“Employees who are secure and happy can better focus on customer success.” Sounds like something Paul Hawken might say, but it’s a description of the philosophy at HCL Technologies, an Indian IT outsourcing company. Vineet Nayar, president of the company, has implemented innovative practices to keep employees secure and happy, including publicly available ratings for all managers and the ability to open tickets on any issue an employee thinks needs attention.

Most of us that live in suburban or even urban environs don’t have the kind of detailed knowledge of the immediate area around our homes that would make living within walking distance possible. Alex Steffen at WorldChanging speculates about the kinds of tools that might make that possible.

A researcher at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has developed a method to reverse cell division, sending duplicate chromosomes back to the center of the original cell.

These maps of the distribution of religious belief across the United States are fascinating. Not much surprising, but seeing it in color on a map really helps grasp what religion means here.

Call me timid, but I’m not sure I want to fly on an airline that wants to be known as the Wal-Mart of the airline industry, even for free. But you’ve got to give props to RyanAir for giving people what they want in travel: cheap, no frills transportation.