Enlarge Wade Payne/Invision/AP Nate Ruess of Fun performs at the Grammy Nominations Concert Live! at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. Wade Payne/Invision/AP Nate Ruess of Fun performs at the Grammy Nominations Concert Live! at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. The Grammy Awards celebrated the diversity […]
John McAfee, with a woman described as his girlfriend, on the way into the Supreme Court in Guatemala City on Tuesday. Johan Ordonez /AFP/Getty Images Wanted for questioning in Belize about the murder of a neighbor, anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee is sitting in a Guatemalan jail — and blogging about the experience. “I am
Enlarge image In an experiment, people who saw a picture of a big bowl of soup before eating lunch were less hungry a few hours later than those who saw a smaller bowl, regardless of how much they ate at the meal. stuart burford photography/iStockphoto.com In an experiment, people who saw a picture of a
Some top-tier business schools are offering more than just finance and marketing these days: Duke, UCLA, MIT and Stanford are all teaching improv. Professors say these techniques help students increase collaboration, creativity and risk taking. In an improvisational leadership class at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, instructor Daena Giardella coaches a scene where a hospital
Enlarge image Dairy farmer Bob Andrews feeds heifers in the same barn his grandfather used. He says today “the harder you work, the further you get behind.” David Sommerstein/NCPR Dairy farmer Bob Andrews feeds heifers in the same barn his grandfather used. He says today “the harder you work, the further you get behind.” David
Enlarge image Work can start again: This ship, loaded with containers, was sitting beneath idle cranes Tuesday at the Port of Los Angeles. Robyn Beck /AFP/Getty Images Work can start again: This ship, loaded with containers, was sitting beneath idle cranes Tuesday at the Port of Los Angeles. Robyn Beck /AFP/Getty Images A week-old strike
Enlarge image The largest tax break in the federal code doesn’t appear on the forms the average person fills out each year. iStockphoto.com The largest tax break in the federal code doesn’t appear on the forms the average person fills out each year. iStockphoto.com What’s the largest tax break in the federal tax code? If
NPR Despite their recent woes, “daily deal” companies Groupon and Living Social can be profitable, says analyst Arvind Bhatia. Are the days of “daily deal” coupons about to expire? Shares of email coupon company Groupon are down nearly 80 percent since going public last year. And its smaller rival, Living Social, plans to lay off
Enlarge Historical photograph courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory A Quonset hut on the grounds of the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico where “Fat Man” was assembled in World War II. Fat Man was the nickname given to the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945. The hut would be
Enlarge Alex Wong/Getty Images The CIA is looking to employ a community it historically rejected. Alex Wong/Getty Images The CIA is looking to employ a community it historically rejected. As part of the CIA’s efforts to diversify its workforce, the spy agency is reaching out to a group that once was unable to get security
Enlarge NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity cut a wheel scuff mark into a wind-formed ripple at the “Rocknest” site to give researchers a better opportunity to examine the particle-size distribution of the material forming the ripple. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity cut a wheel scuff mark into a wind-formed ripple at the “Rocknest” site to
A member of the U.S. Coast Guard died early Sunday morning during an investigation near Santa Cruz Island, Calif. A boat suspected of “illicit activities” rammed into the Coast Guard vessel, throwing two Guard members overboard, authorities said in a press release. One of the crew members sustained only minor injuries, while the other had