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A new study on longevity reveals that (shocker) slacking off and not caring about anything will probably make you die faster.
“What characterized the people who thrived is a combination of their own persistence and dependability and the help of other people,” Friedman says. The young adults who were thrifty, persistent, detail-oriented and responsible lived the longest.
Time to work on that financial plan you’ve been putting off, no?
Ouch. According to a new study, college students are spending four (or more) years and thousands of dollars on higher education, but they’re not actually learning anything.
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Here’s the short story:
Students are slacking off, colleges are more focused on enrolling and keeping new students than they are on making sure each student gets a quality education, and professors are having trouble keeping up with their increasingly large class sizes as more and more people attend college.
Here are the fun facts:
Read the whole story here.
Andrew Ross Sorkin did the homework none of us wanted to do, and came up with an estimate of how much an evening in Davos will cost if you’re lucky enough to be invited to the WEF this year.
Some highlights:
And still: “You always feel like you are in the wrong place in Davos, like there is some better meeting going on somewhere in one of the hotels that you really ought to be at. Like the real Davos is happening in secret somewhere.“
So, just wondering… what do you do if you can’t afford any of that?
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Heard of a little app called Bubble Ball? Well, if you’re Robert Nay, you created it. Between gym class and dinner.
4,000 lines of code and 4 million downloads later, Bubble Ball has become the #1 free app on the iTunes store. Since the app is free, 14-year-old Mr. Nay is still just a relatively normal (if hyperintelligent) kid.
Way to go, dude!
Scary stuff. Really makes you appreciate the accounting profession, right?
Have you ever filed your own taxes? How long did it take you?
We wonder if “maths” includes personal finance?
Daily chart: which country has the cleverest kids? Since 2000 the OECD has tested school pupils in rich countries every three years on reading, mathematics and science. This year, students in Shanghai topped the chart in each discipline.
This is probably not what he was going for when he commissioned all these pictures and sculptures of himself.
The Hungarian government is auctioning off a bunch of Lenin memorabilia to help pay for cleanup of the massive wave of toxic waste that flooded Budapest this October.
Some bourgeois bidders are just picking up kitschy decoration for their homes, but others appear to be having a little Communist-bloc nostalgia.
“When I was young, I didn’t really look deeply into the faults of the system,” says Mr. Torok, a real-estate entrepreneur who says that his business is struggling amid the economic downturn. “I lived a calm, secure life where bread cost 3.5 forints and everyone had a job.”
Hmm.
The AP reports that hundreds of Bernard Madoff’s personal items are going up for auction at the Sheraton New York Hotel, courtesy of the U.S. Marshals Service. Madoff is just beginning his 150-year prison sentence for ripping off investors in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever.
Snatch up those limited-edition monogrammed velveteen slippers before they’re gone! Also available: a 10.5 carat diamond ring owned by Bernie’s wife, Ruth, and a “like-new” Steinway piano. (Thanks, msnbc.com)
The Internet has turned many news outlets into frenzies of über-competitive racing to break even the smallest tidbits of news, and many young journalists can’t handle the pressure.
“At a paper, your only real stress point is in the evening when you’re actually sitting there on deadline, trying to file. Now at any point in the day starting at 5 in the morning, there can be that same level of intensity and pressure to get something out.” – Jim VandeHei, Politico’s Executive Editor