Health & Fitness

8/08/2016

Google Research is Tapping Outside Talent with a $6 Million

Google Research is Tapping Outside Talent with a $6 Million Grant There are certainly hundreds of talented engineers working at Google research, on the company's own campus; but Google also funds certain research initiatives at colleges around the country - tremendously interesting ones that are of...

Green Tea Weight Loss Programs

Although no one would characterize me as overweight at first glance, I could still stand to lose 5 to 10 pounds. That doesn't seem like much of a challenge, but I've found that sometimes the fewer pounds I want to shed, the harder it is. I know that's counterintuitive, but that has been my personal...

Graduate School: the New Prerequisite for Employment?

Several decades ago, when the United States was still largely based on manufacturing, your high school diploma was your ticket to ride. As long as you graduated high school, you would be able to find work that would support your family. As the country evolved into a service based economy, employers...

Buy Gourmet Popcorn for Yourself or as a Gift

A lot of my friends have kids and even though I don't, I'm somehow always invited to birthday parties, confirmations, graduations, and other similar events. As I'm sure you know, only parents, grandparents, and other close relatives find these occasions endearing, so I either send my regrets for not...

Announcing the Google Store for Google Apps and Extensions

It'll be online and open for business any time now, said the Wall Street Journal a while ago. It's the Google store for business apps. App stores are where all the action is these days. Google already has an online store if you haven't noticed; but they don't sell anything high-tech there; they just...

Google Friends: The Unutilized Traffic Powerhouse for Bloggers

Whenever Google Friend Connect comes up in a discussion, it is always as an exclusively tool for use in websites. What most wrongly assume is that Google Friends are not as important to Bloggers. Fact is, the Google Friends widget is as useful, helpful and functionally suited for blogs. From the outset,...

Chrome: The Google Browser that Outdid Firefox

Even for a fiercely competitive market in computer applications, it is a little over the top, the number of major name browsers slugging it out there for the top spot. There are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari of course; but there is a bitterly fought outside competition as well. If you...