7 Things Successful People Do During An Afternoon Lull
Do you feel like your ability to focus and your supply of discipline and willpower are always dwindling by 2 p.m.?You're not alone.Almost everyone experiences a mid-afternoon lull: a dip in energy...
View ArticleWe Saw The Biggest Explosion In Health-Care Spending In Over 30 Years, And It...
Spending on health care grew an astounding 9.9% in the Bureau of Economic Analysis' advance estimate of first-quarter GDP. It's the biggest percent change in health-care spending since 1980, when...
View Article'Frozen' Songwriters Deny That Disney Banned The Word 'God' — Here's The Real...
It was widely reported yesterday that Disney bans the word "God" from being used in its animated films and accompanying song lyrics.The initial reports came from an NPR interview with Oscar-winning...
View ArticleHow One Silicon Valley Millionaire Is Using Tech To Spark Change In India
Karl Mehta has made quite a splash in the tech world. He founded PlaySpan, which sold to Visa for more than $200 million in 2011. He was a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow in the program's...
View ArticleBREMMER: Here's Why We're Not On The Precipice Of A New Cold War
Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group tweeted a fascinating chart describing Russia's aggressive moves in Ukraine and the consequent international responses.Concerned about Ukraine...
View ArticleWhy Walking Makes You More Creative
If you want to get your ideas flowing, go for a walk. That's what Stanford University researchers Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz found in a new study published in the Journal of Experimental...
View Article18 Awesome Fast Food Items You Can't Get In The US
Americans are consuming less fast food and causing chains like McDonald's, Burger King and KFC to ramp up their international expansion.Restaurants have had to come up with some pretty creative menu...
View ArticleThe Fed Steps Up This Week After A Mess Of Economic Data — Here's Your...
Last week's weak GDP report, strong spending report, and mixed jobs report have given economists and policymakers plenty to think about.While there isn't much on the economic data calendar, several key...
View ArticleA Women's Activist Group Created Ads Warning Prospective Students About...
Aside from weighing a university's location, size, and cafeteria food, women's activist group UltraViolet wants prospective students to look at sexual violence on campus.The group is launching an...
View ArticleFacebook Put This Man In Charge Of Making Sure Advertisers Don't Ruin...
Instagram began letting companies run ads late last year, despite howls of protest from the photo-sharing app's users.In fact, Instagram and its parent company, Facebook, have been thinking about ways...
View ArticleRadiumOne's Ousted Founder Just Announced He's Starting A New Company
RadiumOne's recently fired founder, Gurbaksh Chahal, just announced his next startup.Chahal's fourth company is still in stealth mode and he has listed it on Facebook, Instagram, and Linkedin with the...
View Article7 Cool Things You Didn't Know You Could Do On Facebook
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Produced by Justin Gmoser. Originally published in February 2014.NOW WATCH: How To Pull A Productive...
View ArticleMeet Trey Gowdy, The Point Man In Boehner's Benghazi Committee
Fulfilling a move that was widely expected, House Speaker John Boehner appointed South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy to lead the select congressional committee tasked with investigating the 2012 terrorist...
View ArticleBen Affleck Had A History Of Winning Big At The Hard Rock Casino Before Being...
Ben Affleck was banned for life from the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas last week after security caught the actor allegedly counting cards while playing blackjack at a high rollers' table.Card counting...
View ArticleSTOCKS RISE: Here's What You Need To Know (MCO, XHB, HUM, WLP, MON)
Stocks climbed. Scoreboard:Dow: 16,533.98, +0.13%S&P 500: 1,884.49, +0.18%NASDAQ: 4,135.87, +0.29%And now the top stories:Today was the first day of the annual Ira Sohn Investing Conference. Among...
View ArticleThe Best- And Worst-Dressed Athletes At The Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is one event where celebrities get the urge to take a huge fashion gamble.The bigger, more colorful, and more outlandish, the better.But not everybody can pull it off. This goes for...
View ArticleFormer Obama Chief Of Staff On Pushing Climate Change Policy: 'You Might As...
On Tuesday, the third National Climate Assessment — a more than 1,000-page status report on climate change and its impacts in the United States — will be released at the White House.The White House is...
View ArticleApple Stock Passes $600 For The First Time Since 2012 (AAPL)
Apple stock closed today at $600.96 per share. That's the first time Apple has been above $600 since October 2012. Its all-time high was $702.10, which was in September 2012.Here's the chart showing...
View ArticlePowerade Just Removed The Controversial Ingredient 'BVO' — But That...
Coca-Cola is removing the controversial ingredient Brominated Vegetable Oil (BVO) from Powerade, Consumerist reports.But if you are getting ready to cheer and gleefully guzzle down some Powerade, you...
View ArticleTwitter's Big Deal With Amazon Is A Step Toward What Could Be A Huge New...
Last week, Twitter's Q1 earnings report sent its stock tumbling to an all-time low, even though the company beat analysts' revenue expectations and reported a nice increase in how frequently Twitter...
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