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...Left-brain abilities that used to guarantee jobs have become easy to automate, while right-brain abilities are harder to find - "design, seeing the big picture, connecting the dots," Pink says. He cites cognitive skills and self-direction as the types of things companies look for in job candidates. "People have to be able to do stuff that's hard to outsource," he says. "It used to be for blue collar; it's now for white collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Job Market: Is a College Degree Worth Less? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...HOUBEN, a Belgian man who was mistakenly presumed to be in a coma for 23 years after becoming paralyzed in a car crash. A recent journal article revealed that doctors, using new scanning techniques, discovered in 2006 that Houben, who could not speak, had normal brain function. He now communicates using a special keyboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...cost about $50 billion to upgrade infrastructure needed to produce Iraq's target of 6 million barrels a day by 2017. "Iraq's oil industry is in a dire state," says Samuel Ciszuk, Middle East energy analyst for the consultancy firm IHS Global Insight in London. "Decades of war, brain drain, political instability and underinvestment have all depleted what was there." When foreign oil companies finally start working Iraq's fields, they will face a critical shortage of local engineers, geologists, managers and almost everyone else they need, since previous generations of professionals have left the country. (Read "Why Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pump It Up: The Development of Iraq's Oil Reserves | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...most engrossing of all the data might be the stats released on "how-to" Google searches. America's top-searched tutorial? How to kiss. Awwww. Love was on the brain in general; instructions on how to flirt charted at No. 5. And when those relationships turned sour, Google was again your guide. The 10th highest "how-to" search for 2009? How to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google's Year-End Zeitgeist | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...piece by outgoing “Narthex” John B. Owens ’10 (apparently a narthex is the entrance of a church? What?) describes a “brain uploading place.” I mean, hasn’t everyone always wanted to upload its brain into a robot body and live forever? FlyBy...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some 'Poon-Provided Procrastination | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

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