Recent Articles
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Are you running to a new job — or from your current one?
Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIf you are contemplating making a job change, it's time to ask yourself the hard question: How much of your motivation is running to a new opportunity, versus running from your present situation? There are some days that every employee dreads strapping on the uniform and going to work. And there are some jobs that downright sap the joy out of working.
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The destruction of Main Street: Why trains still matter to communities
Ryan Clark Transportation Technology & AutomotiveIn Laurel, Maryland, a MARC commuter train — the driving force for growing and maintaining the community for close to 200 years — is under attack by a developer who wants to move the train stop to a more preferable location.
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How to create a social media marketing plan in 5 steps
Emma Fitzpatrick MarketingThe average marketer spends more than 11 hours per week on social media, while small business owners typically invest 6 to 10 hours. What seems like a staggering amount of time is actually time well spent.
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Drawing is an integral learning tool
Pamela Hill EducationIn schools, the act of drawing is often pigeonholed to specific areas of academics and instruction. It is observed in lower elementary grades as a constant, but less and less as students progress through higher level grades.
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Powerful gene editing could make pigs perfect organ donors
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareBy modifying 62 genes in pig embryos, scientists think they may have found a way to make pigs suitable organ donors for humans. Led by Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church, the work was presented Oct. 5 at a meeting of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Church and his colleagues spoke about using CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to inactivate 62 porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) in pig embryos. Embedded in all pigs' genomes, the viruses cannot be treated or neutralized once present in a human.
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Cutting-edge plastic electronic devices coming of age
Don Rosato EngineeringE/E devices keyed to polymer-based technology are being developed for the nanophotonics market that could make computers and the Internet 100 times faster. Researchers at Samsung have discovered a method that could allow a single crystal of graphene to retain its electrical and mechanical properties across a large area. The process could allow graphene to be used at its full potential in future electronic devices.
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If processed meats cause cancer, what should the food industry do?
Linchi Kwok Food & BeverageHere is the biggest news I heard last week: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that processed meats — such as bacon, sausage, ham, and hot dogs — can cause colon cancer. Now, for the first time processed meats are considered as dangerous as tobacco and asbestos. Red meats in general, including beef, pork and lamb, are also found to be "probably carcinogenic" to people.
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Walgreens: Happy, healthy — and huge
Jason Poquette PharmaceuticalWalgreens has been on something of a growth spurt lately, and the latest proposed acquisition of the nearly 4,600 Rite Aid stores suggests their appetite for enlargement isn't slowing down. If the deal goes through, the result will be a more than 50 percent increase in the number of Walgreens stores (to about 12,700). This will put them well ahead of CVS (roughly 9,500 after the Target deal), their next closest competitor.
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I hate football: Handling an employee who doesn’t fit in
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThere are those who are sent to HR and those who voluntarily show up. Of that latter group, I have seen some pretty strange complaints, requests and concerns. Recently, I had someone come to complain about football. The beef: All anyone does on Monday is talk about football, and this guy has no interest in it. He feels like he has to find a way to talk about it and believes he will be alienated if he does not participate.
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Fostering reading through student choice in high school
Brian Stack EducationLike many Generation Xers and millennials, my high school English classroom memories stem from my experiences reading popular required readings such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye.