I recently started following a blog from a 19-yr old Entrepreneur, Ben Casnocha. A recent post struck me as quite insightful. Ben outlines 8 things that you need to teach your kids that they most likely are not learning in high school. These are things that not only help them in higher education, but also…
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A study coming from Oxford University is proposing a 17.5% “Fat Tax” to curb demand for sugary and unhealthy foods. The researchers claim that such a steep tax would reduce demand for these products and in turn save lives… an estimated 3200 lives a year. In addition, those who do ignore the tax will be…
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A recent study from the Journal of Consumer Research and highlighted by ars technica indicates that most consumers are a little duped when it comes to judging the superiority of consumer products. Too often the average consumer is loyal to a product simply because of familiarity. That’s not all that bad, but they mistake that…
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RamblingEngineer.com is now iPhone enabled! What does that mean? Well, that means when I visit the site on my new iPhone (yes, I gave in to the Apple seduction), the site appears in a nice iPhone friendly style. No sidebar or bulky navigation. A simple and clean interface. But that doesn’t mean that the rest…
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It’s been a while since I last blogged. But I haven’t forgotten about it. I have no fewer than 7 blogs article queued up. I just haven’t had time to completely flush out each of the entries. I’ve been busy at work with a high priority project as well as some family issues. I’m still…
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