You’ll be exposed to around 6,000 marketing messages today, according to researchers. You’re looking at a few right now. Glance away from your computer and you’ll see another one–a label on a bottle, a logo on a t-shirt, a billboard outside the window.
Isn't the key to effective advertising to show people images that they want or want to be like rather than what they already are? Also, what good is a refrigerator that tracks what brands you buy? You're ALREADY BUYING that brand, so the…
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Summer is here, which means its time to start playing outside as much as possible. Are you tired of all the old summer standby sports, though? Sure, baseball and volleyball are fun, but sometimes you want something just a little, well, weirder. This summer, take a chance on one of these obscure sports.
6. Pesapallo Wife-carrying isnt the only odd summer sport the Finnish people enjoy, though; they also have their own variation of baseball known as pesapallo. The game, which was developed by Lauri Pihkala in the early 20th century, is…
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Genetic analysis sheds light on why some groups adjust better to high altitudes than others.
Many groups have adapted to low oxygen levels at high altitudes by boosting their production of red blood cells, which carry oxygen to the body's tissues. The strategy comes at a cost: All of those cells can thicken the blood and impede its…
Struggling with shrinking revenues and new federal mandates that focus on improving the test scores of the lowest-achieving pupils, Mountain Grove and many other school districts across the country have turned to cutting programs for their most promising students.
Since that survey, released in 2002, the outlook for programs for the gifted has grown harsher. In Michigan, state aid for gifted students fell from more than $4 million a year to $250,000. Illinois, which was spending $19 million a year on…
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The 165 acre park in Virginia was actually built by converting a local abandoned landfill into the pristine recreational area it is today.It looks great and attracts more than 1 million visitors a year .
- Travelling Light - Orchestrating Famine: A Backgrounder on the Food Crisis - Investigating Interference at the EPA - The Failures of Genetically Modified Crops Continue - Food Futures Now - Feeding People and Place,…
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Ever notice how some girls are always hating on other females? Here are some of their techniques…
THE DEVIOUS HATER: This type of girl focuses most of her hating energies on her own friends. Yes, such girls do exist! Girls will be mad if one of their friends is having more luck in the man department than they are, so they start hating! Why? I…
