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Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own — and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?
Sugata Mitra’s “Hole in the Wall” experiments have shown that, in the absence [...]

Scientists have established that there are definitely anatomical differences between male and female brains. Are these differences caused by male/female behavior or do these differences cause the male/female behavior?
Using sophisticated MRI scanning, Peg Nopoulos, Jessica Wood and colleagues at the University of Iowa have been trying to shed light on the nature vs. nurture conundrum.
Females [...]

When starting a small business, your first steps should be researching your target market, developing a marketing plan, and testing offers. In other words, taking action to turn your business idea into a real business by making sure you can sell your products at a profit.

Unfortunately, many first-time entrepreneurs let their anxiety about such things [...]

Setting up an e-newsletter or blog starts with a subject you love, a simple website, and some useful content. But unless you want your newsletter to be nothing but a hobby, you’ll want to find ways to generate income from it.

You can create your own information products – e-books, special reports, teleseminars, and more – [...]

Do you remember the original TV series of Kung Fu starring David Carradine? Here’s a quote from the original pilot, courtesy of from Master Kan, teacher of Carridine’s character, Kwai Chang Caine : “From the crane we learn grace and self-control. The snake teaches us suppleness and rhythmic endurance. The praying mantis teaches us speed [...]

Its no secret that one of my favorite marketing techniques is submitting articles to e-zine directories. E-zine viral marketing is a strategy that will provide your online business with an endless stream of targeted traffic for years to come. Have you ever done a search and found a result that was from an e-zine article? [...]

When it comes to social bookmarking, the entire idea is to get your pages bookmarked as many times as possible. This benefits you with potential short-term traffic spikes and long-term repeat traffic if done right. So the question is, what exactly can you do in order to get your pages bookmarked as much as possible?
There [...]

When you think of quick paid surveys, you instantly think about the very low payments they offer. If this is what you’re always thinking about them, then you haven’t been looking for survey sites the right way, because there are quite a few places out there that pay much more cash than the average website. [...]