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Is This Sustainable Village The Future Of Retirement?

Serenbe, a planned sustainable community, is a new village designed to help its residents gracefully age in place.Fifteen years into an unplanned second career as a real-estate developer, Steve Nygren...

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5 Design Jobs That Won't Exist In The Future

And six jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, and more.Organ designers, chief drone experience designers, cybernetic director. Those are some of the fanciful...

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Just As You Feared, Hating Your Job Is Also Wrecking Your Health

New research suggests troubling links between job dissatisfaction and physical and mental health troubles.You know that saying, "This job may be hazardous to your health?" Those words, according to a...

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Four Unique Ways These Companies Are Finding The Best Job Candidates

Upending the interview process lets employers see beyond candidates' best behavior to see whether they are a good fit for the work.Hiring is a lot like dating: Both parties are often on their best...

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These Tech Workers Don't Need To Know How To Code, And Neither Do You

Knowing how to code can take you far, but it's not necessary in order to work in the sector.Many years back, the battle cry began: Learn To Code! That call has only become louder since, with numerous...

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Why Facebook's Trending Topics Spam Problem Can't Be Solved With Algorithms

The decision to nix Trending's human editors has proven controversial in mere days—but Facebook has long put too much faith in automation.When Facebook unceremoniously fired the team of human editors...

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A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point By Point

Cook blasted an EU ruling that Apple used Irish subsidiaries to avoid billions in taxes, but his defense is only one side of the story.Apple's business structure and tax practices in Europe were around...

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Ditch Your Book Club: This AI-Powered Memoir Wants To Chat With You

Amy Krouse Rosenthal's interactive Textbook uses smart bots to engage with readers in real time. A new tech lit is born.Do you ever feel like your book and your phone are at odds with each other? You...

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The Short, Online Course In Gratitude That Can Make You A Better Boss

When managers exercise positive psychology, employees and organizations benefit.Every weekday, Cory Ludens starts his morning by writing out three "gratitudes"—each specific, and never repeated. Over...

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Researchers Have A Vision: Cure Blindness By Regrowing Retinas And Optic Nerves

The government's National Eye Institute is committing $12.4 million to research technologies that can regenerate damaged neurons.Neurons are for life, as are diseases and injuries that destroy them....

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Ed Smith And The Imagination Machine: The Untold Story Of A Black Video Game...

At APF in the 1970s, as the second-known African-American video game engineer, he helped create an industry.Thirty-seven years ago, New York-based APF Electronics, Inc. released The Imagination...

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3 Digital Decisions You'll Regret Someday

Team messaging platforms, social media, and even using your own devices at work all have the potential to kill your current job.The big-ticket career gaffes are pretty well-known: Don't tell off your...

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How To Rescue Your Attention Span From Information Overload

The average person's attention span is now less than that of a goldfish's. Stop the onslaught and regain your focus.We like to know what's going on. Eighty-seven percent of respondents to a December...

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7 Questions For Spotting Employers' Hidden Flaws On A Job Interview

A job interview isn't always the best venue for uncovering signs of bad management, but asking these questions can help.People typically leave their jobs for three reasons: they were offered a better...

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How To Turn Lame Networking Connections Into Useful Ones

Most people you meet while networking aren't immediately useful to you, but they may work with people who are.Usually, you go to a networking event, shake a few hands, hear other people's elevator...

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These Full-Time Employees Explain How They Make Time To Freelance

Sometimes work-life balance takes getting your work-work balance right first.If you're in your first or second job, chances are, your starting salary isn't exactly blowing up your bank account. Rather...

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At This Year's U.S. Open, IBM Wants To Give You All The Insta-Commentary You...

The company's machine-learning engines are providing tennis fans with real-time analytics of matches—including predictions of who will win.Tennis fans watching the U.S. Open at home or in person this...

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Only Have 15 Minutes A Day For Twitter Networking? Here's What To Do

This behavioral scientist harnessed the psychology of choice to grow his Twitter account from 85 to over 101,000 followers.I opened my Twitter account a few years ago, but for a while I didn't have...

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What Happened When I Redesigned My Workday To Start At 5 A.M.

The main upside, says one Buffer employee, isn't about early birds catching worms—it's about the power of choice.I work for an incredible company, with teammates scattered around the globe. Most of us...

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From Old-School To-Do Lists To How Google Hires: August's Top Leadership Stories

August's top leadership stories may get you to take your to-do list analog and help you get noticed by a Google recruiter.This month we learned how Patagonia recoups 91% of the cost of onsite child...

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