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Company Offers All Employees 15% Raise If They Get Tattoo Of Logo

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — If your company offered you a pay raise to tattoo its logo on your body, would you do it?

A New York City real estate company made the offer and dozens of employees are getting inked.

As CBS 2?s Emily Smith reported Tuesday, a tattoo can be a way to show off your personality. ForRapid Realty employees, it is the fast track to a 15 percent pay raise if you [...]

CLAIM: Firstborns are be more motivated to learn, while secondborns are more motivated to win

Birth Order Could Determine How Successful You Are

New research claims firstborns are be more motivated to learn, while secondborns are more motivated to win, reports Rachel Lowry of Deseret News:

“The study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, examined almost 400 students. It found that birth order can be a lens through which first and secondborns see the world, in ways that impact their motivation and likelihood of career and personal success [...]

Genetic Surveillance

I’m sure the alphabet agencies are all over this

Artist Reconstructs Faces Using DNA Left Behind in NYC and a 3D Printer

Seeing a hair in the crack of a piece of glass, spurred Dewey-Hagborg to think of who its owner might be, what they look like, what their personality is like, etc. With these questions her “Stranger Visions” project was born.

To make her point regarding genetic surveillance, Dewey-Hagborg has been using [...]

What does your sleeping position say about your personality? Worriers curl into a ball while stubborn people lie like logs, claims researcher

More than half of people in the UK curl into the foetal position as they sleep – a sign they are seeking comfort – according to new research
The ‘log’ is the second most common position, adopted by those with rigid personalities, according to the study by a body language expert
‘Yearners’, who sleep with arms outstreched, account for the 25% of the population who are longing to chase their dreams
17% of [...]

‘JEOPARDY!’ Host Alex Trebek Suffers Heart Attack

The iconic game show personality was admitted into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Saturday, and is currently under observation.

Alex Trebek, longtime host of the iconic game show Jeopardy!, was admitted into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Saturday after suffering a “mild heart attack.”

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Read more: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeopardy-alex-trebek-heart-attack-341331

Obama’s Re-Election Campaign – The Thrill Is Gone

The president’s trip to the Bay Area last week made it painfully clear that the Barack Obama re-election campaign has lost its mojo.

There was no life, no personality, no memorable line or moment and no real enthusiasm in the entire fundraising foray. In short, there was no buzz.

It was like a summer rerun of a show that wasn’t very interesting to begin with. Worse yet, Obama sounded like he was [...]

8 Signs That Your Employees Are Awesome

by Jeff Haden

Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers… they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities.

A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear on performance appraisals but nonetheless make a major impact on performance.

Here are eight qualities of remarkable employees:

1. They ignore job descriptions. The smaller the company, the more important it is that employees can [...]

This Study Explains Why People Act Less Intelligent When They’re In A Group

by Aimee Groth

If you have a tendency to clam up when you’re on the spot, there’s now more research explaining why.

There are two key things that affect how we act in a group: our personality and position, psychologist Michael Woodward told the Wall Street Journal, which also reports that “if we think others in a group are smarter, we may become dumber, temporarily losing both our problem-solving ability and what the researchers call [...]

“What’s the MOST IMPORTANT area where you could decommoditize yourself — in other words, make yourself stand out — but haven’t? Be specific.”

Networking, I think, is the most important. Most of the interviews I’ve gotten in my current career have come through connections of varying degrees of strength. But I’ve historically had a strong aversion to putting myself out there, actively getting to know people. Partly this is due to my personality — I like being the one sought, not the seeker. But mostly it’s due to my ineptitude in approaching effectively. [...]

Steve Jobs To Obama: You’re A One-Term President

Image: Stanford

Steve Jobs told President Obama he probably would not be re-elected, Walter Isaacson wrote in Jobs’ soon-to-be-released biography.

That’s because regulations and unions in the United States were crippling its ability to remain competitive with emerging powerhouses like China.

The biography was picked up by the Huffington Post, which published excerpts earlier today.

Jobs met with Obama in fall 2010 and said it was too difficult to build a factory in the U.S., which [...]

Study: Marriages More Satisfying When Wives are Thinner Than Husbands

Marriages are more satisfying for both partners when wives are thinner than their husbands, according to a new study.

The four-year study of 169 newlywed couples found that husbands were more satisfied initially and wives were more satisfied over time when the fairer sex had a lower body mass index — a common measure of body fat. The study was published in the July issue of Social Psychological and [...]

Muslim woman accuses AIR FRANCE of discrimination

A Virginia woman accused Air France of getting her terminated from the job she held briefly at Dulles International Airport because of her religion.

“The hijab, to me, it’s empowerment,” 19-year-old Riham Osman said. “When people, men and women, talk to me, they’re looking at my personality, they’re listening to what I’m saying, they know that I stand for something.”

Osman is a proud Muslim [...]

WSJ: Top Huckabee aide says gov to give 2012 WH campaign a pass

From WSJ:

Mr. Huckabee has told followers to tune in to his Saturday evening show on Fox News for what he calls a major announcement. But Ed Rollins, who directed his 2008 campaign and has been organizing his 2012 campaign-in-waiting, said he has not been consulted.

“I’ve heard nothing, which indicates to me he’s not running,” Mr. Rollins said in an interview.

If Mr. Huckabee formally says he’s a no-go, his absence will [...]

CNN mulling Chris Rock for 7 p.m. show?

CNN brass are scrambling to find a new host for their troubled 7 p.m. timeslot, and trying to win back the African-American and Hispanic viewers sources say they’ve lost since the 2008 presidential campaign.

Hoping to accomplish both things at once, insiders said the network is interested in wooing African-American entertainers for the slot, currently held by “John King USA,” and has mentioned comedian Chris Rock and [...]

CBS: A new survey reveals what the typical American regrets

Wish you’d thought twice about getting that tattoo? Rue the day you went for a new hairstyle? Want to take back that reply-all e-mail you sent to the whole office yesterday? We all live with regrets — it’s a part of being human. But what choices cause the deepest sense of regret?

Maybe, when it comes to regrets you’re like Sinatra: His song says he’s had a few, [...]

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