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Jessica Hullinger

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Covers:  social media, facebook, business, twitter, iphone, innovation, startups, apple, google, technology, brands, bitcoin, gadgets, apps, kickstarter, crowdfunding, office culture
Doesn't Cover: publishing, advertising, promotions, new hires
Science and climate journalist. Editor. Podcaster. I write the @heatmap_news morning newsletter, and other stuff. bsky.app/profile/jesshullinger.bsky.so

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The Startup Institute Wants To Train You To Work And Thrive At A Startup

The Startup Institute Wants To Train You To Work And Thrive At A Startup

Fast Company — They call them corporate refugees. Well-established lawyers, accountants, and marketers, unsatisfied in a world of hierarchy and cubicles, are fleeing their jobs and looking to the startup world to fulfill their creative ambitions.

Michael Bay's Onstage Meltdown And How He Could Have Prevented It

Michael Bay's Onstage Meltdown And How He Could Have Prevented It

Fast Company — Whenever anyone asks me why I have anxiety about public speaking, they ultimately pose this question: "What's the worst that could happen?" Now, I finally have something to point them to.

NPR's homepage gets a massive redesign

NPR's homepage gets a massive redesign

Fast Company — The nonprofit media organization made its homepage responsive to any platform (including Google Glass), and with half its readers coming from mobile devices, it's about time.

Why We Can't Use Social Media To Predict Riots

Why We Can't Use Social Media To Predict Riots

Fast Company — At least, not yet.

The NSA Scandal Has Inspired Some Very Creative Works Of Art

The NSA Scandal Has Inspired Some Very Creative Works Of Art

Fast Company — Americans outraged by the NSA's PRISM scandal are expressing themselves through art, and posting their work to the Internet.

#CarlosDanger Just Took Over Anthony Weiner's Campaign

#CarlosDanger Just Took Over Anthony Weiner's Campaign

Fast Company — According to recent polls, NYC voters were convinced this behavior was behind him. But after today, it's unlikely they'll ever believe that again.

7-Year-Old Kid Writes To NASA, And NASA Writes Back

7-Year-Old Kid Writes To NASA, And NASA Writes Back

Fast Company — Dexter Walters may be just a kid, but he knows he wants to go to Mars someday. So he wrote to NASA about his interests, and to his surprise, he got a response.

How We Watch TV Is Changing, And The Emmys Just Recognized That

How We Watch TV Is Changing, And The Emmys Just Recognized That

Fast Company — The Netflix original series House of Cards has scored an Emmy nomination for top drama series, the first time an online TV series has received equal recognition alongside traditional TV programming.

#Unplug: The Complete, Printable Guide

#Unplug: The Complete, Printable Guide

Fast Company — These step-by-step instructions will walk you through the difficult (but rewarding!) process of unplugging, from deciding when to unplug to informing your friends and coworkers that you'll be offline for a while to avoiding the biggest temptations to plug back in.

Hurricane Sandy: Incredible photos and first-hand accounts of the damage

Hurricane Sandy: Incredible photos and first-hand accounts of the damage

The Week Magazine — Residents along the East Coast take to social media to report on the devastation caused by the deadly Frankenstorm

Beyoncé's mega-partnership with Pepsi: What it means for both their brands

Beyoncé's mega-partnership with Pepsi: What it means for both their brands

The Week Magazine — The pop star and the soda pop company are teaming up for a questionable creative campaign worth $50 million

Introducing Vine: Twitter's 6-second video-sharing app

Introducing Vine: Twitter's 6-second video-sharing app

The Week Magazine — The social network introduced Vine, "a mobile service that lets you capture and share short looping videos." And they're not kidding when they say short.

A social media guide to the State of the Union

A social media guide to the State of the Union

The Week Magazine — If you won't be in front of a television - and even if you will be - be sure to follow along via social media. Here's how.

WATCH: The first-ever footage of a thought being formed

WATCH: The first-ever footage of a thought being formed

The Week Magazine — In what is being called a "fundamental leap forward in our understanding of how brains work," Japanese researchers have successfully caught on film a thought being formed in the brain.

India's deadly gang rape: 6 troubling attempts to blame the victim

India's deadly gang rape: 6 troubling attempts to blame the victim

The Week Magazine — Among the unsettling rationales: She should have begged. She shouldn't have been out so late. She should have known better

The ice cubes that know when you're drunk

The ice cubes that know when you're drunk

The Week Magazine — A high-tech way to maintain a healthy buzz and avoid a massive blackout

The cup that changes color when date-rape drugs are present

The cup that changes color when date-rape drugs are present

The Week Magazine — DrinkSavvy is creating drinkware that changes color when date-rape drugs are present, going from clear to red.

13 work resolutions for 2013

13 work resolutions for 2013

New York Post — If you're looking for a promotion, or hoping to find a new job entirely, here are a few helpful resolutions from career experts in the New York City area.

5 signs humans are still evolving

5 signs humans are still evolving

www.mentalfloss.com — Not only are we still evolving, we’re doing so even faster than before. In the last 10,000 years, the pace of our evolution has sped up 100 times, creating more mutations in our genes, and more natural selections from those mutations. Here are some clues that show humans are continuing to evolve.

The gene that makes you smarter

The gene that makes you smarter

www.mentalfloss.com — Scientists have long known that our genetic makeup influences our intelligence. But now, thanks to the largest brain study of its kind, they've pinpointed one gene in particular that may be responsible for our IQ levels. Meet HMGA2. You can call it the "Intelligence Gene" - that's what Paul Thompson, professor of neurology at UCLA and the leader of the massive study, has dubbed it.

11 problems music can solve

11 problems music can solve

www.mentalfloss.com — A new documentary follows recent studies showing how music can improve the memories of dementia patients, and even help them develop new memories. "Music imprints itself on the brain deeper than any other human experience,” says neurologist Oliver Sacks, who appears in the film. “Music evokes emotion, and emotion can bring with it memory.” Here, a look at some other things music has been known to “cure”.