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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. Managing an online distributed global team takes different set of skills, a different set of tools, it takes a different level of discipline. million jobs.

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Exploring The Everyday: Better Meat For a Better Future

View from Seed

I served in Pakistan and Australia. In the early 2000s, there was an artist by the name of Oron Catts , who, as an art demonstration, was able to grow frog cells in serum and then presented them at a dinner. J: Fish is the largest animal protein market globally. And much to his delight, four out of the eight guests spat it out.

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Why It’s Time for Les Moonves to Go — You Can’t Charm Your Way out of Sexual Misconduct

Both Sides of the Table

There are four named individuals in the story, each risking careers by publicly speaking up. It documents his career in the Obama administration working under Richard Hoolbrook on diplomacy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and under Secretary Clinton in the State Department.

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