The world lost an island of genius yesterday when Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple died at age 56 of pancreatic cancer.
There is no better tribute to Mr. Jobs than the script from a famous Apple TV commercial, created in 1997, the year he returned to the company after being forced out, invited back to save the struggling technology company from obscurity. The new ad campaign was called, Think Different.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently…”
Starbucks Corp CEO Howard Schultz, decrying a lack of leadership in Washington, said his chain of coffee shops is helping to launch a nationwide fund designed to stimulate U.S. job creation.
The fund, seeded with a $5 million donation from the Starbucks Foundation, is a partnership with a group of private financial institutions that normally provide affordable loans to low-income people and communities.
A report released last week by the Council of Graduate Schools found that first-time enrollment in science graduate programs increased last fall.
But the study’s most intriguing number was hidden beneath the headlines: 33.6%. That’s the reported percent increase, between the fall semesters of 2009 and 2010, in the number of black and African-American students entering math and computer science graduate programs.
India introduced a cheap tablet computer Wednesday, saying it would deliver modern technology to the countryside to help lift villagers out of poverty.
At $35-$45, the computer, called Aakash, or “sky” in Hindi, is the latest in a series of “world’s cheapest” innovations in India that include a $2,040 compact Nano car, a $15 water purifier and $2,000 open-heart surgery.
Using radiation-loving mushrooms, scientifically referred to as ‘radiotrophic fungi,’ to clean up radioactive or other types of waste is an emerging technique (mycoremediation) that promises to be far less expensive than other competing methods.
In 1987, at the Chernobyl disaster site, a yet unknown species of mold was growing in one of the most hostile environments on the planet, with radiation levels high enough to give a lethal dose in minutes. But these fungi weren’t just growing, they were thriving.
Auto sales defied a downcast economy in September, climbing 9.9 percent to their highest level in five months as new models arrived at dealerships and inventory shortages eased.
All three of the Detroit automakers reported gains, led by a 27.2 percent year-over-year increase for Chrysler.
Auto executives and analysts said shoppers had not been dissuaded by a declining stock market, bleak consumer confidence surveys, a sluggish housing market or high unemployment.
Michael Hingson was at his desk on the 78th floor in the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11 when an airline crashed into the building, 18 floors above. He lived to tell the tale because of his guide dog, Roselle.
The yellow lab calmly guided her blind charge 1,463 steps out of the building and, as debris fell and dust billowed, found a subway station and led them both underground to safety.
Roselle died in June at the age 13, but her heroism lives on. At a star-studded red carpet event in L.A. Saturday night the yellow lab was was honored as the American Hero Dog of the Year.
A store clerk’s mistake led to a $25 million lottery win for an unemployed Georgia woman. Kathy Scruggs, 44, asked for the sale of a Mega Millions ticket, but when she was handed a Powerball drawing along with the first ticket, she accepted them both.
She discovered her good fortune the night after the drawing and woke up the entire house.
“We were screaming and hollering, and everybody came running,” she said. “I could not believe it.”
Scruggs had been unemployed and trying to find a job for many months.
“I’ve been looking and looking and looking,” she said.
She will finally own a car, she says, and plans to help her family and others.
“I’m going to build my mom and grandmother a home,” she said. “That’s my first focus.”
She also wants to start foundations to help the homeless and to provide dental assistance to those in need.
Scruggs selected the cash option and will receive $15,124,017 before taxes.
As with all other Georgia Lottery games, proceeds from Powerball will benefit education in the state of Georgia. Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corp. has returned more than $12.7 billion to the state of Georgia for education.
A store clerk’s mistake led to a $25 million lottery win for an unemployed Georgia woman. Kathy Scruggs, 44, asked for the sale of a Mega Millions ticket, but when she was handed a Powerball drawing along with the first ticket, she accepted them both.
She discovered her good fortune the night after the drawing and woke up the entire house.
“We were screaming and hollering, and everybody came running,” she said. “I could not believe it.”
Scruggs had been unemployed and trying to find a job for many months.
The latest artistic stunt by Improv Everywhere featured a constructed custom wooden lectern with a megaphone attached and a sign that read, “Say Something Nice.”
The lectern was placed in a public square in New York City and then left alone. See what happens when New Yorkers are given the opportunity to amplify their voices and “say something nice.”
See the back story and learn more about Improv Everywhere on their website: ImprovEverywhere.com.
The latest artistic stunt by Improv Everywhere featured a constructed custom wooden lectern with a megaphone attached and a sign that read, “Say Something Nice.”
The lectern was placed in a public square in New York City and then left alone. See what happens when New Yorkers are given the opportunity to amplify their voices and “say something nice.”
The University of Maryland team won top honors over the weekend in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011. Competing against schools from across the world, the Maryland students were awarded first place for designing, building, and operating the most cost effective, energy efficient and attractive solar powered house.
Purdue University took second place followed by New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington) in third place. The solar homes are all temporarily constructed and on display and open to the public in Washington, DC on the National Mall every year.
The University of Maryland team won top honors over the weekend in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011. Competing against schools from across the world, the Maryland students were awarded first place for designing, building, and operating the most cost effective, energy efficient and attractive solar powered house.
Purdue University took second place followed by New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington) in third place. The solar homes are all temporarily constructed and on display and open to the public in Washington, DC on the National Mall every year.
Midlife women are flourishing compared with men. Despite the daily gloom of economic predictions, women in midlife are more optimistic about their lives and futures than men are.
25% of women ages 45 to 55 give themselves a 10 out of 10 on optimism about their future, finds a Gallup-Healthways daily poll of Americans’ well-being.
It may be key that the most optimistic women spend about six hours a day in social interaction.
We can learn a lot by looking back on the fifth anniversary of the Amish schoolhouse shootings, to the striking actions of the Amish community following the murders when they immediately expressed forgiveness to the shooter’s family.
This was not forgiveness offered in a prepared statement, delivered by lawyers or news crews, but forgiveness offered in person, from one human being to another.
What the Amish consider to be “standard Christian forgiveness” can teach all of us — in our own personal and political conflicts — that forgiveness is a way of life learned and lived in community.
We can learn a lot by looking back on the fifth anniversary of the Amish schoolhouse shootings, to the striking actions of the Amish community following the murders when they immediately expressed forgiveness to the shooter’s family.
This was not forgiveness offered in a prepared statement, delivered by lawyers or news crews, but forgiveness offered in person, from one human being to another.
What the Amish consider to be “standard Christian forgiveness” can teach all of us — in our own personal and political conflicts — that forgiveness is a way of life learned and lived in community.
With all the focus on Solyndra and the attacks on green jobs from the Right, the mainstream media have completely overlooked the explosive success of the weatherization assistance program (WAP) funded almost exclusively by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, say Jorge Madrid and Adam James, from the Center for American Progress.
“By the end of ARRA’s three-year lifespan next March, the WAP will almost double the number of homes upgraded in the first year of the program — bringing the total number of energy efficiency projects to 720,000.
“Not only has the WAP created jobs desperately needed in the construction industry, it also provides a boost for American manufacturing and small businesses.
The world lost an island of genius yesterday when Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple died at age 56 of pancreatic cancer.
