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Imagine A World With Empty Roads But With Skies Jammed With These Flying...
“For those of us who commute, we’ll spend over a year of our lives stuck in traffic.” So said engineer Todd Reichert as he introduced an alternative at TED 2017: a 100% electric flying vehicle under...
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Here’s What To Expect From Twitter’s Q1 Earnings
On the eve of its earnings report for the first quarter of 2017, things aren’t looking too good for Twitter. This has, of course, become something of a pattern, as Twitter’s user growth has stagnated...
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These Environmental Heroes Stood Up To Corporate Interests—And Won
In the mid-’90s, when he was 10 years old, Mark Lopez walked around his home of East Los Angeles, knocking on doors to tell people about the dangers of lead in their house paint. Lopez’s grandmother...
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Will The Third Industrial Revolution Create An Economic Boom That Saves The...
First, the bad news: GDP is slowing all over the world because productivity has been in decline for two decades. The result has been higher unemployment (especially among young people) and economists...
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Fox Continues To Explore VR’s Selling Power With “Alien: Covenant...
Fox and director Ridley Scott are increasingly dipping their toes into virtual reality—and that’s good news for science fiction and horror fans. Today, Fox is launching a new virtual reality experience...
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How To Look For A Job, No Matter How Long It’s Been
Job hunting takes different forms at different times in your life. Did you take a new job six months ago that isn’t working out, and are you ready to fire up your search all over again? That’s fine,...
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How To Prepare For An Interview When The Job Is A Stretch
First things first: Your job interview is going to stress you out—even if just a little bit, and even if you think you’ve got it in the bag. You have one shot to impress people who don’t know you that...
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Are Your Buying Habits Remotely Ethical? This Bank Account Will Tell You
After footage of 69-year-old David Dao being forcibly dragged off a United Airlines flight bubbled to the surface of the internet earlier in April, customers cut up their United credit cards and swore...
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Whatever Happened To Trump’s Voter Fraud Investigation?
It’s been almost three months since President Trump called for a major investigation into voter fraud, citing the author of a study who claimed that at least 3 million votes were cast illegally in the...
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These Six Things Are Likely Holding You Back At Work
When it comes to running your day, it’s easy to get swept up in distractions and tasks that don’t move you forward. The average person loses up to three hours each day due to interruptions from phone...
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How To Handle Your Boss’s Condescension
Maybe your boss is fond of saying things over and over again—as if you didn’t hear the first time. Maybe she tends to overexplain the obvious—as if you couldn’t possibly understand. Or maybe he throws...
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“Venture Capital For The People”: Making The Case For A Basic Income
Poverty is normally seen as a deep, complex, social problem. But to the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman it comes down to something simple: a lack of cash.In a well-received talk at TED’s 2017...
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How To Apply For A Job When You’re Underqualified
You’re dying to apply for a killer job you just found. It looks nearly perfect. But there’s one tiny problem—you’re underqualified.Do you go for it, or let it pass on by?It depends. And while there’s...
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Heineken Just Put Out The Antidote to That Pepsi Kendall Jenner Ad
WHAT: “World’s Apart,” a new Heineken ad that involves some frank conversations between people with differing views.WHO: Agency Publicis LondonWHY WE CARE: Earlier this month, Pepsi tried to walk in...
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The Winner Of The $1 Million TED Prize Is Bringing Health Care To The...
If you live in a remote village in Liberia and you get sick, seeing a doctor might involve a canoe ride down a river and two days of walking through the rainforest. Clinics are similarly hard to reach...
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Amazon’s Q1 Earnings: Four Things We’ll Be Looking For
How much higher can Amazon shares go? We’ll know a little more tomorrow afternoon when the Seattle e-commerce juggernaut releases its first-quarter 2017 earnings. If we look at presentations over the...
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GirlTrek Has A Simple Health Intervention For Black Women: Walking
After Vanessa Garrison saw her grandmother die at the age of 66, her aunt at 55, and another aunt at 63, she realized that her family’s experience wasn’t unusual: Black women have the highest obesity...
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What If You Could Filter Dirty Air Just By Riding A Bike?
Riding a bike in a smoggy city–and sucking in exhaust from the tailpipes of the cars in front of you–can undo the benefits of exercise. In Beijing, artist Daan Roosegaarde is beginning to imagine one...
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Fighting Climate Change Means Building Dense, Diverse, Walkable Cities
“Let me add to the complexity of the situation we find ourselves in: At the same time we’re solving for climate change, we’re going to be building cities for three billion people,” said the urban...
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The Flint Water Crisis Is Far From Over: They Still Need New Pipes
Three years ago, the city of Flint, Michigan, in search of a cheaper water supply, connected its system to the nearby Flint River. The switch was meant to be temporary; as such, officials neglected to...
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