"The obvious question was how you blend it in with a venue’s aesthetics,” Adam Johnson, cofounder and CEO of The Juicebox, told Fast Company. “How you make it sexy and not just some piece of shit box that’s plastered with ads and has ports hanging out of the bottom."
"Most recruiters report that at least 50% of job hunters don’t possess the basic qualifications for the jobs they are pursuing."
"To pivot is, essentially, to fail gracefully. While the term has been in the start-up lexicon for decades, it is coming up more often in the current Internet boom, as entrepreneurs find that many investors are willing to keep the money flowing even if a start-up takes a hard left turn."
"In 2011 alone, the Austin, Texas–based chain expanded its proprietary line of value-priced packaged goods; created close to 6,000 jobs; established a foundation to combat childhood obesity; and reinstated its quarterly dividend, which it promptly hiked. Same-store sales have increased for eight consecutive quarters, and the company recently topped the $10 billion sales mark."
"I know this sounds kind of weird, but we have a different relationship,” she said. “We’re not in seventh grade. I trust him in a different way, I suppose."
"In a 2011 telephone survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 30 percent of teenagers who were regularly online had shared a password with a friend, boyfriend or girlfriend. The survey, of 770 teenagers aged 12 to 17, found that girls were almost twice as likely as boys to share. And in more than two dozen interviews, parents, students and counselors said that the practice had become widespread."
"First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you."
"Moreover, millions of these planets may circle two stars, in an arrangement considered so unlikely that until a few months ago it was found only in science fiction, astronomers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope announced in a separate finding published online in Nature Wednesday. “We are starting to see a whole new type of planetary system, which is unlike anything in our own solar system,” said astronomer William Welsh at San Diego State University, who presented the Kepler findings Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas."
"Other friends try to go on long walks every Sunday, or to “forget” their cellphones at home. A series of tests in recent years has shown, Mr. Carr points out, that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects “exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition. Their brains become both calmer and sharper.” More than that, empathy, as well as deep thought, depends (as neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have found) on neural processes that are “inherently slow.” The very ones our high-speed lives have little time for."
"The company is studying BOL-148, an LSD derivative, as a treatment for cluster headaches, sometimes called suicide headaches because they’re so painful that sufferers often kill themselves, said Halpern, Entheogen’s co-founder."
"The new research, largely driven by the psychiatric community, is also testing psychedelics for use against depression, chronic headaches and addiction as current scientists, much like their 1960s predecessors, seek to understand the “consciousness-expanding” effects of the drugs."
"It used to cost millions of dollars to start a software company. Today, for little or no money, entrepreneurs are able to develop and release a “minimum viable product” and test it with real users on the Internet before they have to raise any money from investors."
