Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face | Anne Madden

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Behold the microscopic jungle in and around you: tiny organisms living on your cheeks, under your sofa and in the soil in your backyard. We have an adversarial relationship with these microbes -- we sanitize, exterminate and disinfect them -- but according to microbiologist Anne Madden, they're sources of new technologies and medicines waiting to be discovered. These microscopic alchemists aren't gross, Madden says -- they're the future.

You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse | David Baron

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On August 21, 2017, the moon's shadow will race from Oregon to South Carolina in what some consider to be the most awe-inspiring spectacle in all of nature: a total solar eclipse. Umbraphile David Baron chases these rare events across the globe, and in this ode to the bliss of seeing the solar corona, he explains why you owe it to yourself to witness one, too.

B2C Marketing: How Skyjet developed an app to increase leads through cost transparency

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This year at MarketingSherpa Summit, we interviewed Jonathan Levey, Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Flexjet, about the company's journey developing an app for its Skyjet brand that both aligned with business strategy and exceeded customer needs.

Let's end ageism | Ashton Applewhite

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It's not the passage of time that makes it so hard to get older. It's ageism, a prejudice that pits us against our future selves -- and each other. Ashton Applewhite urges us to dismantle the dread and mobilize against the last socially acceptable prejudice. "Aging is not a problem to be fixed or a disease to be cured," she says. "It is a natural, powerful, lifelong process that unites us all."

Is Time Your Enemy or Your Best Friend?

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Is Time Your Enemy or Your Best Friend? 
By Richard Libin, President, Automotive Profit Builders
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Time is one of the biggest complaints that customers have about purchasing a new vehicle. Spending too much time purchasing a vehicle has been one of the loudest and more persistent complaints within the industry. And, in some cases, time becomes more important than virtually any other process of the purchasing decision. 

How your brain decides what is beautiful | Anjan Chatterjee

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Anjan Chatterjee uses tools from evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study one of nature's most captivating concepts: beauty. Learn more about the science behind why certain configurations of line, color and form excite us in this fascinating, deep look inside your brain.

Learning From Negotiation Role-Plays

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It’s a familiar practice in negotiation training: Students are divided up and assigned to engage in role-play exercises known as simulations. Each person reads confidential information about her role, the two (or more) players get together and negotiate, and then the class reconvenes to debrief the experiences.
Simulation took root as a common method for teaching
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Why Is Sincerity Important? How to Avoid Deception in Negotiation

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Why is sincerity important at the bargaining table and how do negotiators avoid deception in negotiations? Your counterpart may not realize that her behavior is unethical, and even when she does, she may justify her behavior as being ethical in this particular case.
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