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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.

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 recent study, might not solely apply to careers spent around toxic waste or malfunctioning equipment—they could very well describe any career that’s leaving you unsatisfied.

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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.

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 bootcamps touting the idea that if you learn the basics of computer programming, you will almost certainly be guaranteed a sweet gig. Indeed, Bloomberg Businessweek devoted an entire issue to explaining precisely what code is.

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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.

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. That’s the painful truth for people who lose their vision to diseases like macular degeneration or glaucoma, which destroy the retina—the image sensor of the eye—or the optic nerve that connects eyes to the brain. But some laws of human health were made to be broken, and that may soon be true for the law of irreversible nerve damage. The U.S. government’s National Eye Institute said today that it will put up $12.4 million to fund six studies on technologies that can regenerate damaged eyes.

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

At APF in the 1970s, as the second-known African-American video game engineer, he helped create an industry.

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 Machine, a hybrid video game console and personal computer designed to make a consumer’s first experience with computing as painless and inexpensive as possible.

APF’s playful computer (and its game console, the MP1000) never rivaled the impact of products from Apple or Atari, but they remain historically important because of the man who cocreated them: Ed Smith, one of the first African-American electronics engineers in the video game industry. During a time when black Americans struggled for social justice, Manhattan-based APF hired Smith to design the core element of its future electronics business.

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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.

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 boss. Don’t quit on the spot—especially if you don’t have another job lined up. And try not to get too sloppy during office happy hour.

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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.

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 2014 Pew Internet and American Life survey said that the internet and mobile phones help them learn new things, and 72% like having access to so much information.

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