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Crime Rates Fell Despite Recession - But Why?

BY David Zax
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A criminological puzzle.READ»

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Facebook Nabs Spotify's Chief Designer, Music Service Imminent?

BY Austin Carr
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Spotify's top designer leaves for Facebook to bring his talents for mixing social interaction and music.READ»

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Sun Microsystems: Your Value to the Community

BY Michael Shick
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As the chief architect of Sun's Community Equity 2.0 (CE2.0) project, Peter Reiser is considering the place of the individual in a social network from the perspective of a computer scientist, a sociologist, a psychologist, and a ...READ»

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Social Media Research with HP Labs

BY Robert Scoble
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Dr. Bernardo Huberman is director of the social computing lab at HP Labs and is a senior fellow, too. Why is HP doing social research? Well, Bernardo tells us and gives us some insights into what his team is learning.READ»

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Developing Facebook's Social O.S.

BY Michael Shick
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With over 200 million registered users, Facebook is the largest social network ever. With that size come opportunities for creating new applications that place social interaction at their core—what Senior Platform Manager, Dave ...READ»

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Entourage Textbook E-Reader: A Solid Hit, but No Home Run

BY Linda Tischler
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It's promising, but manufacturers still haven't found a way to overcome the main hurdle in making these gadgets appealing to students: price.READ»

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Brain scientists make the case for "survival of the kindest."

BY Ray Williams
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Researchers are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are hard-wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, these scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving to become more compassionate, empathetic and collaborative in our quest to survive and thrive.READ»

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Social Media: How did we get here?

BY Paul Miser
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When looking at social media and the popularity of it, we begin to wonder how did we get here? Why is this simple notion of communicating online such an enormous topic of conversation? There are really two overarching themes that have molded this level of communication that creates the perfect storm of communication called “social media.”READ»

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Robert Latham at New School Allowed Ethnic Albanian To Condone Genocide Against Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo

BY Jill Starr
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VI. As I said I left early but I will never forget his phrase stating: “I, Fatmos Ljubonia, have come to the New School for Social Research to ask you, The New School students, to give me, Fatmos Ljubonia, new creative nationalist ideas to PROMOTE AND TO CONSTRUCT A GREATER ALBANIA!”READ»

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19 Surprising Questions to Help You Energize Employee Conversations

BY Thomas Clifford
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“Wow” answers need “wow” questions.If you’re hungry for new answers or different ideas from your team or employees, try changing the questions. Here are a few questions to jump-start almost any conversation you might be ...READ»

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Crescent Prep High School - Students all over the U.S.

BY Crescent Schooling
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Infographic of the Day: Reality Check

BY Kelsey Keith
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A tongue-in-cheek infographic designed by Susanna Hertrich examines society's reality versus perception.READ»

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Socially Networked Content: Why TV & Film Need Social Media

BY James Andrews
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Socially Networked Content: How the best TV shows in the future will be measured by how many viewers are telling stories.READ»

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The Gender-Related Wage Gap You Haven't Heard About

BY Laurence Shatkin
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We all know that women earn, on average, less than men in equivalent positions. But it turns out that there’s another wage gap related to gender: Men who have egalitarian attitudes toward gender roles earn less than men with ...READ»

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iPhone Beats Kindle?

BY Jeanne Meister
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Last week I presented some interesting new findings on the Kindle’s expanding market, and asked you all to weigh in on whether you thought it would continue to expand into the corporate training market. The ...READ»

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Shawn Baldwin from CMG with Nobel Laureate Dr. Gary S. Becker

BY Shawn Baldwin
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Shawn Baldwin from CMG in Chicago with Dr. Gary Becker at the 2009 Milken Global ConferenceREAD»

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Urban Mediaspace: The largest library in Scandinavia

BY Stephen Treffinger
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The firm of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects will build what it calls "the next generation of library design" on the site of the old cargo docks in Aarhus, Denmark. Flexible-use areas will provide ample opportunity for socializing, recreation, contemplation and, yes, reading.READ»

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Leaders Include Variety in Ideas and People

BY Kate Sweetman
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Real leaders seek to avoid groupthink, a common trap that reduces innovation and good decision making because group members agree with each other, no matter what.READ»

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Work Hazards and Hazards to Work

BY Laurence Shatkin
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Once when my daughter was very small and we were dining in a seafood restaurant, she looked at her placemat and was puzzled. The paper placemat was illustrated with colorful pictures of pirates, and she was wondering why so many of ...READ»

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Soliciting Questions For Upcoming Fast Company Call-In

BY Donald Schwartz
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I invite members of the Technology Group to post their questions for the Fast Company.Com call-in I’m moderating next week tentatively titled: FC Examines Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings? The ...READ»

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Does Social Media Make You Less Social

BY Jimmy Gardner
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Just as I was thinking that this Social Media phenomena was actually making me more social, along came this post by Bill Cammack over on FastCompany's new website, which I am liking a lot .. but a post is forthcoming on that soon. ...READ»

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Developing and Building Leadership Know-how

BY Jim Sideras
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How to manage and encourage Leadership 1. The 21st century is different from other times a. Transparency- one can’t hide their performance from either outside or inside activists b. They demand performance 2. Many people ...READ»

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Lynne Johnson Hired As Senior Editor for FastCompany.com

BY Fast Company Staff
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NEW YORK, July 10, 2006 - Fast Company.com announced today that Lynne D. Johnson, 38, has been hired as senior editor of the website. In this capacity, she will oversee editorial and community functionality of FastCompany.com. ...READ»

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Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

BY Alan Deutschman
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Odds are you've run across one of these characters in your career. They're glib, charming, manipulative, deceitful, ruthless -- and very, very destructive. And there may be lots of them in America's corner offices.READ»

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Career Taxidermy

BY Shoshana Zuboff
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Career taxidermy makes dead models of work and family look alive.READ»

Topic: Sociology