When Kleon was asked to give a presentation at Broome Community College, the Texas-based author and artist had no idea that the slides from this talk would be become a viral sensation and form the basis for his new book, Steal Like An Artist. Equal parts manifesto and how-to, Steal Like An Artist aims to ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 13:25

Yesterday, a panel of experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously that halted studies of an experimental class of pain drugs should be restarted, leading to hopes that the drugs might provide another option aside from non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen and naproxen, which may harm the heart or stomach, and opiates ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 13:25

If you have not used up your unified credit yet there is a pretty compelling case for making a large gift in 2012.?? I?m talking to the 1% here, of course.?? As of today the combination of taxable estate and cumulative taxable gifts that can pass to the next generation free of estate and gift ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 13:25

One of the big headaches for people who manage IT is the complexity of the databases that store and retrieve the company?s crown jewels of information. What makes them so complex is that standard IT processes??are engineered to make so many extra copies of the same information. But what if there was a way to ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 12:53

Later today we should get the official announcement that China is going to face a joint WTO case over their restrictions on the exports of rare earths. The U.S. will file a complaint at the World Trade Organization today over Chinese limits on exports of rare earths used in high-tech products, deepening a trade dispute ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 12:53

The idea of using data to win the brand game is not new. But if the film ?Moneyball? taught us anything we can translate to the increasing complexity of digital, it?s that the players should never become more important than what the team needs: results. Playing a kind of ?smartball? on brand teams today means ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 12:39

The country added 227,000 new jobs in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the third consecutive month of gains of more than 200,000. That?s a good sign that the labor market is strengthening and the economy is finally on the mend, even if unemployment remains at 8.3%. A survey just released by ManpowerGroup, ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 12:33

The conservative commentator Robert Kagan has made a splash by suggesting the United States is not in decline. Is he right? I have taken a look at his arithmetic. ? In his new book The World America Made, Kagan contends that America?s share of world output is as great now as it was forty years ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 12:11

Put that black hat away. Shady SEO tactics can get your site severely penalized by search engines. Punishments can range from losing organic traffic for a few days to losing it permanently. For any business, its website is a business asset with value that accrues over time and should be treated as such. Here are ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 12:00

Thanks to scientists working on particle acceleration at CERN, the Geneva Airport is the proud owner of a new array of solar panels that will form one of the largest solar energy systems in Switzerland. About 300 high-temperature solar thermal panels will cover a surface of 1200 square meters on the rooftop of the airport's ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 11:25