- Wage Theft: A Problem Bigger Than Plain Robbery
According to a news report, in 2012 US authorities recovered $933 million from employers, whom they termed as perpetrators of wage theft. Compare this amount to the $341 million the authorities value all the property tak…
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- Eight Times India Came In Fourth In The Olympics
Here are the eight examples of Indian sportspersons coming in fourth and missing out of a bronze medal in the Olympic games:
Dipa Karmakar at the 2016 Olympics in Rio (Gymnastics)
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna at t…
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- Kedia in Jamui (Bihar) Gets a Solar-powered Cold storage (But More Information Would Have Been Useful)
So, Greepeace and a private company got together to crowdfund a solar-powered micro cold storage facility in Kedia in Jamui district in BIhar. This inspiring piece of news would be more useful if we had more information …
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- What next for Huffington Post? (First, Someone Explain The Economics of Mass Rewriting of News)
Having started in 2005 as a sort-of platform for Arinana Hiffington's celebrity pals to write online (before the age of Instagram and Twitter), the Huffington Post is in post-Ariana phase now, who has left to work at an…
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- Comedy Central Cancels âEUR~The Nightly Show with Larry WilmoreâEUR(TM) For Not Being Funny and Popular Enough
A News opinion/comedy show getting cancelled in one of America's most polarising election season of all time. That tells you everything. To the core 18-34 year audience, maybe Wilmore with his one-note 'every one is a ra…
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- Peter Thiel Is No Privacy Or Gay Rights Hero (Just A Dangerous, Self Important Billionarie)
So it has come to pass that a billionaire didn't like the coverage he was getting and took his personal vendetta against the offending journalists (Gawker's Nick Denton, Sam Biddle and others) to its logical end: The sel…
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- Review Roundup For No Man's Sky
No Man's Sky is a change for pace for most gamers who like the action-oriented RPGs, following the examples of 'keep exploring' kind of game play as seen in 'Myst' or 'Spore' before.
Videogamer says:
No Man’s Sk…
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- Angry Letter To DC Movies Asks What We All Want To Ask: What's So Special About Zack Snyder?
This now very popular letter once again points to a sitiation when a movie studio has fallen into a rut, and given too much power to a filmamker who keeps making the same kind of 'dark', 'important' films, turning into a…
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- Basicversity: A Great site to Practicing & Testing Your Basic Knowledge of Anything
This is an update from Pramit Singh at MediaVidea about a great newmediavidea.blogspot.com/2013/04/basicversitycom-test-your-basic.html online education site he just launched, Basicversity.com, which currently claims to…
Topic: Internet and Websites | Read more
- The 25 Most Important Business & Career Skills All Smart People Should Know
1. Business Management: Basically, the art of getting people to do things
2. Marketing: Because the purpose of a business is to find a customer, thus, marketing
3. Selling: Knowing how to sell things to peopl…
Topic: Books and Literature, Remarkable, Careerskills, Education, Businessskills | Read more
- Take the ultimate E-learning Knowledge Challenge
Check your knowledge about e-learning with this 32-questions E-learning Quiz. This test shall test your understanding of core e-learning concepts as well as e-learning design tips and tricks. I suggest you take this quiz…
Topic: Elearning, Quiz, Test, Instructionaldesign | Read more
- What to do when "follow your passions" doesn't work for you?
"Follow your passion" is a cliche now. Everone thinks it is is the fashionable thing to say. In reality, it is often a lazy thing to say. I agree that we should follow what our heart tells us, but a little thinking never…
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- What is the best kind of self help advice?
The best kind of self-help advice gets us to do things. Positive things. Life-affirming things. The best tkind of self-help advice encourages us - simple words that motivates us to forge ahead in this 'dying life.'
In…
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- 5 most overrated things in Entertainment today
No, this isn't yet another post about how bad Hollywood and its exports are, or the media-industrial complex seeping through every core of humanity. This is about what no one is asking about the supposedly hot things of …
Topic: Film, Tv | Read more
- Be remarkable # 140: Overcome social anxiety
Here are 10 good ways to overcome social anxiety. No need to lose any sleep or to take drastic measures such as alcohol or drugs to deal with social anxiety. Instead, you might try looking at these options suggested by t…
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- Be remarkable #139: Be trustworthy
Here are 3 good ways to build trust:
1. Charlie Green's formula: T = ( C + R + I ) / SO
Where:
T = Trust
C = Perception of Credibility (telling the truth)
R = Perception of Reliability (meet your commitments -…
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- How Symantec and Mcafee falsely scared the world in wasting money on their useless security software
Using dubious sources, which they might bought off in the first place, and fantasy fiction posing as White paper, Mcafee managed to convince ignorant world leaders and lazy reporters that Cybercrime costs $1 Trillion (Th…
Topic: Science and Technology Buyers Guide, Scam | Read more
- How Reddit can be an alternative to college
This is the idea of the week: Reddit as an alternative to college. Lots of like-minded, better-read-than-average people doing a dazzling mix of internet activity, combining the best best and worst of learning with typica…
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- How social media is destroying useful criticism: Everyone is being nice and dishonest
In this age of Facebook friends and Twitter followers, and where everyone is trying to build her/his Tribe (or 1000 fans) , everybody is playing nice - everybody is playing to please one's echo chamber - no one likes the…
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- Buckminster Fuller: Not everyone has to earn a living
Now, we know we have been conditioned to buy things, keep up with the proverbial Joneses, and the Govt-big business combine has made healthcare and education expensive. So, Buckminster's opnion that not everyone has to …
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