School starts next week in most of Maryland, but the average family with grade school age kids has bought only half the necessary clothing and supplies, a survey out today shows.
Read More Ashley Madison Earned Millions Through Its “Full Delete” Option
The controversial dating site charged users $19 to erase their profiles—and made nearly $2 million from the service last year.
As the fallout from the Ashley Madison data dump continues, it now appears that the controversial site made millions in 2014 by charging users to “fully delete” their profiles.
Can I Change My Mind After Accepting A Job Offer?
Do you owe it to a future employer to follow through on taking a position if you are having second thoughts? Is backing out a career killer?
Everyone second-guesses a decision at some point. While some things like choosing a bad restaurant or getting stuck in traffic have very minor consequences on your life, other decisions, like choosing the wrong partner or the wrong job, can make your life miserable.
Six Millennial Entrepreneurs Share Their Lessons From Early Failure
You can’t achieve success early in life without also getting over failure fast. Here’s what everyone can learn from the ambitions of youth.
Wisdom often comes with maturity, but a growing number of young entrepreneurs are proving that age doesn’t matter when it comes to achieving success. In the new book 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World, coauthors Stacey Ferreira and Jared Kleinert share the stories of 75 ambitious entrepreneurs who started with an idea and turned it into reality.
What To Say (And What To Keep To Yourself) During A Confrontation
The words you choose during an argument can destroy relationships or help create a more cooperative and productive workplace.
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” may have been true in an age when epithets were flung from children’s mouths on the playground, but in business—especially online—words pack a lot more punch.
How Smarter School Architecture Can Help Kids Eat Healthier Food
To address the growing obesity crisis among its children, a rural Virginia school had to give itself a full redesign.
Some schools have banned junk food. Some have added longer gym classes, new nutrition classes, or even required standing desks. But childhood obesity rates are still about three times higher than they were in 1980. Now schools are adding another tool to the fight for fitter kids: Architecture.
We’re Spending $10 Billion On Kids’ Classroom Technology—But Does It Help Them Learn?
The jury’s still out.
I’m only seconds into a digital copy of T.S. Eliot’s famous ode to adolescence, The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock, when my ears prickle uncomfortably. As I read—”Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky, / Like a patient etherised upon a table”—a soft rock track reminiscent of James Taylor begins to crescendo in the background. Eliot’s arch observations are drowned out by the acoustic guitar and its upbeat melody.
These Eye-Popping Lego Masterpieces Raise The Stakes For Plastic Bricks
Beautiful Lego: Wild! is a journey from the smallest bacteria to sweeping natural vistas, all made from the colorful toy bricks.
Just as The Lego Movie taught us, creativity with the colored plastic blocks shouldn’t be limited to following set instructions to build preconceived scenes. The proof of the medium’s endless possibilities is in the work of Lego designers around the world, which curator Mike Doyle, a Lego artist himself, is collecting in the book series Beautiful Lego from San Francisco’s No Starch Press.
The Talon Is Like A Wii For Your Ring Finger
Created by Titanium Falcon, this smart ring aims to make any hand a motion controller.
Almost a decade ago, Nintendo unveiled the next big thing in game controllers: the Wiimote, a gyroscopic Bluetooth wand about the size of a ruler that allowed you to control video games across the room, just by waving your arm. It seemed cutting edge at the time, but now, a new company called Titanium Falcon thinks it can make a Wii-like motion controller small enough to wear as a ring.
The Longshot Electric Car Being Developed By China’s Netflix
A Chinese video streaming company has set its sights on Tesla, hired 200 U.S. developers, and revealed the first concept for their EV.
LeTV is developing an electric car to take on Tesla. They’ve hired 600 people—including 200 stationed in the U.S.—to develop the car that they revealed for the first time this week.
