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Gym-Pact is a social enterprise program in Boston that is based on the principles of behavioral economics. It is designed to help people stay committed to fitness through attendance monitoring and monetary incentives. Practically all of us resolve to hit the gym and get fit but are generally unable to sustain the motivation and miss out on workouts [...]

Billionaires are obviously ambitious, smart, and very, very, very lucky. There are, however, some surprisingly common traits among them. Here are the trends that presented themselves. The most common professions among the parents of American billionaires were engineer, accountant, and small-business owner – all math-related careers. They have [...]

How does the idea of a Micromagnetic-Microfluidic Blood Filter that selectively rips out the microbes that are linked to your blood cells and are killing you from the inside sound? A wonderful fantasy at its optimistic best or a marketing lie, if you are not much of an upbeat guy. But that is exactly what a team of researchers at Ingber Lab at Harvard [...]

Bill Gates is arguably the number one business leader that the past quarter-century has produced. An instinctive innovator and incurable entrepreneur for most of his life, he started what would be a long career in programming computers at the tender age of 13. He quit Harvard in his junior year to develop what would eventually be Microsoft, co-founding [...]