By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even…
The Internal Revenue Service – An Overview of the I.R.S. The Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) is the agency that collects tax revenue for the United States federal government. Here’s an overview of how the agency…
By Elizabeth Weise “Pink slime” will be off the menu this fall for schools in the National School Lunch Program that don’t want byproducts containing what’s known officially as “lean finely textured beef,” the U.S….
BY JESSE EISINGER Finally, the House passed a jobs bill last week. And what a bill it is! Officially called the Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act, it calls for reopening our capital markets to exciting…
By JULIE BOSMAN After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud…
by Margaret Wheeler Johnson HuffPost Women is at South By Southwest this weekend, and we’re thrilled to be hosting a panel on an issue we wanted to discuss with other women: anxiety about who you…
By STEPHANIE STROM Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit…
Every other year, veteran Orlando police officers must undergo driver retraining. They do it on a course at Orlando International Airport. Sgt. Vince Ogburn describes it.
BY GEOFF DUNCAN Google is unifying Android Market as well as its book, music, and movie services under the moniker Google Play. But is it clearer, or more confusing? Internet giant Google raised eyebrows yesterday…
By Steve Tobak There’s hypocrisy in the corporate world that’s begging to be called out. Everybody thinks they’re a marketing expert. Your boss, the CEO, the IT guy – I bet half the people in your…
What is a DUI? DUI is an acronym that stands for Driving Under the Influence. What does “under the influence” mean? Drugs (whether legal, illegal, prescription or over-the-counter medications) and alcohol are known to affect…
By JULIE BOSMAN and MATT RICHTEL Can you concentrate on Flaubert when Facebook is only a swipe away, or give your true devotion to Mr. Darcy while Twitter beckons? People who read e-books on tablets…
By CATHERINE RAMPELL I have an article today about the states’ long-term divestment from public higher education, and what that means for students. As I’m sure you know, college tuitions have been skyrocketing for decades…
By Robert Ludvig Green energy is taking center stage as 2010 gets underway. The Obama administration is making good on their promises that were made in 2009. There are critics who point out that the…
By JUSTIN GILLIS The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has brought a distinctive approach to problems of global development: a sense of urgency, a willingness to make big investments in pursuit of ambitious targets, and…
By Larry Magid Knowing that Wikipedia would go dark for 24 hours in protest to SOPA and PIPA, I took the precaution of printing it out last night. Just kidding. Wikipedia is huge. I wanted…
By JAY GOLTZ I recently read an article in The New York Times about a program that had been proving for many years what lots of people had long suspected — that SAT scores are…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The number of people seeking unemployment aid was unchanged last week and the four-week average of applications fell to its lowest point in four years, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The…
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Moving the body demands a lot from the brain. Exercise activates countless neurons, which generate, receive and interpret repeated, rapid-fire messages from the nervous system, coordinating muscle contractions, vision, balance, organ function…
By Joshua Topolsky After teasing the story yesterday, Nightline has aired its report from Foxconn’s factories on ABC. In the report, host Bill Weir speaks directly to factory workers as well as their managers. You…
By SHAILA DEWAN Maybe it is time to start calling the glass half full. Employers in the United States added 200,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday, a report that came on the…
By MICHELLE HIGGINS HIGHER hotel prices, airline capacity cuts and rising travel demand mean travelers will have to work harder to find a good deal in 2012. But there are plenty of online tools to…
Achieve financial security over a retirement that could last 20 years or more. By Mark Miller Work in retirement? It might sound like a contradiction in terms, but we’re looking for ways to achieve financial…
By Jeremy Vohwinkle Personal finance covers a wide variety of money topics including budgeting, expenses, debt, saving, retirement and insurance among others. Understanding how each of these topics work together and affect each other is…
REDLINE SPORTS comes to Fort Lauderdale in January 2013 REDLINE SPORTS REDLINE SPORTS Family Entertainment Centers, Fun Centers, Amusement Parks and Children’s Entertainment Centers – the resources you are looking for to design, build, open…
Gravity was discovered 3 centuries ago by a mathematician and physicist named Sir Isaac Newton. He discovered that there is a specific force,which we call gravity, that is required to change the speed or direction…
By QUENTIN HARDY Earlier this week we published an article about Google Apps, and Google’s struggle to displace Microsoft Office and Sharepoint inside large corporations. While Google has worked without a large consulting partner, it…
By BRIAN X. CHEN A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technology Apple is using to speed purchases. A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated…
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP SINGAPORE — Amitabh Bachchan, one of Bollywood’s biggest movie stars, writes a blog and is widely followed on social media. The Big B, as he is affectionately called, started blogging in 2008…
By STUART ELLIOTT THE song “Blues in the Night” includes a line that begins, “From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe.” Now, marketers are studying the results of a campaign that extends from…
By ALLEN SALKIN KALIA is a stripper name, but Kaleya is not, her parents-to-be concluded. No offense to the Kalias of the world, but Lecia and Thor Kaslofsky decided this two years ago, after conducting…
By ERIC PFANNER PARIS — When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When…
By QUENTIN HARDY MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Michael O’Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications, would prefer not to have the employees of the Milwaukee media company use Microsoft’s Office software any more….
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER When you browse Anthropologie’s stores, you feel as if you’re wandering through an artsy home, where there are sure to be closets full of eclectic outfits, bedrooms with bohemian quilts and…
By BRIAN X. CHEN The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late Steve Jobs. Each iPhone model displays…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO — Michael Arrington, whose influentialTechCrunch blog covers Silicon Valley, has started a venture capitalfund to invest in start-ups, including some that he and his staff write about. The $20 million CrunchFund is…
By KIRK JOHNSON GREELEY, Colo. — The idea of making school lunches better and healthier has gathered steam in many parts of the nation in recent years, but not equally for every child. Schools with…
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 8, 2010 When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad and referred to it as a magical device, lots of people snickered. Silly people. Most iPad owners will tell you that it…
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 1, 2010 A few weeks ago, I compiled a list of essential iPhone apps for people who are too busy to sift through the roughly 300,000 titles in the App…
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: November 10, 2010 I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through…
By NICK BILTON The Mac App Store officially opened for business on Thursday, with Apple offering customers a new way to instantly purchase and download software for their Mac computers and laptops. Steven P. Jobs,…
By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN Published: January 15, 2011 Americans were liberated from AT&T last week. The news that Apple was ending its exclusive relationship with AT&T and would begin selling the iPhone 4 on Verizon’s network…
New Online Learning Center and Community Provide Valuable Step-by-Step Education and Resources for Mastering Home Technology NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon has launched its new Room to Learn social media website (http://roomtolearn.verizon.com) to help customers…
Search May Be Harder Than You Think From Robin McClure You’ve made the decision to use child care. So, why is the search for services so difficult? Many a parent has struggled with choices about who,…
Narrow Your Search by Selecting Type of Care First From Robin McClure Desiring quality child care is a given. But determining what type of child care provider who meets your family’s needs, lifestyle, budget, and even…
Finding a child care program that meets the needs of your family may be very important. The following are the four most commonly used types of child care by the general public. Some programs have…
1) Economic Turmoil – It’s not the $700 billion bank bailout. And no, it’s not the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The real economic stimulus is … wait for it ……
By ELIZABETH WEIL Published: September 16, 2010 The most complicated form in print media is the textbook,” Josh Koppel of ScrollMotion explained to me. “You have a 1,000-page math text with 10,000 more pages of…
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 6, 2010 Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all…
