Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is asking companies for financial donations to help implement President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul, months before it is due to take effect.

In telephone calls that began around March 23, officials say, Obama's top healthcare adviser has been seeking assistance from companies in the healthcare field and other industries as well as from healthcare providers, patient advocacy groups, churches and other charitable organizations.

Do you understand and remember more after reading from a page than reading from a screen? As Ferris Jabr reports for Scientific American, the book itself binds your understanding.

Reading is "topographic"

As you read something, you structure out its content in your mind, Jabr says; you're making a map of the meaning of the text. This process is tied to the physical object that you're interacting with: just as you mentally map a trail as you ascend a mountain, your brain plots the line-by-line journey your eyes walk through a book.

It might not exactly be the recession anymore, but many recent graduates are still finding they are having a hard time finding their way in a fast-paced and constantly changing job market. Nearly half of all graduates have a job that is not even remotely related to their academic specialization.

This means that unemployment rates are still pretty high, and job prospects are slim for recent grads who tend to have little to no experience. Furthermore, the professional reputation of recent graduates is lacking – most employers loathe working with unqualified graduates.

Global interest in the emerging entrepreneurial economies of Latin America has been on the rise. It is where Endeavor began—launching in Chile and Argentina in 1997—and more recently, the region’s vibrant cultures have led the likes of Geeks on a Plane and the Global Entrepreneurship Congress to take a closer look. This spring we report back from a few economies in the region.

Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico have already been recognized for their potential in becoming entrepreneurial hubs in Latin America. Each of the four has attracted Endeavor to establish local offices to accelerate the growth of local high-impact entrepreneurs. Equally important is the emergence of professional accelerators that nurture and invest in early stage startups, such as NXTP Labs in Buenos Aires, 21212 in Rio de Janeiro and Wayra in Mexico. And of course, Brazil hosted this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC).

Market forecasting is one of the most important traits in any entrepreneur. Figuring out what the consumer wants before they know it themselves is infinitely important. It’s also really frustrating when someone else hits the spot before you have your chance.

We combed through our deep-seeded insecurities to bring you a list of current (last five years) products that made us smack our foreheads. Hopefully, they’ll bring you one step closer to your ah-ha moment.

In his 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell shows how loose language masks stupid thinking. To make his point, the author translates a passage from Ecclesiastes from good to modern English. Let's review.

The old and beautiful:

"I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."

Imagine for a moment that your new business was the savior of an entire community. Now, imagine the fallout when your new business accidentally destroyed the trust of that entire community with one defective product.

This imaginary scenario became very real for the Impossible Project a few years ago, shortly after the company launched. As the only producer of classic Polaroid film on the entire planet, the expectations from customers were understandably enormous. When a batch of film rolled off the assembly line with a catastrophic defect, company heads were left with no choice but to go to their devoted clientele with a pure and honest plea.

Backpacking around the world will not help your resume. Get on a career track. It's likely that a stranger will help you develop your career more than your best friend. Remember: Typos and sick days matter.

If you "live together first" with your significant other, you are actually more likely to divorce. There is no reason to believe that your twenties will be the best years of your life.

In an era in which best-laid plans are quickly disrupted, the need for new tactics is constant. And that creates a need for constant inspiration. Our 100 Most Creative People in Business come from all industries around the globe; as they share their experiences in our pages, we hope they inspire yours. As in the four prior years, the 2013 edition features only people who haven't been on any previous lists or profiled in our magazine before. And still, there was no shortage of mind-blowing candidates: from TV's Connie Britton (Nashville), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), and Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele (Key & Peele); to folks from outifits as diverse as Ford, Twitter, Dropbox, Live Nation, the NFL, the NBA, Yahoo, Samsung, American Express, Foursquare, Big Machine Records, Spotify, Gap, and dozens of companies you may not know, including a wonderfully named fashion blog, Man Repeller.

The University City Science Center is collaborating with the Canadian Consulate General to pilot a business accelerator for health information and communication technology companies from Canada.

Opening on May 13, 2013, the Canadian Technology Accelerator at the Science Center will provide a 3-6 month “market immersion” experience for Canadian health IT companies, leveraging the Science Center’s resources and networks through its Port business incubator.

How does San Francisco Giants slugger Pablo Sandoval swat a 95 mph fastball, or tennis icon Venus Williams see the oncoming ball, let alone return her sister Serena’s 120 mph serves? For the first time, vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have pinpointed how the brain tracks fast-moving objects.

The discovery advances our understanding of how humans predict the trajectory of moving objects when it can take one-tenth of a second for the brain to process what the eye sees.

We’ve all seen this happening over the last few years. People sitting at their favorite coffee shop on their laptop working, people on airplanes working on their tablets, and people standing in queues typing away on their smartphones. We have also seen people typing SMSs while in their cars and talking on their cellphones.

Your mobile device is the new office space that you can take with you (almost) everywhere and use at any time. No longer do you need to be in your stuffy office to get work done or to check what’s going on. In our busy daily lives, it’s so much easier to get things done using tablets, laptops, and smartphones where you are not restricted to working from your office anymore.

3D printing is like having a small-scale manufacturing device right in your home or office.

3D printers are devices that can create three-dimensional objects.  Most 3D printers create objects in plastic. Some use ceramic, metal or other materials. There’s even a 3D printer that forms items out of chocolate or cheese.

How does 3D printing work?

In a way, the term “3D printing” is misleading. It sounds like a 3D printer somehow folds ordinary paper into objects – like origami.

Steve Case, founder of AOL, warned nearly 6,000 UNC graduates Sunday that America cannot afford to rest on its laurels if it wants to continue to be the world’s economic leader.

Case said other countries are quickly catching up after realizing that “entrepreneurship is the secret sauce that has powered our economy.”

President Barack Obama gave a vote of support to manufacturing entrepreneurs today.

The White House announced that it will coordinate three competitions for teams across the U.S. to win a combined $200 million to develop manufacturing innovation hubs. Teams consisting of any variety of companies, universities, community colleges and nonprofit organizations in one geographic region are eligible to band together to apply for the money. Winners will be picked later this year, the Obama administration says.

In today’s business startup environment, if you don’t move fast, you get run over. Without a sense of urgency, people and businesses just can’t move fast enough. Speed is the driver because customers have a zero tolerance for waiting, and there are always competitors gaining on you.

John P. Kotter, in "A Sense of Urgency," delves into the how-to required of entrepreneurs on that first step, avoiding pitfalls along the way. He is convinced that increasing the sense of urgency is the toughest of the steps necessary for effective change.

During her first earnings call after taking over as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer laid out her plan to start acquiring smaller companies that "align well overall with our businesses," noting that she had done about 20 such acquisitions in her long tenure at Google. That was just more than six months ago, but Mayer has already completed half as many acquisitions in her time at Yahoo.

Yahoo announced late Friday that it had acquired Loki Studios, a mobile gaming company, for its experience with "community and location-based mobile services." This marked Yahoo's fourth acquisition this month, and according to a Yahoo spokesperson, its 10th acquisition since Mayer took over as CEO in July. The full list includes: Stamped, OntheAir, Snip.it, Alike, Jybe, Summly, Astrid, GoPollGo, Milewise and Loki.

The wealth of nations comes from cutting edge research and development (R&D), technology, innovation and knowledge. In the Saudi system, we desperately need to create university TTOs (Technology Transfer Offices) in every university, to help them exploit their inventions for the common good. They think the potential to boost the economy is huge, based on examples overseas throughout US, Europe and Japan over the last 20 years.

Gov. Jack Dalrymple was in Grand Forks today to sign more than $120 million in legislation that will help create jobs and opportunities in an effort to grow and diversify North Dakota’s economy. Dalrymple signed Senate Bill 2018, the North Dakota Department of Commerce budget bill, and highlighted the bill’s appropriation of $5 million to develop an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) test site in North Dakota.

The Governor signed the bill during a news conference at the Ina Mae Rude Entrepreneur Center in Grand Forks. He was joined by University of North Dakota (UND) President Robert Kelley; Al Palmer, director of the Center for UAS Research, Education and Training at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences; legislators and other local officials.

There’s a discordant note in a quarterly survey of venture capitalist confidence published today by University of San Francisco professor Mark Cannice: VC confidence for the next six to 18 months increased for the third consecutive quarter, despite evidence that venture investors might not have so much to be confident about.