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A couple weeks ago, I was outside of my school’s gym waiting for the last student to get picked up after basketball practice (there’s always that one last kid…), when a retired school employee (that I’ve never met) came up to talk to me. After a couple minutes he pointed towards the soccer field and Read More
Have you ever noticed that when you watch a movie involving a car chase, a commercial comes on trying to sell you on an allegedly safe car? Yea, I didn’t notice that either. How about how most OTC sleep aids are a pale blue color? That one also passed me by. When marketing meets psychology, Read More
- via Forbes Unemployment in the U.S. is at its highest since the mid-80s, college graduates are struggling to find jobs in their respective fields, and the so-called ‘American Dream’ is slipping farther out of reach. Yet, there are 3.2 million available jobs in this country in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Read More
- via MSNBC Less than 24 hours after it announced it would charge a $2 “convenience fee” for every one-time online or phone payment customers make, Verizon Wireless reversed course after consumer outrage spilled onto the Web. The decision also came hours after it was made known that the FCC said it would investigate the Read More
- via Forbes While there can be debate about what it means, the unassailable fact is that Latino-owned businesses in the United States are growing at a blistering pace — in fact more than twice the national average. This trend has been sustained for at least the last decade and manifests itself both in the Read More
Advertising is a major part of our lives. When companies make the effort to construct an well thought out campaign it can make you laugh or make you think. But there are some ideas that are good in theory, but just don’t work when executed. Such is the case with a Chinese restaurant in Dubai. Read More
The Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA), otherwise known as the Internet Censorship Law, would give the U.S. government the right to block you from accessing certain sites on the Internet. If this law passes, then the same website censorship method used in China, Iran, and Syria would become a part of our daily lives in Read More
- via The Independent They journeyed from the East to pay homage to the boy king bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. But they would struggle to complete the feat today. Times for wise men have never been tougher. Gold prices are soaring on commodity markets, myrrh crops have been hit by drought – Read More
Recently I decided to try out a new cupcake shop that opened its doors last December, a place called Snazzy Sugar, in River Grove, Illinois. I went with my girlfriend, since she loves cupcakes – especially red velvet with cream cheese frosting – and I was tired of trekking all the way to Molly’s in Read More