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Boris Groysberg's Research on Star Employees: Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth - Bob Sutton
Boris and his colleagues found a curvilinear relationship between the number of stars in a group and overall performance — so, having a few stars help, have a few more doesn't hurt (but doesn't help), but groups reach a tipping point [...]

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Chile earthquake may have shortened days - Space.com- msnbc.com
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 microseconds
(tags: science earthquake msnbc time )

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Are Strip Clubs the Reason Bad Mainstream Rock is a Chart Staple? An Interview With Stripper Tweets - New York Music - Sound of the City
"Shinedown make me long for the songcraft of Our Lady Peace or Matchbox 20… It's funny that there's this sort of anachronistic aesthetic that belongs to both the rock charts [...]

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Infinity Ward bosses suing Activision News | Eurogamer
"Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual 'investigation' into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of 'insubordination' and 'breach of fiduciary duty,' which then [...]

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London Sperm Bank brand designed by Silk Pearce - News - THE DRUM - Advertising, Design, Media, Marketing, Digital, PR - News, Information & Jobs
"London Sperm Bank (LSB) has launched a standalone brand, created by Silk Pearce, designed to recruit more male donors." - a curious area of supply and demand, which i think this [...]

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TheDieline.com: Package Design: Pantone Make Up Concepts
Two concepts by Renata Viega, a São Paulo, Brazil based designer. These would be a natural brand extention for Pantone, Nail Polish and Eye Shadow
(tags: packaging colour color pantone makeup brand design thedieline )

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Like, Python | Staring Is Polite
Like, Python uses Python's own tokenizer to essentially add keywords to Python's lexical understanding. Python is a subset of Like, Python, so any script you've already written in Python is valid Like, Python and will run in the interpreter. But you can also write like you'd speak.
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D Nye Everything: Dante's Inferno
Partner: You know, I can't believe Death went down so easy.
Me: I can't believe they missed the chance to have the heart of Italian poetry say "Where is thy sting now, asshole?"
Partner: That's an Austrian accent.
(tags: games dannyegriffiths dantesinferno literature )

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Your Looks and Your Inbox « OkTrends
Someone [who is rated as highly attractive] above gets nearly 5 times as many messages as a typical woman and 28 times as many messages as a woman at the low end of our curve. Site-wide, two-thirds of male messages go to the best-looking third of women. So basically, [...]

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Great Lake, a Chicago Pizza Shop, Enjoys Being Small - Question - NYTimes.com
"We never intended to serve mass quantities and have our product available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We wanted to start a business so we could get some control in our lives."
(tags: marketing pr nytimes food [...]

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