It’s very fashionable online nowadays to criticize early adopters of Google Glass, the computerized glasses. Commenters regularly deride people who appear in public wearing Google Glass, referring to them as…
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A group of six Iranians, arrested on Tuesday for filming a video tribute to Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy,” has been released on bail, reports from Tehran suggest. Police chief Hossein Sajedinia…
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“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.” — Woody Allen Ah, to be the billionaire owner of a…
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Is the 9/11 Memorial Museum a place for Americans to mourn and pay respect to the fallen — or a place to commercialize and generate revenue? That’s the question pundits…
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Almost 50 years ago, a media thinker and professor named Marshall McLuhan coined the catchphrase “global village.” Today that phrase remains an apt way to characterize not only the Internet, but the…
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“Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” — Warren Buffett Suppose your stockbroker said to you something like this: “I’ve got an investment for you that’s going to go big…
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“Beer is made by men, wine by God.” — Martin Luther The story’s out, and we’ve got to believe the French don’t like it one bit — they’re no longer number one…
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In Turkey, grief-stricken family members and friends wait outside hospital entrances in the hopes of seeing their loved ones come out alive. A coal mine near Soma, a town in Western Turkey, exploded into…
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While there are many reports published about the rate of failure of new business ventures, few of them are encouraging. A study by a Harvard Business School senior lecturer provides…
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. — Sam Ewing Two economic buzzwords we encounter often in the…