Category: Linguistic Search

  • 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… http://flip.it/5nSKe Related articles Comcast VP…

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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… http://flip.it/S4G4J Related articles…

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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… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: Which country will provide the best…

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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… RT @TheEconomist: Techniques from the Barack Obama’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of…

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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…

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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… http://flpbd.it/1fR6x…

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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…

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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… http://flpbd.it/JhhGm Why I Never Post…

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  • 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… RT @FastCompany:…

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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… http://flpbd.it/KvVgM…

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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…

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