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Economist Justin Wolfers runs a controlled experiment to test how Twitter is affecting his productivity I don’t normally hold with the traditional New Year’s resolution of quitting some objectionab…

On last week’s This American Life podcast, chef Dan Barber shared the story of Eduardo Sousa, who is producing foie gras in Spain by natural means (i.e. not through force-feeding). Barber also gave a talk about this at Taste3 a few years ago.

Listen to the playlist titled Best of 2011: Top Remixes on Indie Shuffle, the human-powered music blog. New songs added daily!

According to the online Wall Street Journal, this new Hitchens piece,"Forced merriment: the true spirit of Christmas," was commissioned by the paper but never published. I have no idea when it was written, but I suspect it was December of 2010, for it refers obliquely to his illness. It's predictably Scrooge-ish, but also funny, and ends…

The social media tool is being taken up as an actual measure of value and influence. And we should be wary

Asked Enzo, my son the other day. It got me thinking… For example, I remember a time when I used to write a blog. Then came along Twitter, Posterous, Pinterest and I was swayed, attracted by …

“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Last week, the Nigerian senate [...]More...

Rules and requirements on filing annual accounts at Companies House for companies registered in the UK.

Mukti Jain Campion finds out why so many multinationals recruit students from India.

Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company

Collapsus is a new experience in cross-media storytelling that combines interactivity with animation, fiction and documentary. Collapsus looks into the near future and shows you how the imminent energy transition affects a group of ten young people, who appear to be caught up in an energy conspiracy. What will their world look like after the turbulent transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources? Directed by: Tommy Pallotta (producer of the award-winning film Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr.)

We've talked about moving your cache files to a RAM disk to speed things up, but it turns out Firefox has this feature built in. Here's how to turn