With arguably the coolest job on or off the planet, astronauts need nobody’s pity. Nonetheless, theirs is a life of extraordinary psychological demands: leadership, technical proficiency, split-second decision making and ironclad focus. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/oHVnH9l_JRw/how-to-keep-astronauts-from-going-astronuts AnnaLynne McCord Anne Marie Kortright April Scott

Cilantro might be the most polarizing thing on this planet. Some people can’t eat a fish taco without it, others cry frothy tears of dishsoap at its mere mention. The same may well be true of the LG Optimus 3D (known as the Thrill 4G in the US). We already felt a little torn about [...]

The right office space can make or break a business. It’s not easy getting the balance between affordability and the perfect premises, es… Source: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/SeQtdqoHKNg/ Cheryl Burke China Chow Chloë Sevigny

Kauffman Foundation analysis shows even successful small businesses aren’t adding jobs at the rates they did in previous decades. New businesses are starting smaller, surviving less often, and creating fewer jobs even when they thrive, according to new research. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s analysis of Labor Department and U.S. Census data shows that even [...]

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st… Source: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/rhg8-6poOaY/ Anna Kournikova Anna Paquin AnnaLynne McCord

Google still wants to make your website load faster. Google’s new Page Speed Service is one part optimization tool and one part content-distribution network. Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/07/googles-new-page-speed-service-promises-to-speed-up-your-website/ Chandra West Charisma Carpenter Charli Baltimore

Problem solving is a skill that start-up founders need to learn quickly. Use these steps to guide you. Creating a start-up, or managing any business, is all about problem solving. Some people are good at it and some are not—independent of their IQs or academic credentials (there may even be an inverse relationship here). Yet [...]

Photoshop can be used to create all kinds of imaginary worlds. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Ed Lopez will demonstrate how to create a ring world from the 1970’s Ring World novels by Larry Niven (and more recently from the Halo franchise) using some of the 3D tools available in Photoshop CS4 and CS5. [...]

I love mash-ups enough to be genuinely concerned that they’re almost exclusively musical. But hopefully, if we’re all very lucky, this convergence of Bill Nye and Breaking Bad will usher in a new era of wonderful—and hilarious—television tie-ups. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/8BjzqLwOE4U/this-weeks-top-web-comedy-video-if-billy-nye-were-in-breaking-bad Angela Marcello Angelina Jolie Anna Faris

Google has released a minor update to the Chrome dev channel which might be of interest to Mac OS X Lion fans. Previous releases of Chrome for Mac included support for left and right three-finger swipe gestures to navigate backward and forward in browsing history. Unfortunately those gestures conflict with gestures in Lion, which, by [...]