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Jonah Leher On The Three Types Of Creativity And How Brainstorming Doesn't Work

An exploration both artistic and scientific, Jonah Lehrer's Imagine: How Creativity Works tells us why a walk can lead to a big idea and how brainstorming dulls imagination. FC: How does creativity work? Lehrer: The word ...READ»

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How Films Find Viewers' Weaknesses In Child Mortality

Liam Hemsworth will send off Jennifer Lawrence to battle their peers in The Hunger Games. Nothing makes moviegoers squirm like watching children die on the big screen. As The Hunger Games--in which 24 children are forced to fight to ...READ»

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The Case For Girls

Most would-be parents prefer boys, not girls. Is part of the trouble, dare we say, a branding problem--one that advertising could solve?READ»

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How To Lead A Creative Life

Our complete guide to making your inner genius your greatest on-the-job asset.READ»

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Fast Company's Must-Attend Events In December 2011 And January 2012

KEY (OUT OF FIVE): LEARNABILITY: SCHMOOZABILITY: COSTABILITY: DECEMBER 1: Silicon Valley Rocks Entrepreneurs moonlight as rock stars at this fundraiser for music education.   1: Interaction South ...READ»

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Sony's PlayStation Vita Misses the $500 Million U.S. Holiday Market

PlayStation's latest handheld console will hit Japanese shelves in December but will miss the holiday season in the U.S. and the U.K. How much will it cost Sony?READ»

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How Do You Sell A Diamond Ring At A 900% Increase? Be Elizabeth Taylor

Christie's auction house will sell off the glimmering collection of the late Elizabeth Taylor beginning December 13 in New York. It's expected to fetch well over $30 million.READ»

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The Recommender: Arianna Huffington, Mark Frauenfelder, And More On What They're Loving This Month

From reading "Huckleberry Finn" to watching "Sherlock Holmes," here are our recommendations this month.READ»

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Toms Founder Blake Mycoskie's Fashion-Forward Childhood

In adolescent angst lies true meaning. "Whether Hello Kitty diaries, homecoming photos, or some crappy high-school poetry, they reveal profound things about the people we've become," says Dave Nadelberg, cocreator of Sundance ...READ»

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Cracking Down On $70 Billion Worth Of Medicare Fraud

A pharmacy run out of this storefront near Miami billed a federal agency for $776,298--in just nine days. There were no real employees. There were no real patients. There were no real prescriptions. How medical fraud has become an untreated epidemic.READ»

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General Assembly Provides Entrepreneurial Skills To A Chosen Few

In a New York classroom, 15 students are jammed around a table with laptops. The instructor is critiquing the class's website--and in the process, advancing one of the most interesting experiments in education today. This is General Assembly. This is augmented education, a stopgap for the startup economy.READ»

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Who’s Watching Bravo, According To Bravo

"We have segmented the audience that we go after. It sounds like crazy jargon," says Frances Berwick. Here's how she describes the groups:READ»

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Is Your Brain Wired To Take Risks?

The split-second journey of a risk as it travels through the brain.READ»

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Legoland

Saturday, October 15READ»

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"The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs"

Tuesday, October 11READ»

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Global E-Health Forum

Tuesday, October 11READ»

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E-Scrap Conference Talks Responsible Recycling

Wednesday, October 5READ»

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Financial Blogger Conference

Saturday, October 1READ»

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UPDATE | Burger Heaven

Photo by Kim Kang Given Wall Street's tightened purse strings, perhaps it's no surprise that the Wall Street Burger Shoppe and its $175 Richard Nouveau burger couldn't survive the recession, bailout, and fallout. The restaurant, ...READ»