Trust Tower
Originally uploaded by patrickschulze. I ran across this commentary by Lou Gelfand in the Star Tribune earlier this week about a recent Home Depot shareholders meeting and was horrified by the description of what occurred at a recent Home Depot shareholders meeting and the subsequent response by the public relations representative:

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American Flag 1
Originally uploaded by Unstoppable. Happy Flag Day!

Today is Flag Day, a national holiday in the United States, and one that I have long celebrated -- probably because it is my birthday.

Most Americans don't celebrate it, or even remember it, but I can hardly ignore it as it is the day I face getting older every year ;-)

However, luckily (or unluckily) for me I can still read more...

Bird Flu Hygiene
Originally uploaded by Augapfel. The Associated Press published an article today about how businesses are preparing for a possible pandemic of avian flu. The article reports some interesting way that different companies are preparing:

• Setting up “clean” locations for employees and their families
• Paying employees to go read more...

Watch this new Diet Coke and Mentos experiment, meant to imitate the fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Sometimes fun and wacky stuff is also intelligent. So, after you watch their expeiment with 101 2-liter Diet Coke bottles and Mentos, listen to their interview on NPR and then learn how the science works.

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