­cle pub­lished in Fast Com­pa­ny.

Cohen looked at cities across North Amer­i­ca and rated them on a “smart city” scale based on char­ac­ter­is­tics rang­ing…

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Economist ranks best countries to be born in

The lottery of life
economist.com

International

Where to be born in 2013

War­ren Buf­fett, prob­a­bly the world’s most suc­cess­ful investor, has said that any­thing good that hap­pened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right coun­try, the Unit­ed…

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Obama campaign sparks new political tech startups

The Obama start-ups
economist.com

Innovation and electioneering

Techniques from the president’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of young firms

AT THE inau­gu­ra­tion ball held for staff of Barack Obama’s cam­paign team in Jan­u­ary 2009, the new pres­i­dent “told us al…

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Drug company employees vote for Obama while PACs vote Republican

Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama
Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com

Pho­to­graph by JB Reed/Bloomberg

Polit­i­cal com­mit­tees con­trolled by U.S. drug­mak­ers includ­ing John­son & John­son and Eli Lilly & Co. favored Repub­li­can polit­i­cal can­di­dates in the Novem­ber elec­tion even as work­ers at the…

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Obamacare sparks new jobs for tech workers

Tech Workers See Opportunity as Health-Care Law Kicks In
By Jeff Green & Shannon Pettypiece -, bloomberg.com

John Tri­c­as said he heard oppor­tu­ni­ty knock­ing and learned net­work­ing soft­ware two decades ago, when it was the “next big thing.” Now he sens­es a sim­i­lar open­ing as the health-care over­haul law takes effect.

In Sep­tem­ber, the…

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Big data will rewire your brain

Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life
Juan Enriquez, inc.com

Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general.

Most mod­ern humans are now attempt­ing to cram more data into their heads in a sin­gle day than most of our…

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Why I Never Post Job Openings

Eric V. Holtzclaw, inc.com

LEAN FORWARD

Instead, I give candidates permission to stalk me. They should find out what I’m up to, track me down, introduce themselves, let me get to know them. It works.

Peo­ple often ask me how to get a job at my com­pa­ny, User Insight. T…

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Why I Never Post Job Openings

Management consultants must become anthropologists to get real data

Why Management Consultants Need To Make Apps, Take “Rep Rides,” And Study High-Selling Hair Farmers
By David Zax, fastcompany.com

To create real value, Bluewolf consultants shadow their clients’ representatives in the field. The results often involve mobile apps streamlining their work.

The man­age­ment con­sult­ing indus­try has been much maligned in recent years. The…

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Instagram captures drone strike maps

An Instagram Account Chillingly Documents The Sites Of U.S. Drone Strikes
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

The aptly named Dronestragram invites you to pause your visual consumption of your friends’ happy lives to consider a different kind of snapshot.

There are no embed­ded reporter fly-alongs dur­ing a drone strike—no live CNN cam­eras on the grou…

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Game cams now capture real life behavior

Amazing Photos Of Animals In The Wild, Snapped By Hidden Automatic Cameras
BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com

The Smithsonian’s Wild project uses advanced automated cameras to capture images of animals in their natural habitats as they go about their day. It’s a much better kind of specimen than a dead, stuffed animal.

Bill McShea has trav­eled to China…

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