Experts

8 Must-Read Wedding Planning Books

The Huffington Post | Jennifer Lai | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Wedding Planning, Wedding Planning Books, Wedding Planning Advice, Video, Experts, Wedding Planning Tips, Big Day Books, Slidepollajax, Wedding Experts, Weddings News

There's certainly no shortage of wedding planning resources out there, but where should a newly-engaged couple start? To keep you from getting over...

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What Is a Design Expert?

Soren Petersen | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Creativity, Design, Experts, Business, Service, Products, Business News
Soren Petersen

Design is now increasingly being recognized as a competitive advantage, however few outside the creative community actually know what design can provi...

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Beware of the Everyday Expert

Daniel Gulati | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Career Advice, Social Media, Self-Improvement, Experts, Self-Awareness, Managing Yourself, Everyday Expert, Business Experts, Trustworthy Experts, Technology News
Daniel Gulati

In the past you had to spend years acquiring specialist skills or knowledge in a particular field to be recognized as an expert. But with the rise of social media, the path to expertise -- or more correctly, perceived expertise -- has shortened dramatically.

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Cheese Graders: Experts Name Their Favorite Green Cheeses

Avital Binshtock | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Fiscalini, France, Vegan, Milk, Green, Eco, Bob Wills, Anaerobic Digester, Organic, Cedar Grove Cheese, Bleu, Miyoko Schinner, Experts, Jeanette Hurt, Sierra Club, Lazy Lady, Bute Island, Todd Moore, Beaufort Chalet D'alpage, Wisconsin, Lucky Layla, Dairy, Vermont, Cheese, Wendy Wu, Blue, Brie, Texas, Classified, Cows, Living Machine, Environment, Affineur, Food, Jeff Roberts, Cheddar, Food News
Avital Binshtock

No matter how you slice it, mainstream cheese is inefficient fare: Almost 10 pounds of milk are needed to make a typical 1-pound wheel. But you need not forsake your favorite Gouda. Just choose a brand that takes sustainability into account. I asked five experts to name their favorites.

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The Best of Mondays With Marlo

Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Marlo Thomas, Women, Video, Experts, Women News

Every Monday I feel so lucky to talk to amazing experts like Suze Orman, Dr. Oz, Deepak Chopra and Tory Johnson. I've picked four of my favorite Mond...

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Why Eyewitness Memory Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be (Part I)

Sam Sommers | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Trial, Crime Scene, Court Case, Courtroom, Identification, Eyewitness Identification, New York Times, Memory, Robbery, Experts, Defendant, Expert Witness, Eyewitness, Crime News
Sam Sommers

Few moments in a courtroom are as compelling to a jury as seeing a confident witness point out a defendant and say, "that's the man I saw at the crime scene."

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Expert Snack Tips for the Summer

Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Marlo Thomas, Experts, Snacks, Jillian Michaels, Martha Stewart, Joy Bauer, Ina Garten, Women News

Some of the biggest names in food have joined me on Mondays with Marlo ( Ina Garten and Martha Stewart, just to name a few! ) Each of them showed ...

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Expert Networks Could Be Next Target After Insider Trading Verdict

nytimes.com | EVELYN M. RUSLI | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Insider Trading, Raj Rajaratnam, Rajat Gupta, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Manosha-Karunatilaka, Galleon Group, Experts, Expert Networks, Raj Guilty, Business News

With the government securing a conviction against Raj Rajaratnam of the Galleon Group on Wednesday, federal prosecutors will shift their focus to expe...

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Dream-Killers and the Entrepreneur: The Expert

Lindsay Hyde | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Innovation, Experts, Business, Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Impact News
Lindsay Hyde

Dream Killers are oft understood as barriers to the entrepreneurial dream, a sentiment I certainly shared in the early phases of launching Strong Women, Strong Girls.

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Is Tancredo a Great Communicator?

Jason Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Katy Atkinson, Tom Tancredo, Denver Post, Tancredo Obama, Experts, Tancredo Bomb Mecca, Pundits, Denver News
Jason Salzman

Tancredo is clearly great at getting media attention, and he is a good speaker, but he's not so great as a communicator, because he goes off message too often, and it's not clear what he's trying to achieve.

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You Are an Expert If I Say You Are

Ari Herzog | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Branding, Expertise, Experts, Business News
Ari Herzog

Let's answer the "Am I an expert?" question once and for all. If I say you are an expert, you are. If this or that person groups you with other experts to answer a question, don't deny your inclusion. Don't make excuses. Smile widely and accept it.

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Who Cares What the Experts Say? - The Democratization of Science

Terry Newell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Science, Climate Change, Experts, Values, Politics News
Terry Newell

The difficulty during last year's Copenhagen Climate Summit in reaching agreement on how to address global warming reflects the contentious political ...

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Get Culinary Confidence: 10 Tips, Tricks and Techniques from the Experts that Every Aspiring Chef Should Know

Divya Gugnani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Experts, Tips, Divya Gugnani, Behind the Burner, Tricks, Culinary Confidence, Aspiring Chef, Belinda Chang, Daniel Boulud, Harold Dieterle, Michael Psilakis, Dean Fearing, Rob Endelman, Michael White, Marcus Samuelsson, Techniques, Alain Allegretti, Gale Gand, Slidepollajax, Food News
Divya Gugnani

Cooking can go from being fun and engaging to stressful and frustrating if you're a kitchen novice. The kitchen can definitely be a place of confusion.

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Health Care Meeting: Expert Updates, Reaction And Analysis

The Huffington Post | Compiled By Ryan Grim and Jeremy Binckes | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Huffington Post asked a variety of health care experts, bloggers, members of Congress and progressive activists to weigh in on Thursday's health c...

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Tea, Green: Five Experts Serve Up Their Favorite Eco-Friendly Brews

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Traditional Medicinals, Cold, David Karr, Sri Lanka, Fair-Trade, Swaraj 'Rajah' Banerjee, Coffee, China, Products, Loose Leaf, Cooperative, History, St. Martin's, Biodiversity, Assam Plant, Yerba Mate, Tea Talk, Black, Noncorporate, Experts, Tea, Solar Power, Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea From East to West, Books, Gong Fu, Handpicked, Echinacea, Tea Sommelier, Production, Lake County, Small Organic Farmers' Association, Los Angeles, Sustainable, Exhibit, Rudolf Steiner, Responsible, Fowler Museum, Certified, Ucla, Connoisseurs, Curator, Harvest, Drinkers, Newsletter, Brews, Practices, Workforce, Leaves, Pesticides, Workers, Small-Scale, Gretchen Iler, Flu, Beverage, Citadel, Organic, Drink, California, Flavor, Fujian Province, Steep, Usda, Floral Notes, Meditations With Tea: Paths to Inner Peace, Sierra Magazine, Ten Tea, Silver Tips, Rainforest-Safe, Rishi Tea, Herbs, Deforestation, Brands, Illinois, Infusion, Oakland, Pu-Erh Ginger, Biodynamic, Makaibari Tea Estates, Ahmed Rahim, Equal Exchange, Diana Rosen, Oolong, Religion, Industry, Farmers, Environment, Yunnan Province, Beatrice Hohenegger, Recommendations, Wuyi Mountain, Ceylon, Sebastopol, Guayakí, Numi, Darjeeling, Green News
Avital Binshtock

The tea industry has an ugly history of deforesting, damaging biodiversity, and using pesticides. To promote more enlightened sipping, we asked five experts to name their preferred brew.

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Two Types of Experts

Simon Sinek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business, Start With Why, Entrepreneurs, Academics, Experts, Expertise, Business, Entrepreneurship, Why, Business News
Simon Sinek

There are two kinds of experts, academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different and each offers very different value.

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No Hurricane Worries? Not So Fast

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coast, Knight Foundation, Tropical, Category, 2010, Preparedness, Philip J. Klotzbach, Cone of Uncertainty, Gerald Campbell, Katrina, Experts, Mississippi, National Hurricane Center, Season, Miami, Knight Center for International, Depression, Florida, Zone, Complacency, Louisiana, Wind, Develop, Forecast, El Nino, William M. Gray, Colorado State University, Office of Emergency Management, Water, Storms, Atlantic Ocean, Bill, Bill Read, Hurricane, Ocean, Green News
Joseph B. Treaster

Here's the bad news about the quiet, almost peaceful hurricane season in 2009: Right away, people start thinking this is the norm. They start to relax and maybe even make fun of hurricanes.

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Ghostwritten Medical Articles Cast Doubt on Reliability of Drugs

Lennard Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Premarin, Depression, Estrogen Replacement Therapies, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ghostwriting, Drug Companies, Prozac, Ghostwriters, Wyeth, Experts, Medicine, Medical-Journals, Business News
Lennard Davis

We need to be extremely careful when we read that "experts have said" or that "experiments have shown" -- particularly when we are looking at difficult-to-treat affective disorders.

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What's Wrong with Experts?

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalgiving, Expertise, Experts, Workplace Collaboration, Financial Experts, Collaboration, Sustainable Business Practices, Business News
Dennis Whittle

There are many areas where there is no clear right answer or no clear best practice. And it is precisely in these fields that we must be careful of a "tyranny of the experts."

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Expert As Frenemy: Notes On The New Yorker Summit

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, The New Yorker, Politics, Afghanistan, Hope, Pakistan, Naomi Klein, Bear Stearns, Frenemy, Malcolm Gladwell, Iraq, Barack Obama, Experts, Poverty, World, Politics News
Sanjay Khanna

Human nature leads us to turn towards expert-dependent disciplines to save us from ourselves but to what extent are experts -- and our own competence -- the frenemy in our midst?

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Charlie Rose and His Iraq War Panel

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kbr, Stephen Biddle, Charlie Rose, Iraq War, War Profiteering, Vali Nasr, Michael Gordon, Experts, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

What appalled me was that Rose allowed key problems regarding Americans' perceptions of the Iraq adventure to be omitted from the discussion altogether.

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