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The Not-So-Rich-Any-More List | Business
Even before the financial crisis, the Occupy movement and the new era of austerity , the Sunday Times Rich List was an odd kind of fixture in the media landscape. The annual roll call of the wealthiest 1,000 individuals or families in the UK has always triggered the full range of our ambivalent responses to people with staggering amounts of money: envy, admiration, disdain, awe, and that special flavour of inverse snobbery that stems from being convinced that you've spent your life more meaningfully than the head of the Tetra Pak food-packaging empire, whatever the impact on your bank balance. Now, though, for reasons we all understand, attitudes towards the super-rich are changing: disdain is hardening into anger; ambivalence has been replaced with hostility. Despite a still-weak economy, the collective wealth of the 2011 Rich List increased by £60.2bn on the previous year , and in the 2012 list, which is published tomorrow, that divergence looks set to get larger.
El rostro de la guerra: fotografías de soldados antes, durante y después de Afganistán
La serie ‘We Are The Not Dead’: Soldiers on Afghan Mission, del fotógrafo escocés Lalage Snow, retrata, literalmente, los devastadores efectos de una guerra sobre la psique de los combatientes. Mucho se ha hablado sobre la guerra, sobre su esencia ligada a una intención –tal vez primitiva– de dominar, sobre los desmoralizantes efectos que imprime en una sociedad y el monumental costo financiero, ético, psicológico y vivencial que implica. Hoy imaginamos, con relativa fidelidad y gracias a ciertos reportajes, filmes, y crónicas, que el participar en una guerra puede ser, comprensiblemente, un evento devastador para la naturaleza humana. Pero lo cierto es que pocos documentos retratan de manera tan contundente las implicaciones que una experiencia bélica puede tener en la psique de una persona, como la serie ‘We Are The Not Dead’: Soldiers on Afghan Mission , del fotógrafo escocés Lalage Snow.
Walmart is always good for destroying your faith in humanity on Black Friday, and this year was no exception : By day’s end, reports emerged from stores across the country of biblical struggles over waffle makers, pepper-spraying, and even at least one shooting. Maybe if shoppers took a closer look at Walmart’s business doings they wouldn’t be so willing to whip out legal airborne torture for a bargain Xbox. Or maybe they would, I don’t know. Still, what Frugal Dad has strung together in Weight of Walmart above, has to give even the most hardened Black Friday criminals pause.
Infographic Of The Day: Walmart Dwarfs Entire Industries And Nations
During World War II, U.S. Army Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall asked average soldiers how they conducted themselves in battle.
Hope on the Battlefield
Embed this infographic on your site! <a href="http://www.businessmba.org/top-entrepreneurs/"><img src="http://www.businessmba.org/top-entrepreneurs/biggest-entrepreneurs-2011.jpg" alt="10 Biggest Entrepreneurs of 2011" width="500" border="0" /></a><br />From: <a href="http://www.businessmba.org">BusinessMBA.org</a> Do a quick search for important entrepreneurs. Do you see any wrinkles on those faces? You sure don’t—some of them might even still have baby fat. Inc. does a yearly list of the top 30 entrepreneurs under 30.
10 Biggest Entrepreneurs of 2011
October 18th, 2011. You may have seen these these floating around with supposedly promoting The Smithsonian Museum. They are in fact a series of self promotional work from the team at An Erratic Perspective . The Smithsonian Museum reference was initially put to may the posters more authentic, but removed after the posters viral popularity on the internet, to avoid confusion. In any event, the series deserves a mentioned. What do you think?
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Is Starting A Business Safer Than Your Job? [Infographic]
With a slow economy, many people have turned to entrepreneurship as a means to pay the bills. Which begs the question, what’s better today — getting a job or starting a business? We dug deep to find out the numbers and have compared the risk of starting a business to keeping a job. If you’ve ever thought about starting your own company, take a look at our graphic below to help decide if entrepreneurship is right for you. What do you think?
Occupy Design: Visual Tools for the 99 Percent - Design
Last weekend, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. hosted spontaneous " Hackathons " to brainstorm how to use various platforms to help Occupy Wall Street. One of the ideas hatched was Occupy Design , a new website that gives a "visual language" to protesters across the country. Jake Levitas, a designer from San Francisco who's heading up the project, says it's a chance to fight back at media who characterize the movement as directionless.
The Astounding Design Of Eixample, Barcelona - All That Is Interesting
Constructed in the early 20th century, Eixample is a district of the Spanish city of Barcelona known for the urban planning that divided the district into octagonal blocks. Influenced by a range of schools of architecture, Eixample was designed in a grid pattern with long streets, wide avenues, and rounded street corners. Despite being in the center of a thriving European metropolis, the district provides improved living conditions for inhabitants including extensive sun light, improved ventilation, and more open green space for public use. And of course, the result from the grid-like structure is astounding from above: <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors.
How to pick a co-founder
Apple Computer Inc. was established on April 1st, 1976 and incorporated on January 3rd, 1977. Apple first started advertising its products in the late 1970s. Here’s a amazing compilation of some of Apple’s most notable advertisements from the 70s until the 2002. It’s amazing how much the Apple product line and technology in general has evolved in such a relatively short period of time.
Retrospective and Evolution of Apple Ads
Oops - sorry! The page you requested has been moved or does not exist. The National Museum of American History website recently underwent a substantial redesign. As a result, many pages were moved.
Money in Transition
Maybe you heard the story that went viral today about how the original recipe for Coke may have been revealed after being closely guarded by the company for 125 years. ABC , CBS , NPR , Time , USAToday , Al Jazeera English --everybody’s on the case. Maybe you’ve seen the photo of the hand-written recipe in question (above).