NBC’s US$1 billion deal to become America’s official Olympic media for the Beijing 2008 Games was part of a record breaking $2.3 billion deal that included the the 2004 Summer Olympics ($793m) and the 2006 Winter Games ($613m). In what they’ve called the single most ambitious media project in history, NBC has sent the largest [...]

Textile designer Kim Rosin has drawn from her extensive background in architecture, interior design, and African and modern art to create something perfectly practical for your kitchen. These oven mitts by Kim Things come in bright colors and happy designs inspired by Rosin’s heritage, and the patterns also adorn tote bags, aprons, sachets and potholders. [...]

Two weeks ago, I took my dream golf trip to Bandon Dunes with 7 of my golf buddies. Here are my quick thoughts on my off-the-course experience and hopefully they will help you plan a Bandon Dunes golf trip:
Air Travel
The fastest way to get to Bandon is to fly into North Bend airport (OTH). [...]

Don’t use Wal-Mart advertising techniques to sell to a Tiffany’s buyer – Lou Adler
Great design is at the heart of great marketing. For years, I’ve been preaching about the need to use advanced consumer marketing concepts to attract top talent. Every issue of Fast Company has some great marketing ideas that can be incorporated in [...]

Hi there. You may be looking in your feed reader every day and thinking “Another no-news-’bout-FeedBurner day.” You may be starting to think, “Are they still in there? In the FeedBurner bubble, burning the feeds? Did somebody maybe shut off their connection to the Tubes?” You may be thinking that or worse. We have [...]

Today FeedBurner channels our inner Picasso, as we proudly sponsor the Bernstein & Andriulli New Media Symposium happening this evening at the Library at The SoHo House in New York City. Bernstein & Andriulli is an artist management agency that represents all types of imaginative folks like photographers, illustrators, stylists, hair and makeup [...]

Background:
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used in directed sequencing for the discovery of novel polymorphisms. As the first step in PCR directed sequencing, effective PCR primer design is crucial for obtaining high-quality sequence data for target regions. Since current computational primer design tools are not fully tuned with stable underlying laboratory protocols, researchers [...]

Background:
Although many nerve prostheses have been proposed in recent years, in the case of consistent loss of nervous tissue, peripheral nerve injury is still a traumatic pathology that may impair the patient’s movements by interrupting his motor-sensory pathways. In the last few decades, tissue engineering has opened the door to new approaches. However most of [...]