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“You don’t spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It’s a small service, and there’s a lot of esprit de corps.”
While companies tend to wait until week’s end to announce bad news, doing so opens them up to scrutiny.
Barbara Corcoran: Build a Powerful Brand Barbara Corcoran learned early the value of building a powerful brand. In this lesson she teaches you shortcuts for standing out amidst the noise […]
The threat of territorial annihilation as a perverse incentive for the home front – on both sides
War, smoking, and obesity are straining the world’s economy, but there’s concern among researchers that obesity is most on the rise. If there’s not an action plan put in place, societies may be feeling the strain on more than just health-care costs.
The Great Orion Nebula is so great, it needed a second Messier object all to itself! “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others […]
Anxiety is not productive. The communications industry suffers from an existential crisis wrought by technological change. Standards have been upended, and the digital world — a universe of bits and […]
Everyone has broken the law at one point or another. People speed, park in handicap spaces, and jaywalk. How can you make people obey these simple laws? Fines don’t help, though a new incentive may be the answer.
According to one expert, a person tends to suffer from “expectation hangovers” when things don’t go their way. Harnessing present disappointment and employing it as a learning tool is key to achieving future success.
Everyone loves free food and corporations have caught on. However, is the purpose of this charity to boost office morale or chain staff members to their jobs. Psychologists think it’s a little bit of both.
If somebody tells you the risk of something is “1 in a million” or “1 in ten thousand” or even “1 in ten”, you still don’t know nearly enough to gauge how big or small that risk actually is. Get more information before you decide how worried to be.
“If someone is to consider black and white for their project I guess I would say the heads up that I would offer is that they need to be prepared to fight for it and lobby for that… Connections are not in color or in black and white. They’re invisible but just as real.”
“Frenemies” play an inevitable role in our extended social network. But our interactions with them pose real threats to our wellbeing, say researchers at the University of Utah.
A second scientific experiment, this time in America, has established that telepathy is possible.
Although the creation of the Internet is thought to mark a new era in human history, its effect on society, especially in economic terms, has proven unremarkable.
When researchers presented canines with odors of other dogs, food, and their human masters, it was the scent of humans that excited dogs the most.
Only in America do people trample each other for sales a day after being thankful for what they already have.
“If we’re going to solve the problems that we’re trying to solve – and it’s not just for the Foundation, it’s for all of us, we’ve got to tap into the creativity and the capability and the innovation potential of the private sector.”
-Julie Sunderland of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, from her recent Big Think Interview
The best 2015 calendar makes a great gift. And you can win one for free just for reading this blog! “We are not the same persons this year as last; […]
It turns out that creativity resides within your brain’s left hemisphere as well. This was among the findings of a new study determining that creative impulses require activity throughout the entire brain.
A new Spanish law encouraging foreign investment allows entrepreneurs to obtain an extended-stay visa.
Half of the world’s population could soon reside in concentrated metropolises of 10 million or more people. Some expect there to be up to forty of these megacities by 2025.
A recent study found that supplementing x-rays, MRI, and ultrasounds with a 3D-printed model of a patient’s heart helped surgeons perform delicate procedures to repair severe abnormalities.
If there’s something before the Big Bang, then what does that mean for the beginning of our Universe? “You can try to lie to yourself. You can try to tell […]
The United States and Myanmar are tied for first overall, with the USA being the only nation to score in the top 10 for all metrics: giving, volunteering, and helping strangers.
“Be patient with the belligerence of the simple-minded. It is not easy to understand that one doesn’t understand.”
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 19th century Austrian novelist
An addictive product should at least provide value to the consumer and improve their lives. E-mail is a good example. Candy Crush — not so much.
Seasonal affective disorder (or, fittingly enough, SAD) is caused by the body’s reaction to the changing times of sunrise and sunset. It’s why some people get depressed in the winter. Luckily, treating it isn’t hard.
The four major American sports leagues like to boast that women make up about 40-45% of their fanbases. Yet when it comes to participating in sports conversation on Twitter, women form a minuscule percentage of followers.