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13 Hot Portland Startups That You Need To Watch
Besides being a great place for strong coffee and well-groomed beards, Portland, OR is growing quickly as a startup hub.In the first quarter of this year, Oregon even overtook Washington in terms of...
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Once Treated With Scorn, Randomised Control Trials Are Coming Of Age
IT ALL began with a white envelope. Inside, a letter from the provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered three young economists at MIT $100,000 to spend as they wanted (those were the...
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India's Left-Leaning, Anti-Graft Party Made A Stunning Debut
TAKE Arvind Kejriwal's talk of "revolution" seriously. Back in June, crammed with this correspondent into a tiny Suzuki car in east Delhi, he predicted electoral triumph for his Aam Aadmi ("common...
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China's Fierce Public Debate Over GM Food Exposes Concerns About America
OF THE many thousands of usually small protests that break out in China every year, few relate to national policy. Many consider the risk of challenging the central government too great. But the...
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René Redzepi's Approach To Food: Carrots And Sticks
Tales of toil and triumph from the founder of New Nordic cuisineA Work in Progress: Journal, Recipes and Snapshots. By René Redzepi. Phaidon; 648 pages.NOMA, a restaurant in an old warehouse in...
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Why Michelangelo Was In A Class Of His Own
Michelangelo: His Epic Life. By Martin Gayford. Fig Tree; 662 pages.LORENZO DE’ MEDICI, ruler of the Florentine Republic, was so taken by a statue carved by an adolescent that he proposed to make the...
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The Journey Of An Indian Onion: Lord Of The Rings
NITIN JAIN is the big man in Lasalgaon, a dusty town a day's drive from Mumbai that boasts it has Asia's biggest onion market. With a trim moustache and a smartphone stuck to his ear he struts past a...
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Why Ukraine Isn't 'The Ukraine,' And Why That Matters Now
Chances are if you find yourself talking about the ongoing protests in Kyiv, you'll slip up and refer to the country in which Kyiv is situated as "the Ukraine."It's an understandable mistake, perhaps —...
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Silicon Valley Is Living Inside A Bubble Of Tone-Deaf Arrogance
AngelHack CEO Greg Gopman apologized last week for a series of posts on Facebook in which he said that homeless "trash" had no place in the "heart of our city," San Francisco. He wrote:The difference...
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Tinder Isn't A Superficial Dating App — If You Think It Is Then Its Founder...
Tinder is a popular meet-up app that resembles Hot or Not. Its CEO Sean Rad doesn't like to say it's for dating, even though that's what most people think it's for. Rad even met his girlfriend on...
View ArticleJohn Goodman Sings 'All I Want For Christmas Is Booty' In 'SNL' Monologue
John Goodman opened his 13th time hosting "Saturday Night Live" by saying how much he loves his wife, especially during the holiday season.He and Kenan Thompson then broke into a bluesy song titled,...
View ArticleJohn Goodman Plays Woman 'Fired For Being Too Hot' On SNL
"Saturday Night Live" host John Goodman played awoman who’s “fired for being too hot” and suing her employer."He found my appearance distracting," claims a lawyer in court. "Because of your body, you...
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Geena Davis Found Crazy Low Stats On Women In Kid-Friendly Films And Here's...
About a decade ago, actress Geena Davis was alarmed by the lack of female characters in film while watching G-rated movies with her daughter.The realization led Davis to create her namesake Institute...
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This Map Shows How Many Countries Contribute To A Single Jar Of Nutella
Nutella has a huge global fanbase, but it turns out its ingredients come from everywhere as well. The hazelnut spread is such a global product, in fact, that the Organization for Economic Co-operation...
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Here's Who Makes The Money In This Country — And Who Pays The Income Taxes
One of the most challenging and important issues in the U.S. right now is the rise of income inequality.The country's highest earners are taking home a bigger percentage of the national income than...
View ArticleVideo Shows How Hilariously Awful It Could Be To Wear 'Microsoft Glass'
If Microsoft came out with Glass, what would it be like?It'd be full of lots of terrible pop-ups, one videographer posits.Wearable tech became a thing in 2013 and is sure to be a bigger thing in 2014....
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The World's Most Innovative People Use These 3 Tech Tools
The tech industry is all about finding that Next Big Thing, the idea that launches a new company or industry and changes the world.Most people look at successful innovators, like Steve Jobs or Jeff...
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Gamification Will Drive Billions In Economic Value, But What Consumers Expect...
Gamification, the use of game elements to promote desired behaviors among customers and employees, has been a popular business strategy for decades. But the always-on digital and smartphone age has...
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Here Are The Big Stories That Traders Are Talking About This Weekend
Dave Lutz of Stifel, Nicolaus kindly passes along the top stories that traders are reading about this weekend:The Guardian: China has condemned Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, for "maliciously...
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Paul Ryan Says There Will Be A Debt Ceiling Fight
Ugh. Paul Ryan says there will be a debt ceiling fight.From POLITICO:House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on “Fox News Sunday” Senate and House Republicans will soon huddle at their...
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