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At 32 years old, LeBron James is having one of his most robust statistical seasons.

While he's averaging his usual 26 points and nearly eight rebounds per game, the number that sticks out the most is his 8.2 assists per game, the second highest average of his career.

On a Cleveland Cavaliers team stocked with scorers and shooters, James has tried to improve his playmaking skills, specifically, by learning how to throw the perfect pass.

James told ESPN earlier... Читать дальше...

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PASADENA, California – Months before Fox's upcoming "24" spin-off show cast Corey Hawkins as its star, the network made it clear it was looking for a nonwhite lead actor.

The producers said that decision wasn't something that was handed down to them from the network, but more about trying to distance the new main character, Eric Carter, from Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer from the original series.

"Jack Bauer casts a very long shadow," "24: Legacy" executive... Читать дальше...

LinkedIn

When someone goes to a job interview with LinkedIn's head of recruiting, Brendan Browne, one of the first things he'll do is hand over an erasable marker and direct you to a whiteboard on the wall.

Browne has been at the helm of the professional social network's recruitment team since 2010, and in building his own team he's found an unusual exercise to be the best indicator of whether he should hire a candidate, he explained to Business Insider.

He'll ask the candidate... Читать дальше...

When it comes to health and productivity, it's not just about what you do — eating right, exercising, and working hard — it's also about when you do it.

CSPAN

Sen. Cory Booker forcefully denounced President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general on Wednesday in a passionate testimony that broke with longstanding Senate tradition.

The New Jersey Democrat assailed the record of Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, saying the Republican's voting record suggests a "hostility" toward civil rights and criminal justice reform.

"Sen. Sessions has not demonstrated a commitment to a central requisite of the job: to aggressively pursue the congressional mandate of civil rights... Читать дальше...

The USGS has attached a camera to a polar bear in order to study its behavior and feeding rates. The footage will serve to provide more information for scientists to understand how polar bears are responding to sea ice declines.

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Does Tesla want to develop a connected-car platform to challenge Apple CarPlay and Google's Android Auto?

It's an increasingly relevant question now that the automaker has hired Chris Lattner, a veteran Apple executive best known for creating the Swift programming language beloved by iOS app developers, to be VP of Autopilot Software. Читать дальше...

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Want to prepare for your next job interview?

Start thinking about how you'd fare in a zombie apocalypse.

Sometimes, interviewers just want to get a sense of how well you're able to think outside the box.

That's why it's not too surprising that some of the most successful executives out there like to ask some pretty weird questions during job interviews.

Here are some of those oddball questions.

'On a scale of one to 10, how weird... Читать дальше...

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A paper landed in my inbox this week with a startling premise: That soon, stem cells swabbed from human beings' cheeks or skin could be cultured to create germ cells (sperm and eggs), and from there used to create a human being.

The process, known as in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), has never been completed with cells from people. And, in fact, human and primate studies have been met with limited success. But there have been real, live mice (and more mouse... Читать дальше...

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Rex Tillerson broke with President-elect Donald Trump, who nominated him for secretary of state, on whether the US would fulfill its commitments to defend its NATO allies.

Trump suggested during his campaign that, as president, he would defend NATO allies only "if they fulfill their obligations" to the US. He has also discussed the need for US allies to contribute more to their own defense.

Sen. Rob Portman questioned Tillerson, the former Exxon Mobil CEO... Читать дальше...

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Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennial women how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we're tracking every last dollar. (Thanks, New York mag, for the inspiration.)

Today, a woman hosting a dinner party while training for a half-marathon.

Industry: Performing arts/media

Age: 30

Location: NYC

Salary: $50,000

Paycheck Amount (Every Two Weeks)... Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, has pledged to divest at least $94 million worth of investments in 43 entities to avoid conflicts of interest, according to an ethics agreement released on Wednesday.

Mnuchin said in a 42-page financial disclosure report that these investments include more than $50 million worth of common shares of CIT Group Inc, the financial services group that acquired his OneWest Bank in 2015. Читать дальше...

Andrew “Drew” Kelly

Tim Ferriss is all about advice. 

He's doled it out through bestselling books including "The 4-Hour Workweek" and "Tools of Titans."

And he's been given plenty himself, through his podcast The Tim Ferriss Show, where he interviews high achievers like Marc Andreessen and Tony Robbins.

But how does he decide which advice is good? And you can't take every piece of advice — how are we supposed to know which is worth taking?

At Entrepreneur, Aaron Gell asked Ferriss that exact question. Читать дальше...

CNN

CNN distanced itself from BuzzFeed on Wednesday after the digital news outlet published a document that contained unverified claims about President-elect Donald Trump's campaign conduct and personal life.

CNN published a report Tuesday that said US intelligence officials had presented Trump with a two-page synopsis of an intelligence report that indicated Russian agents claimed to have compromising information about the president-elect.

BuzzFeed quickly piggybacked on the report. Читать дальше...

Carlo Ratti Associati

When you pick up a tomato at the grocery store, you might judge it on its ripeness. You can't tell much else just by looking at it.

But the tomato has a whole backstory — from the vine it grew on to the CO2 it generated on the farm to the chemical treatments it received.

The "Supermarket of the Future" wants to give you that backstory. In late December, a custom Coop supermarket designed by MIT's Senseable City Lab opened in Milan. Display screens in the... Читать дальше...

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Outside the hearing on former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s nomination as secretary of state, 15 people dressed as T-Rex dinosaurs joined hundreds of protesters.

In addition to calling Tillerson a climate dinosaur — a reference to Exxon's history of climate change denial — the demonstrators’ rhetoric centered around one phrase: #ExxonKnew.

The allegation refers to two damning investigations conducted by the LA Times and Inside Climate News in 2015, both... Читать дальше...

Sen. Lindsey Graham accused the NAACP of having an anti-Republican bias during a testy exchange with the leader of the civil-rights group on Wednesday.

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ATLANTA (AP) — The so-called "Ferguson effect" — officers backing off of policing out of fear that their actions will be questioned after the fact — has been talked about but never really quantified. A new study suggests the effect is a reality, with three-quarters of officers surveyed saying they are hesitant to use force, even when appropriate, and are less willing to stop and question suspicious people.

The nonpartisan Pew Research Center questioned at least... Читать дальше...

The Fiscal Times

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest U.S. business lobby group on Wednesday said it could be a mistake to quickly repeal Obamacare without developing a replacement healthcare insurance plan and urged the incoming Trump administration not to erect trade barriers.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce faces challenges with the next U.S. president and his team, including overcoming deep divisions on key issues like trade while trying to work together on common goals like repealing... Читать дальше...

Offerman Wood Shop

Actor and comedian Nick Offerman has more than a little in common with Ron Swanson, the legendary outdoorsman and boss he played on the classic sitcom "Parks and Recreation" for seven seasons. 

First, like his character, Offerman is a master craftsman: He operates a woodshop out of Los Angeles, and recently wrote a book about his experiences there. Second, he's a rugged individualist who's expressed concern over the impact of modern technology on the notion of human self-reliance. Читать дальше...

Hollis Johnson

Panera Bread is rolling out delivery at hundreds of its restaurants across the US.

"We're in full roll out mode — this is no longer a test for us," Panera CEO Ron Shaich said in a presentation at the ICR Conference on Wednesday. 

Shaich said that the company plans to add delivery at 35% to 40% of the chain's roughly 2,000 locations by the end of 2017. 

"For us, delivery is a mass-market opportunity," Shaich said. 

According to Shaich, Panera has a menu that is well-suited for delivery. Читать дальше...

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It's official: Woody Harrelson will be part of the Disney "Star Wars" universe.

StarWars.com confirmed Wednesday a report from earlier this month that Harrelson has signed on to be part of the upcoming young Han Solo movie.

The yet-to-be-titled movie, which will star Alden Ehrenreich as the young Solo, will be the latest movie that will take place outside of the main "Star Wars" saga. It's a standalone entry in the vein of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,"... Читать дальше...

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President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at BuzzFeed on Wednesday for publishing a 35-page unverified intelligence report which contained salacious claims about his campaign conduct and personal life.

Describing BuzzFeed as a "failing pile of garbage" at his first press conference in 169 days, Trump said he was confident the outlet would "suffer the consequences" for making the decision to publish the dossier.

Sean Spicer, the incoming White House press secretary... Читать дальше...

White House

The White House on Wednesday said US President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team have refused to make public information that would put to rest questions about his and his family's possible financial entanglements in Russia.

"There's ample evidence that they could marshal, to make public to refute those claims, those accusations that they say are baseless. But they refuse to do so," spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing. "That kind of secrecy only serves to sow public doubt."

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NASA recently built a structure that will test rockets under the same stresses they will experience at launch. Take a look at this amazing time-lapse of it being built.