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Jellyfish Are Taking Over, So This Company Wants To Turn Them Into Paper Towels

In many places, like beaches in Israel, there are too many jellyfish, nourished by rising ocean temperatures and acidity. Besides stinging swimmers in that country and worldwide, they can cause other...

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10 Ingenious Reinventions Of Everyday Products

There are certain things that don't need to be reinvented, like the wheel.But once in a while, someone transforms an everyday object no one thought could be improved.Here are some of the best redesigns...

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This Genius Door Handle Could Help Stop Doctors From Spreading Dangerous...

Hospitals aren't always safe places.In 2011, more than 700,000 people got an infection while they were in a U.S. hospital, according to a study released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and...

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Here's How To Keep Your Company From Getting Crushed By The Next Big Thing

Innovation is not a single moment of catharsis, upheaval, or revamping. It is not a change in the form of a one-hit product; instead, it is a continuous process. In his 1942 book "Capitalism,...

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How The Legal Pot Industry Fuels Scientific Innovation

The legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado is turning an underground industry into a big business — and ushering in innovations in everything from genetics to growing methods.The...

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This Tiny Scanner Will Tell You Exactly What Is In Your Food

A new Kickstarter has just been funded to create a device about the size of a car clicker to tell you what is in your food.The scanner harnesses the power of physics and chemistry to figure out...

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Hibernation Could Be Used To Save People's Lives

Imagine it: you have been rushed into the emergency room and you are dying. Your injuries are too severe for the surgeons to repair in time. Your blood haemorrhages unseen from ruptured vessels. The...

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Office Pranks Make Companies More Innovative And Creative

It’s late spring, the time of year when school administrators arrive at work to find toilet paper festooning their offices, chickens let loose in the hallways, and used tires slung around the...

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4 Tips On How To Be Wildly Creative From Pixar's President

Growing up, Ed Catmull was transfixed by two things: Disney films and computer science. He went on to earn his PhD in the latter, but he never forgot the magic he discovered in animation. Finally, a...

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15 Amazing Science Discoveries Inspired By Complete Accidents

Some scientific discoveries come about after painstaking, goal-oriented lab work finally yields the result that a researcher is trying to find.But frequently, some lucky accident leads to a...

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An Ex-Goldman Sachs Analyst Has A New Startup That Wants To Fix Everything...

After voluntarily deploying to Afghanistan for a year, former Goldman Sachs analyst Greg Behrman returned to the United States and was baffled by the lack of focus on public service and the people...

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8 Tech Triumphs At The World Cup

If there’s one thing that can unite the human race on the global level, it’s the chance to rub your athletic superiority in another nation’s face. The 2014 FIFA World Cup is upon us, and beyond the...

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The New Yorker's Takedown Of Disruptive Innovation Is Causing A Huge Stir

The New Yorker's Jill Lepore thinks the theory of disruptive innovation, which contends that industries progress when small upstarts usurp more powerful mainstays by doing something more efficiently...

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Clayton Christensen: The New Yorker's Attack On My Theory Of Disruption Is 'A...

The New Yorker's Jill Lepore caused a stir in the entrepreneurial community earlier this week when her article, "The Disruption Machine," was published.It's a lengthy takedown of Harvard Business...

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12 Laws Of Building A Great Company From One Of America's Most Innovative...

Ari Weinzweig, CEO and cofounder of Zingerman's gourmet food company, has made few traditional management decisions since opening Zingerman's Deli in 1982.Zingerman's Community of Businesses is a...

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The Most Important People Working In Robotics Today

For every great robotic creation that comes to "life," whether it's a bot that folds your laundry or simply an academic paper that fleshes out a great idea, there is a small army of roboticists that...

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11 Startups We Wish Existed

Seems like there's a startup for everything these days, and yet somehow the solution we're really aching for just hasn't been created yet.We decided to put together a list of the startups we wish...

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One Man Claims Microsoft Stole His Biggest Idea

From a suburb of Philadelphia, a man named Rob Morris watches Microsoft collect $3 billion in licensing fees from a patented technology he feels is ultimately his.At the peak of Microsoft’s browser war...

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How A Blue-Footed Boobie Helped Create The Warby Parker Brand

When you open a case of Warby Parker glasses, there's a pop of bright blue. It's an allusion to a rare bird called the blue-footed boobie, explains co-CEO and cofounder Neil Blumenthal in his new...

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Richard Branson's 5 Secrets To Starting A Successful Business

Richard Branson opened a small record shop called Virgin Records in 1970. He had dropped out of high school a few years prior, and his only other business experience was running his own magazine.Today,...

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