I WAS going to go into academics, but then decided to serve the marketing machine by going into public relations. A lot of my travel involves conferences, speaking engagements and, of course, pitching new business and meeting with existing clients. Jason Schlossberg, a partner in the public relations agency Kwittken & Company, in Kyoto, Japan, last year. He still looks forward to...
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Frequent Flier: An Unhappy Meal and an Aborted Business Trip - Frequent Flier
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03
Ravens win Super Bowl XLVII over the 49ers, 34-31
Label: World Ravens 34, 49ers 31 (final)The Baltimore Ravens have defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII.It's the second championship...
Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Wheatley Crater on Venus
Label: TechnologyMagellan radar image of Wheatley crater on Venus. This 72 km diameter crater shows a radar bright ejecta pattern and a generally flat floor with some rough raised areas and faulting. The crater is located in Asteria Regio at 16.6N,267E. Image: NASA/GSFC [high-resolution]Caption: N...
Beyonce brings electricity at Super Bowl halftime
Label: LifestyleLights out? Blame Beyonce‘s electrifying performance.If naysayers still doubted Beyonce‘s singing’s talents — even after her national anthem performance this week at a press conference — the singer proved she is an exceptional performer at the Super Bowl halftime show.Beyonce opened and closed the performance belting songs, and in between she danced hard and heavy — and better than most contemporary...
Phys Ed: Helmets for Ski and Snowboard Safety
Label: HealthPhys EdGretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness.Recently, researchers from the department of sport science at the University of Innsbruck in Austria stood on the slopes at a local ski resort and trained a radar gun on a group of about 500 skiers and snowboarders, each of whom had completed a lengthy personality questionnaire about whether he or she tended to be cautious or a risk taker.The researchers...
Advertising: Super Bowl Commercials Relied on Outdated Ad Tactics
Label: BusinessA mother-in-law joke was the focus of a spot for Century 21. The commercials that CBS broadcast nationally during the game were, by and large, disappointing. They represented a missed opportunity for marketers and agencies to demonstrate that they had at least some understanding of how contemporary consumers think and behave. Alas, the so-called creative minds of Madison Avenue chose once...
The World's Tweets Light Up the Globe in Stunning Live Visualization
Label: Technology It’s simple, but lovely. Web designer Franck Ernewein‘s real-time Twitter visualization, Tweetping, drops a bright pixel at the location of every tweet in the world, starting as soon as you open the page.The result is a constantly changing image that grows to look like a nighttime satellite shot, bright spots swarming over the most developed areas. But Ernewein has packaged it all in a subtly...
World Chefs: Thomson dishes up Washington state from Seattle to Spokane
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (Reuters) – When food writer Jess Thomson moved to Seattle, Washington, she expected to find the adventuresome cooking for which the city is famous. But she admits to being pleasantly surprised by the rich diversity of the rest of the state.The 150 recipes in her book “Dishing Up Washington” attempt to capture the authentic regional flavors of the entire state, from Seattle to Spokane, Yakima...
Iceland, Prosecutor of Bankers, Sees Meager Returns
Label: BusinessIlvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times"Greed is not a crime. But the question is: where does greed lead?" said Olafur Hauksson, a special prosecutor in Reykjavik. REYKJAVIK, Iceland — As chief of police in a tiny fishing town for 11 years, Olafur Hauksson developed what he thought was a basic understanding of the criminal mind. The typical lawbreaker, he said, recalling his many encounters with...
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