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The survey found that 72 percent of graduating college seniors believe being able to make a “positive societal impact” through their work is essential to their happiness. Making a difference is so important to them that 45 percent say they'd take a …
But a display of online solidarity quickly became a real-life rescue net for the company’s 300-plus employees. Video game developers, designers, and fans began tweeting links to game jobs and quickly made #38Jobs a trending topic on the social netwo…
Would you pay a neighbor to do your laundry at his house? A French website tests the comfort zones of collaborative consumers.
What’s so wrong about taking inspiration from other cultural traditions? After all, fashion, like American culture generally, ought to be a multicultural melting pot. It’s not, though: The fashion industry is overwhelmingly controlled by white peopl…
Thanks to startup Grantoo, a hand of Texas Hold-em could earn you cash for college.
Do you bike for exercise? To earn street cred? Or just to get around? As our options for cycling expand, so have our reasons for doing it. Here are eight types of bikers you may recognize from the neighborhood.
In lieu of a credit history, Micel performs a customized background check, a system that could point to the solution for all kinds of industries and billions of consumers worldwide. The company piloted its method for the last two years, using invest…
New York is one of two states that require stamp recipients to ink their fingertips to eat. That’s about to change: Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans last week for New York to eliminate mandatory fingerprinting for food stamps in an effort to re…
That may explain why a Google-sponsored competition seeking Egypt's most promising startup business tapped an anti-traffic app over competitors like Recyclobekia, a company with plans to recycle e-waste like old cell phones; Wireless Stars, whose mo…
Despite inflation decreasing their value, bank robberies are on the rise in the United States. According to the FBI, in the third quarter of 2010, banks reported 1,325 bank robberies, burglaries, or other larcenies, an increase of more than 200 crim…
Indeed, the iPhone changed my life. But on Black Friday in 2009, I said goodbye…
In late 2009, Lynn Zwerling stood in front of 600 male prisoners at the…
A new project is finding a way to connect protesters and designers.
What concerns me even more is that we, as consumers, are not demanding that…
Forbes writer Gene Marks today tells us what he'd do if he were destitute…
In fact, the United States (and most other nations) expressly prohibits the…
In a bold comparative analysis of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick…
A simple, and replicable, bit of generosity is giving people a not-rude-at-all…
It occurred to us that there might be an entire campaign based around the…
I soon found that online dating did not force me to be nice—actually, it…
Happy 30 birthday to the the most lovable alien. However, E.T. wasn't…
That was fast. Allegedly the pop star was upset after a contestant butchered…
Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high school and…
