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You're Fired. Now Apply For Your Own Job Posted: 4 months ago by suebe
The Journal News, a newspaper in Westchester County, New York, told nearly 300 editorial and advertising employees that they'd have to reapply for their own jobs at the paper and hope to be rehired, ABCNews.com reports.
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The Therapeutic Value of Journaling Posted: 5 months ago by yugosakimi
Discusses the value of keeping a journal, both from a workplace standpoint and at home. Short, but useful and thoughtful.
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Ladies Home Journal Predicts the Future Posted: 3 years ago by VooDooPeacock
What did people in 1900 think today would be like? Well, we'd be eating strawberries the size of apples, Grand Opera will be telephoned into our homes, college will be free for everyone, the only wild animals will be in zoos, and wars will be fought by forts on wheels!
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Write in my journal Posted: 1 year ago by barwench
"I approach people who look interesting - like they have a story to tell - and ask them if they, knowing they’ll most likely never see me again, will write in my journal."
Neat idea, even neater stories.
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Clinical Trials: Unfavourable Results Often Go Unpublished Posted: 10 months ago by karenben
Trials showing a positive treatment effect, or those with important or striking findings, are much more likely to be published in scientific journals than those with negative findings.
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The Economics of Giving It Away Posted: 10 months ago by 2manyusernames
How giving away product can be quite profitable for companies.
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Jamie Livingston: Photo of the Day Posted: 2 years ago by muppetmaker
Every day, for almost 7,000 days, starting in 1979, Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid. In 1997 he died, and his friends and family gathered together the photos and made them into an exhibit. This is some pretty awesome stuff.
The real website just recently got huge hits on it causing it to shut down, but here is a blog with some sample photos and a summary of this man's life. I will update the post if the website gets back up and running.
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Get Mortified Posted: 1 year ago by muppetmaker
Its hidden in your attic, or under your bed, behind that bag of halloween decorations in your crawl space... Its that box of poems, pictures, and trinkets from your youth. This is the place to share them, and discovers other's.
My favorite quote: "She wanted it, I wanted to give it to her. I just didn't know what it was."
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WOMEN IN COMBAT: IS THE CURRENT POLICY OBSOLETE? Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
American women have fought and served in every U.S. war, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Today, there are over 198,000 women in the active duty military, constituting 14.5% of the active force. Women are integral members of the armed forces and they are here to stay. Yet despite women's accomplishments throughout history, and most recently in the War on Terror, DoD policy still prohibits women from serving in approximately 200,000 positions in the military.
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New Vagina Double Plus Ungood says Ministry of Vaginas Posted: 3 years ago by pulsisx
It's a different article... Not only is there a disturbing lack of data about the phenomenon, there has been negligible assessment about surgical after-effects -- and almost zero reflexion as to whether a labial "problem" exists in the first place, the BMJ says angrily.
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Always Be Proud, Son Posted: 11 months ago by suebe
Advice from a GI who never came home.
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Hitchhiking Across America Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
Photographer Cody Smart hitchhikes from New York to Alaska and back.
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More Scientists Join Gangs Posted: 10 months ago by Bornbad
The journal Science Watch tracks statistics about which scientists publish where, when and how often. Every few years, Science Watch makes a brave plunge into the sea of so-called multi-author papers. Its most recent look shows that increasing numbers of papers have 50, 100, 200 and even 500 authors.
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Daily Journal of One Man's Bowel Movements? Posted: 3 years ago by Slick37c
Funny? Weird? Over the top? You be the judge.
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HIV-blocking Gel For Women: New 'Molecular Condom' Meant To Prevent AIDS Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
A study testing the behavior of the new gel and showing how it traps AIDS-causing HIV particles will be published online later this week in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. Kiser is the senior author.
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Saturn moon may have hidden ocean Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Saturn's moon Titan may have a deep, hidden ocean, according to data published in the journal Science. Radar images from the Cassini-Huygens mission reinforce predictions that a reservoir of liquid water exists beneath the thick crust of ice. If confirmed, it would mean that Titan has two of the key components for life - water and organic molecules.
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Curing Insomnia Without the Pills Posted: 2 years ago by eljay
For people with chronic insomnia, studies show that simple behavioral and psychological treatments work just as well, and sometimes better, than popular medications, according to a report in The Journal of Family Practice.
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Prehistoric fish invented sex Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Sex has been a fact of life for at least 380m years, longer than previously thought.
Internal fertilisation was widespread among prehistoric fish living on ancient tropical coral reefs in the Devonian period, research published in the journal Nature showed today.
The discovery sheds new light on the reproductive history of all jawed vertebrates, including humans.
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University journal apologizes for "satirical" Christmas Carol. Posted: 3 years ago by tomphoolry
Prints "Oh Come, All Ye Black Folk". For supposedly smart people in college, this was pretty stupid.
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Human blood vessels grown in mice Posted: 1 year ago by deEPCHIll
Scientists have used human cells to grow new blood vessels in a mouse for the first time, a US journal reports.
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