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NewsBlotter - WebWorkerDaily - Web workers are a busy group, and it can be too easy to get buried in our work while rarely surfacing to keep up with the latest news, trends and other information that we should be learning. While I love my RSS reader and check ... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-08]

NewsBlotter - Discovery Channel - Some beers contain high amounts of silicon, a nutrient that helps strengthen bones, research finds. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-08]

High blood pressure appears to predict the progression to dementia in older adults with impaired executive functions (ability to organize thoughts and make decisions) but not in those with memory dysfunction, according to a report in the February issue of Arch... [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Cerebral palsy (CP) has increased in infants born prematurely in the United States, according to data presented by researchers from Loyola University Health System (LUHS). These findings were reported at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Feta... [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

A new tool may help standardize the use of computed tomography (CT scans) in children with minor head injury and help reduce the number of scans, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched at 10:14:08 CET today and is heading for the International Space Station carrying two sophisticated European modules: Node-3 (Tranquility) and Cupola. Their installation will mark the completion of the non-Russian part of t... [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble said Monday that its new electronic book reader, the Nook, will be available in US stores this week. [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Advanced maternal age is linked to a significantly elevated risk of having a child with autism, regardless of the father's age, according to an exhaustive study of all births in California during the 1990s by UC Davis Health System researchers. Advanced patern... [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Fewer than 50 wild tigers remain in China, a conservation group said Monday, voicing hope that the Year of the Tiger would not be the last for the endangered cats. [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Being aware of common pitfalls [Source: WSJ.com: Laid Off And Looking / 02-08]

NewsBlotter - NASA Image of the Day - Space shuttle Endeavour lights up the night sky as it lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The primary payload for the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station is the Tranquili... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-08]

Women with gout are at greater risk of a heart attack than men with the disease, indicates research published ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today announced that 200 million candidates have applied to jobs via corporate career sites powered by Taleo's online recruitment solutions. In fact, nearly 30% of... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 02-08]

Oracle's $1M grant to Susan G Kome for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists. [Source: Oracle Blogs / 02-08]

Consuming two or more soft drinks per week increased the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by nearly twofold compared to individuals who did not consume soft drinks, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the Ame... [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

A new national study suggests that preschool-aged children are likely to have a lower risk for obesity if they regularly engage in one or more of three specific household routines: eating dinner as a family, getting adequate sleep and limiting their weekday te... [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

China has found another 170 tons of tainted milk powder in an emergency crackdown that has made it increasingly clear many products discovered in the country's 2008 milk scandal were repackaged for sale instead of destroyed. [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Endeavour and six astronauts rocketed into orbit Monday on what's expected to be the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program, hauling a new room and observation deck for the International Space Station. [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

A new analysis has found that women with medium or low levels of income are particularly susceptible to anxiety and depression after being diagnosed with the precancerous breast condition, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Published early online in Cancer, a p... [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

Workers exposed to tricholorethylene (TCE), a chemical once widely used to clean metal such as auto parts, may be at a significantly higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Acade... [Source: physorg.com / 02-08]

When reconnaissance pilots brought back precious surveillance photos during World War II (WWII) they could not have imagined that they would one day be comparable with the cityscape seen from satellite 50 years into the future, and available around the world a... [Source: gizmag / 02-08]

While the themes in this year's Super Bowl ads ran the gamut from poking fun of emasculated males to take-offs on popular TV shows, experts agreed that a simple appeal to motherly love seemed to speak strongest to viewers. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 02-08]

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YouTube delivered on its promise to upload all the Super Bowl Ads as soon as they aired today, with users voting to choose which one will adorn the YouTube front page on Thursday. The tech and web ads were a mixed bunch: both the established GoDaddy Too Hot fo... [Source: Mashable! / 02-08]

NewsBlotter - Dictionary.com Word of the Day - approbation: formal or official approval; also, praise. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-08]

NewsBlotter - Search Engine Watch - Specific tips for optimizing videos, images, local search, news, shopping, or other rich content. ... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-08]

CBS premiered a new TV series called "Undercover Boss" in which top brass of big companies disguise themselves as average-Joe workers in their own firms. [Source: WSJ.com: The Juggle / 02-08]

Whether you're working or wasting time, you spend a lot of time on the web every day. You've already ditched Internet Explorer and switched to Firefox or Chrome ; in fact, Net Applications' browser marketshare stats show Chrome inched past Safari for the first... [Source: FastCompany / 02-07]

Podcasts offer a fantastic way to catch up news, listen to radio shows, and get great media delivered right to your computer (they're like newsreaders for media). Check out these five popular podcast managers and let the entertainment come to you. Last week we... [Source: Lifehacker / 02-07]

Leaders of Accenture, Cantor Fitzgerald, Infosys are hiring today. [Source: Forbes - Business / 02-07]

Financial blog, ChristianPF.com released an article discussing some of the legitimate opportunities to work-from-home. With the effects of the recession still lingering, many people are still facing unemployment or are underemployed. Many of the opportunities ... [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 02-07]

A survey by online retailer Retrevo finds that 61 percent of people aren't interested in owning an iPad. It also suggests that the hype around the product has actually made things worse. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-07]

Toyota Motor notified dealers it is prepared to unveil a solution to problems with the brake system of the popular Prius hybrid sedan, as well as a public relations campaign to try to repair its battered image. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 02-07]

It's no wonder unemployed workers are getting discouraged: It's never taken longer to find a new job. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 02-07]

12% of those watching the Super Bowl last year also kept one eye on the web, according to analytics firm Nielsen. The average time spent online was 24 minutes. What's most remarkable about the stats is that most people aren't visiting sports sites during the ... [Source: Mashable! / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Project Management Essays - Opinion Leaders are the ones that influence co-workers. They rally people, or divide them. They're found among the staff, not along lines of management. Their skeptical view of management is what makes staff listen... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

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TechNewsSource - SANS - Tip of the Day [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Better Projects - The video below has a running time of 26 minutes and is incredibly fascinating. I can normally watch about 2-3 minutes of a video before boredom sets in, yet this one hooked me and held me all the way through. One of my bigge... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - I had a really interesting inquiry from a client today.  This client had recently selected a new e-recruitment solution including onboarding.  The Recruiting organization owned the new solution, but the client wondered w... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-07]

The thin air may speed up metabolism and drive up levels of a hormone that plays a role in appetite. [Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog / 02-07]

Oh, so that's the answer to the jobs problem! Employment firm Adecco's North American CEO Tig Gilliam writes at CNBC's CEO Blog this morning that the six-month rise in temporary jobs, reflected in today's January employment report from the U.S. Department of L... [Source: BARRONS.com: Stocks To Watch Today / 02-07]

Sree Sreenivasan is a professor and Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia Journalism School and contributing editor at DNAinfo.com .Ask a journalist about the state of the media and the answer you get may range from dire predictions about‚  journalism's imminen... [Source: Mashable! / 02-07]

A year ago we launched the ReadWriteWeb Guide on Community Management with the knowledge that Community Manager would become an increasingly popular job title. Since then, the requirements of keeping your customers engaged have become more demanding. According... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Daniel Pink - According to an operational study of National Football League teams prepared for The Wall Street Journal by Boston Consulting Group, the typical NFL season requires 514,000 hours of labor per team . That's about eight times the eff... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Dictionary.com Word of the Day - ignoramus: an ignorant person; a dunce. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - NASA Image of the Day - The space shuttle Endeavour is seen after the rotating service structure is rolled back on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010 at Launch Pad 39A of the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Endeavour and the crew member... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - If you swallow these plants, you could wind up with stomach convulsions, blurred vision, amnesia -- you could even die. What shouldn't you taste on your next hike? [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Dictionary.com Word of the Day - eschew: to shun; to avoid. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - ManageSmarter.com - WebmasterRadio.FM, a B2B online radio network, is debuting a new program entitled AFFILIATE WIRE. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Woods Hole Oceanographic - Seawater's lower pH will affect food supplies, pocketbooks, and lifestyles. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - You have a big expense coming up. You need a better car, or a bigger home, or you want to go back to college. What do you do? Borrow, borrow, borrow -- right? Well, maybe not. Working off of a budget just may save your sanity ... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - Famous hotel pools can be impressive, they pale in comparison to some of the world's most expensive pools, which can cost millions or even billions of dollars to build. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Harvard Business Blogs - Who's the better quarterback, Drew Brees or Peyton Manning ? Perhaps a more compelling question for you, the developing leader, is this: How did these guys - and all the great performers you might admire - get to be so g... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Discovery Channel - Women with high levels of flame retardants in their blood took longer to become pregnant, and children scored lower on development tests. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Harvard Business Blogs - It has been fascinating to watch the unfolding competition around tablet-style devices such as the Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and, of course, now the iPad. Pundits of all kinds have been quick to question whether the ... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Harvard Business Blogs - Companies say they treat men and women equally - but in reality, they don't. Our recent gender-parity survey of more than 1,800 business people worldwide, conducted in association with HBR.org, shows that in fact, employ... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Forbes Woman - All year long the sports landscape is dominated by men. But for a brief while every two years, female athletes are also champions. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - Scientific American - Methane trapped in Arctic ice (and elsewhere) could be rapidly released into the atmosphere as a result of global warming in a possible doomsday scenario for climate change, some scientists worry. After all, methane is 72 ... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - Snowboarding is one of the fastest growing sports. Where can you find the best spots to set down your board and work on your tricks? [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 02-07]

Anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in icy Antarctic waters in the second major clash this year in increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

US book publishers are smiling again, after years of watching digital versions of their titles sell for below what they thought they were worth. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

After a weeklong absence, new copies of Andrew Young's The Politician, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and other books published by Macmillan are available for purchase on Amazon.com. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Microsoft said Friday that Bing will power Internet searches for Facebook's 400 million members in an arrangement that returns control of display advertising to the social-networking service. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

America's wind energy industry enjoyed a banner year in 2009, thanks largely to tax credits and other incentives packed into the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Google Earth mapping service is letting people use the Internet to dive into the world's oceans or see the ruin that World War II bombings rained on European cities. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won't go so far as to say that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Rice professors say publicly traded companies can expect increase in stock sales after big ad buys. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Learning how to walk again after long-duration space flights is a problem astronauts face as they readjust to Earth's gravity. To learn how microgravity affects human space travelers, NASA scientists studied the nanomechanics of hair cells in the inner ear. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

A Monash University-led nationwide study into the health beliefs and behaviours of obese people has found that the more severely obese a person is, the less likely they feel they can reduce their weight. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

The complex chain of metabolic events in bacteria that lead to fatal diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) may be better understood using mathematical models, according to an article published in the February issue of Microbiology Today. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Instead of flowers or chocolate, how about a holiday themed digital gadget for the upcoming Valentine's Day? [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Monash University biochemists have found a critical piece in the evolutionary puzzle that explains how life on Earth evolved millions of centuries ago. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Parts of a car's bodywork could one day double up as its battery, according to the scientists behind a new ‚€3.4 million project announced today. [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

The notion that scientists understand how changes in Earth's orbit affect climate well enough for estimating long-term natural climate trends that underlie any anthropogenic climate change is challenged by findings published this week. The new research was con... [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

The Greek philosopher Aristotle once said there is no great genius without a mixture of madness, and now there is some scientific evidence that there is a link between mania and high IQ and creativity, since a study of over 700,000 subjects showed those who sc... [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Brad Garlinghouse, AOL Inc.'s executive overseeing operations in Silicon Valley, inhabits a windowless office at a former Netscape data center. But Garlinghouse's sparse surroundings -- the University of Kansas graduate has decorated with little more than a fr... [Source: physorg.com / 02-07]

Could Apple's future as a multichannel video distributor lie not with AppleTV, but with the iPad? Might the best of TV iTunes subscription offering that the company has been pitching to TV networks since last November be primarily intended for that device and ... [Source: Digital Daily / 02-07]

Staying open to new positions [Source: WSJ.com: Laid Off And Looking / 02-07]

CERN is set to run its giant particle collider for 18 to 24 months at a modest power level as it continues to check out the machinery. [Source: CNET News.com / 02-05]

Toyota Motor chief executive Akio Toyoda apologized Friday for the company's recall and quality problems, but did not announce another recall of its popular Prius Hybrid beset by brake problems. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 02-05]

Children who are especially reactive to stress are more vulnerable to adversity and have more behavior and health problems than their peers. But a new longitudinal study suggests that highly reactive children are also more likely to do well when they're raised... [Source: physorg.com / 02-05]

Follow these rules when buying a sports-friendly flat screen TV. [Source: Forbes - Technology / 02-05]

Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told lawmakers Wednesday that Toyota owners should stop driving cars affected by the recall and bring them back to the company. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 02-05]

Job cuts accelerated in January, hitting their highest levels in five months, according a report released this morning. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 02-05]

Defense-Dispatch - PR Newswire: Aerospace/Defense - NASA has released the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show an icy, m... [Source: Defense-Dispatch.com / 02-05]

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TechNewsSource - Project Management Essays - After three or four projects, you learn that there are a few things that must go right for most any project to succeed. These are generally referred to as the Critical Success Factors, or CSFs. Here are a few: Ensur... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-05]

TechNewsSource - Aberdeen Research - 2010 promises to be a year of recovery and rebuilding for many organizations. Aberdeen's Economic Outlook 2010 found that 68% of organizations surveyed expect the economy to recover by Q3 2010. However, given the prediction... [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 02-05]

A new study has found the secret to effortless weight loss: spend some time at high altitude. Even a week on a mountain retreat can produce weight loss in sedentary people eating as much as they want and doing no exercise at all. [Source: physorg.com / 02-05]

Wireless Institute of Australia - WIANEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING FEB 07 2010. - This weeks episode is presented by Amateur Radio Victoria and it\'s ALL UP AND COMING IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA FOR WEEK COMMENCING FEB 7 2010. [Source: Planet-Ham.com / 02-05]

One of the astronauts currently in residence on the International Space Station is using Twitpic to send some spectacular imagery of our home planet back down to us Earthlings (that's Mt. Kilimanjaro as seen from space at right). It's the next logical step now... [Source: Mashable! / 02-05]

Facebook is celebrating its 6th birthday in style, with yet another traffic milestone: 400 million users served .Two months ago the social network hit 350 million , and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminds us that number was less than half of today's 400 million mark a... [Source: Mashable! / 02-05]

2010 is the year social media and the Super Bowl are officially converging. Everyone from the advertisers and the NFL to fans and athletes are getting in on the social media Super Bowl action like never before. In fact, we're seeing advertisers play up their c... [Source: Mashable! / 02-05]

A new study published today by Pew Internet finds that teens and young adults are blogging less and using social networking sites more, with the prominent exception of Twitter. Pew's Report surveyed 2,253 American adults and 800 U.S. teens to get a reading of ... [Source: Mashable! / 02-05]

A report by Manpower employer services found that only 29% of companies in the Americas have a formal policy regarding employee use of social networking sites. The number is lower in other regions - 25% in Asia-Pacific and 11% EMEA. The worldwide number is 2... [Source: Mashable! / 02-05]

Siri is one of the most ambitious mobile services we have seen in the last few years. Imagine if you could just talk to you phone and tell it to call you a taxi, reserve a table at your favorite restaurant or tell you what the weather in New York City will be ... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 02-05]

Location sharing social network Foursquare saw traffic to its site triple in the last two months since November, according to new numbers from traffic analyst firm Hitwise today . The service has seen unprecedented media coverage lately and is no doubt sendin... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 02-05]

As more of the business world flattens with the expansion of online services, social networking is increasingly becoming a critical factor to success in many industries. Whether you're for a small businesses selling art at a craft fair or a Fortune 500 company... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 02-05]