By Christobel Hastings                writing for Broadly   While most Japanese women were subject to rigid social expectations of domesticity, onna-bugeisha women warriors who were known to be to be every bit as strong, capable, and courageous as their male counterparts It was the autumn of 1868, and for the […]

Laura Ma, for CNN  As the new series of “Cosmos” (only available to Fox viewers in the United States) seeks to unveil the wonders of the universe, you might be inspired to seek out these astronomical spectacles for yourself. Thankfully, there’s a ready-made list of places that offer the best chances to spot meteors, see […]

LINDA POON writing for CityLab One 1950s-themed town will have a city hall, a movie theater, and a park to help bring back memories for dementia patients. There’s going to be a new town square in Chula Vista, a suburb near San Diego County, California. But while most cities try to update their town squares to […]

From segwayevents.co.uk   Dean Kamen is an American ‘serial inventor’ and entrepreneur and is probably best known for being the man who invented the Segway (thanks Dean!). The first segway, code-named ‘Ginger’, was launched in December 2001 in New York with the unveiling broadcast live across the US on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’.   Dean […]

By Joseph Gildred  Cloudwards.Net Whether you’re making movies, vlogging your travels or plotting YouTube stardom, video editing software is the stuff that dreams are made of. The advantages of editing software over the snip-and-tape days of linear film editing are legion, but when it comes to choosing among the dozens of tools available, well, Houston, we […]

By Robert Rorke NewYorkPost TV fans were left reeling after last Wednesday’s surprise cancellation of “The Big Bang Theory.” Now comes word that the cast was just as shocked. As reported by Deadline Hollywood, co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre dropped the news on a normal workday, with no advance warning. He began by summoning the cast to his […]

by Kevin Sheridan KevinSheridanllc.com While giving keynote speeches and leadership development workshops, I am often asked how to engage employees who work in the most repetitive or boring jobs. In this post, I want to highlight an awesome individual who provides the most telling answer to that question. The Tarmac Dancer, as he’s come to be known […]

By: Sarah Berger cnbc.com While Silicon Valley might seem like a mecca for young entrepreneurs, the city with the highest percentage of millennial business founders is actually nowhere near there — it’s Louisville, Kentucky, according to a new study from LendingTree. For its study, LendingTree, looked at anonymized data from 35,000 business owners in the 50 largest […]

BY: JOHN DIJULIUS  TheDiJuliusGroup.com Multiple studies have shown that the vast majority of an employee’s workday is unproductive due to distractions. 38% of the time an employee is actually productive for less than three hours of their eight-hour shift. The studies state that distractions at work have effects comparable to an employee losing a night’s sleep […]

By Lauren Salm writing for CareerBuilder Scrolling through your photos from this past weekend and laughing at the debauchery of your Hangover-esque charades? Ranting about your current job or co-workers because you think you’re just among “friends?” Think again. According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 70 percent of employers use social media to screen candidates before […]