Here?s a great example of genuine medical progress: 10% of the first 50 patients who received balloon angioplasty from the developer of the procedure, Andreas Gr??ntzig, required emergency bypass surgery. By 2002 only 0.15% of PCI patients required emergency surgery, leading many to believe that surgical backup was no longer necessary. Now a large new ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 16:33

If you've been following the news about Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teen who was shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer claiming he acted in self defense, you may be wondering why the man thought the teen was armed. The 17-year old evidently had nothing in his hands except a bag of skittles and a can ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 21:57

Folks who make their living from online ads often point out that ad spending online still doesn?t match the relative amount of time people spend online vs. watching TV or reading magazines and newspaper. Ergo, they reason, advertisers need to shift more of their budgets to the Web. But advertisers aren?t stupid, and while some ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 18:55

Early doubts about whether people want ads plastered on their tiny mobile phone screens are starting to fade, especially as mobile ad revenues start to take off.??Now, a new study to be released Monday morning by ad management software and services firm??Marin Software indicates that search ads, at least, are working even better on tablets ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 06:55

Professor Robin Dunbar is best known for his work related to how many stable social relationships the human brain can manage. In earlier research, he argued that the??optimal??number of??active??relationships is 150 ? now famously known as the ?Dunbar Number.? Dunbar is once again delving into the brain?s social capacity, but this time he?s focused on ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 04:25

"Brands are dead," we've been told, and it feels like everyone's out searching for the smoking gun. Did the economy kill brands, or was it globalization? Maybe it's advertising fatigue? We can muck around the crime scene all we want, but the simple truth is that brands are NOT dead.?? Nor are they "back." In ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 14:00

The Indian media baron built the world's largest structure dedicated to the meditation style he credits with his success.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:23

An executive from Hong Kong?s largest property developer has been arrested as part of an investigation into alleged bribery. Thomas Chan Kui-Yuen from Sun Hung Kai Properties was taken into custody by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on Monday, according to a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Sun Hung Kai said Chan?s ...

pubblicato il: 20/03/2012 - 09:05

Robert Redford's Sundance Institute is taking its show on the road for the inaugural Sundance London, to be held April 26-29.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 13:23

In markets built largely upon binary code and governed by Moore's Law, the pace and nature of change has become hyper-Schumpeterian: unrelenting and utterly unpredictable.

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 19:27