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Creativity: now there’s a word I thought I wouldn’t see under attack. Don’t we live in a society that thrives on the idea of innovation and creative thought?
Why Are We So Afraid of Creativity?
7 Things Highly Productive People Do
Flickr/ryantron You probably don’t want to admit it but you love distractions. In fact, just like monkeys, you get a shot of dopamine every time something pulls you in another direction.
Chart: One Year of Prison Costs More Than One Year at Princeton - Brian Resnick - National - The Atlantic
One year at Princeton University: $37,000. One year at a New Jersey state prison: $44,000.
What You Wish You'd Known Before Your Job Interview (infographic)
Job interviews can be challenging, in part because there is so much that can go wrong. There is dressing appropriately, of course, and ensuring that your resume is up-to-date and error-free.
The genes in our bodies can be traced back over three-and-a-half billion years to a single organism, Luca, the Last Universal Common Ancestor.
Everything is a Remix
Poverty robs people of dignity, hope, and the power to determine their own future. We're highlighting eight of the global issues that underpin poverty, and some of the changes required to shift the balance of power in favour of the poorest.
Poverty Over - Christian Aid
Internet/Google stuff
In May 2011, the United States owned $14.3 trillion in debt. A lot of that is money is owed to other countries. Heather Billings and Todd Lindeman of The Washington Post break foreign debt down by continent and then by country .
All the countries that the US owes money to
Inspired by the visualization Our Mountain of Debt by the Washington Post, we mapped how much the United States owes to foreign countries and to whom. Our goal with this visualization was to show which countries are lending us money and to let people interact with data on a country by country basis to see how this lending has changed over time.