Home Depot volunteers fix up Detroit center that serves female veterans as part of efforts to aid former service members
Read More YouTube to launch $10-a-month ad-free video, music plan
Red builds on Google’s existing music streaming service by providing ad-free access to YouTube programming
Read More CEOs to lead Detroit job development efforts
Mayor Mike Duggan’s remake of Detroit’s job development board will be led by Detroit business execs
Read More Strong company earnings send indexes sharply higher
The U.S. stock market rebounded Thursday from a two-day slump, notching its biggest gain in more than two weeks
Read More Safeway goes retro with stamp trade-in promotion
Baby boomers and older generations might remember Green Stamps — the wildly popular program that peaked in the 1960s in which shoppers earned stamps for store purchases and traded them in for toasters and other merchandise.
Now Safeway is bringing back its own version of the S&H Green Stamps campaign.
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Can This Change Eliminate The STEM Gender Gap?
Could recruiting more female university faculty help close the gender gap in STEM? A look at one university’s attempt to change the ratio.
When Tara Glasgow was in graduate school to earn a masters in engineering, she was surrounded by male faculty and students.
Inside One Man’s Six-Figure ‘Back To The Future’ DeLorean Time Machine Business
Former radio host Adam Kontras built a rental empire . . . out of a DeLorean. But is the clock about to strike on his lucrative business?
There’s a seminal moment early in 1985’s Back to the Future when Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, is as dumbfounded by the fact that his friend Doc Brown has built a time machine as he is by the time machine’s base material.
You Can Determine Your Weight Based On What Food Is Visible In Your Kitchen
Lacking healthy eating will power? Give it a nudge by changing how you display your food.
If you want to lose weight, eating healthily and exercising regularly are obviously important. But so is the design of your kitchen: depending on where you place food items like cereals and fruit, your diet could that much more or less effective.
6 Rules For Great Storytelling, From A Moth-Approved Master Of The Form
Moth storytelling champ Margot Leitman has been hired by Facebook and others to help them learn how to spin a yarn. These are her rules.
Some years ago, writes Margot Leitman in her new book, Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need, when she was an aspiring actress in New York, she was preparing to rush to an audition when she burned her neck with a curling iron. “It looked like a giant hickey,” she writes. “There was no makeup that could cover it up; I had to go with it.” She entered the audition room and explained away the burn—not a hickey, she said; her dating history had been terrible lately. The casting director asked her to explain, and she responded with a story about a disastrous recent date where the guy actually balanced his checkbook at the table.
This Frighteningly Smart Office Building Knows Exactly What You Want, When You Want It
The Edge may be the most connected—and greenest—office anywhere in the world. Is this the future of working?
When you pull up for work at Deloitte’s new office building in Amsterdam, the garage automatically recognizes your car or bike, opens the gate, and guides you to a parking spot and a free electric charger. The office app assigns you a desk, based on your schedule for the day and whether you’re in the mood for a standing desk or a place to concentrate. Once you start work, you can use the app to tweak the lighting or heat until it’s just right.
