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Reflections on Micronesia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It's great to go to completely different places, spending time learning about history, politics, issues and culture from new perspectives. Guam has special building codes for typhoons, kind of like California's earthquake-inspired building codes. I also learned about traditional drugs that have important cultural overtones.

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Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges

Top Nonprofits

It can be at the least divisive, and at the most, disruptive and damaging to the culture, production, public relations, and financial well-being of an organization. This isn’t new, it’s just amped up” says company culture expert Josh Levine, author of Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Employees Love.

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How a bruising Microsoft lawsuit fueled the fight for fair pay

The Verge

An indigenous Chamorro woman from an island just north of Guam, Anuncia worked as an infertility specialist, researching in vitro fertilization and stem cell techniques. Part of her work meant training other doctors, many of whom went on to far more lucrative practices on their own. This bait-and-switch is much larger than Microsoft.

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