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Six Designs For Houses That Cost Just $300 To Build

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Morgan Clendaniel - Jun. 22 (News Report) - Shelter is one of humanity's most basic needs. But a house is a luxury beyond the wildest dreams of most people in the developed world--leading to dangerous and unsanitary shantytowns, which compound the problems of poverty and disease. The $300 House Project, for which designers were asked to figure out a way to construct a simple house for $300 or less, aimed to solve this problem, by creating cheap and simple to build houses that could be built on a massive scale. The winners--judged by luminaries like Yves Behar and Umair Haque--were recently announced.

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Driving Is Why You're Fat

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Ariel Schwartz - May. 15 (Comment) - Obesity is a complicated disease. It can be caused by your mom's pregnancy diet, genetics, your KFC Double Down habit, or some combination of all three. But why has the problem reached such epidemic proportions in the U.S.? Researchers at the University of Illinois think our car culture may be to blame. After analyzing national statistics from between 1985 and 2007, the researchers found that vehicle use (measured in annual vehicle miles traveled) correlated approximately 99% with annual obesity rates. The more we sit around doing nothing in our cars, the fatter we get. Of course, cars and roads aren't going anywhere, but we could stand to drive just a little bit less. If every licensed driver in the country cut down on travel by just one mile each day, in six years the obesity rate would drop 2.16%--cutting down on the number of obese adults by almost 5 million people, according to PhysOrg.

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How Carrots Became the New Junk Food

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Douglas McGray - Mar. 22 (News) - Jeff Dunn believes he can double the $1 billion baby-carrot business -- and promote healthy eating -- by marketing the vegetable like Doritos. His secret weapon? He knows every snack-marketing trick in the book.

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How Haystack Risked Exposing Iranian Dissidents

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Fast Company - By Neal Ungerleider - Mar. 12 (News) - In Sept. 2010, security experts discovered a problem: Iranian authorities, the very ones Haystack was supposed to circumvent and shield against, were exploiting massive holes in the encryption scheme to snoop on dissidents.

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The Future According to Schmidt: "Augmented Humanity,"

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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Google Faces Off With Facebook, Denying It Gmail Contacts Data

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:26:20 -0800

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Twitter Crushing Facebook's Click-Through Rate: Report

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:40:05 -0700

Fast Company - Oct. 11 - The Influence Project What is the most effective way for marketers to spread their message online? Facebook? Twitter? Company blogs? Email?

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Former Combat Soldier-Activist Paul Rieckhoff on Wikileaks and Founder Julian Assange

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:08:48 -0700

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What Other Automakers Can Learn from Alan Mulally

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Fast Company - By Jd Rucker - Mar. 08 (News Analysis) - In September, 2006, then-CEO of Ford Motor Company William Clay Ford Jr. took a risk. In search of his own replacement, his offers were passed up by a pair of respected automotive leaders, so he did something few (if any) anticipate: he hired an aeronautical engineer to lead his own company. The rest is turning into history.

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Advertising Marketing Coordinator Responsibilities in Advertising | ProjectGuide

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Fast Company - Feb. 07 (News) - Advertising Marketing Coordinator Responsibilities in Advertising | ProjectGuide | Fast Company

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The Future of Health Care Is Social

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Jennifer Kilian, Barbara Pantuso - Oct. 06 (Special Report) - Too many of us are too busy to be healthy--not because we lack awareness. We know what we need to do. It's finding the time to do it that's the problem. In an age of 24/7 connectivity that requires our near-constant vigilance, time feels more pressed than ever. Yet, it may be that the very technology allowing us this around-the-clock connection can transform how we manage our health.

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Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Anya Kamenetz - Jul. 20 (Special Report) - But if many of us see this moment as a defining one, a key opportunity to reassess how we create and use energy across the country, the federal government seems content to leave the owners of the old energy world in charge of designing the new one. Big utilities are pushing hard to do what they do best -- getting the government to subsidize construction of multi-billion-dollar, far-flung, supersize solar and wind farms covering millions of acres, all connected via outsize transmission lines.

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Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Todd Lewan - Jul. 11 (Poll) - -- Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.

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How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Ellen McGirt - Mar. 17 (Special Report) - The untold story of how Chris Hughes, today only 25 years old, helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history, Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign. Chris Hughes is having a philosophical moment. "I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word." We are in Washington, D.C., just three days before his most recent boss, Barack Obama, will take office. It is so bone-jarringly cold that even nestled over coffee inside a Starbucks, we can see our breath. I resist the urge to pat his nearly whiskerless cheek, or reach over to tighten his jacket against the frigid air. Such a baby face. But at the age of 25, Hughes has helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history, Facebook and the campaign apparatus that got Barack Obama elected. Both were dedicated to the proposition that communities, and the way we share and interact within them, are vitally important. As he recounts his two years as director of online organizing for the man who put community organizing on the map, the existential reverie is understandable. He doesn't know what community means? Really? "Well, I just never think of myself as being in the business of building an online community." Hughes is a technology star whose business is people. At Facebook and in the Obama campaign, he has been plowing what he observes about human behavior into online systems that help real people do what they want to do in their real lives. He helped develop the most robust set of Web-based social-networking tools ever used in a political campaign, enabling energized citizens to turn themselves into activists, long before a single human field staffer arrived to show them how.

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