Robert Montenegro

Swiss researchers conducted an experiment gauging how bankers fared against other professions in a test in which cheating was easy and incentivized. Unsurprisingly, bankers — particularly those who had just prior been asked questions related to banking — were more likely to lie for financial gain.

The Great Lakes region is the United States’ snowiest non-mountainous region. The reason for freak snowstorms like the one currently setting records in Buffalo, New York is a weather phenomenon called lake-effect snow.

The day Marty McFly and Doc Brown visit 2015 is upon us! Unfortunately, things today aren’t exactly as the film envisioned.

Urban legends about the dangers of microwave ovens are not grounded in facts. Not only is it a safe way to cook food, there are some dishes that are healthier when heated in a microwave oven.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web 25 years ago, spoke this weekend about the need for more MPs who know how to code. 

The momentousness of certain situations can undo us.

Should certain organizations be exempt from paying artists a minimum wage? This question becomes difficult to tackle when lines between ‘work’ and ‘play’ become blurred. At the same time, some of these institutions are able to get away with paying workers nothing.

IBM’s talented and versatile Watson supercomputer is now about to become your own personal health guru. A new app will harness Watson’s abilities to allow you to obtain health and fitness advice similar to how you get driving directions from Siri.

A new report seeks to dispel outdated myths about young children and screen exposure. While it’s important that screen time isn’t used as a replacement for personal contact, the two aren’t at all mutually exclusive.

Maintaining both a personal and professional presence online requires both a delicate touch and an understanding that lines are inevitably going to become blurred.

Your Kindle software update may have already updated the fonts and graphics on your device, but did you know that a new feature will now allow you to treat e-books like real books and give you the ability to share them with your family members?

Researchers have long understood that playing action-packed video games can boost one’s cognitive and perceptual abilities. A new study claims to have found the reason: These types of video games improve one’s ability to learn new tasks. The problem is that a conflicting study claims the exact opposite. 

Did you know October was National Bullying Prevention Month? Researchers at Clemson University are finding that campaigns such as NBPM are not reaping the results organizer had hoped.

Why aren’t millennials saving money? One reason is that the crippling recession has made the generation distrustful of banks. Another is that they hardly have any money to save, especially after paying down debt.

Google has launched “Google Bus Bangladesh,” an educational program aimed at teaching 500,000 young Bangladeshis about the internet. Bangladesh is the world’s 8th most populous nation yet many of its 157 million people remain offline.

Employers who provide their workers with an on-site canteen or cafeteria tend to sport workforces with higher morale and boosted productivity.

The NFL’s success hosting regular season games at Wembley may spur the league into expanding full-time across the Atlantic.

If you’re not routinely keeping your brain fit through physical and mental exercise, you’re putting yourself at risk for an early descent into Age Related Cognitive Decline (ARCD). Do your brain a favor and feed it what it likes.

Working with someone you don’t like doesn’t have to be a toxic situation. Try focusing on the person’s positive aspects when trying to bridge gaps between you.

A writer makes a connection between the wild world of Twitter and the sociological principles of hypercriticism, which stipulates that negative statements are inherently assumed to be more intelligent than positive ones.

Wouldn’t it be more fair if being elected to a federal office required a majority rather than plurality of votes? Perhaps it’s time to replace our current voting system with a ranked ballot.

Despite all those early quarrels, research suggests that having a sibling greatly improves your behavioral development and quality of life.

If you’ve got a friend or family member who practices medicine, asking them for advice can feel like an easy alternative to visiting a doctor. But sometimes those requests for help cross a line that doctors aren’t keen to approach. 

The reason why isn’t important. If you want to keep your job search a secret, the key is erasing potential clues while maintaining a strong office poker face.

If you’re a winter sports buff who’s always wanted a custom-built snowboard, perhaps look into a trip to Innsbruck. There, a company called Spurart will guide you in handcrafting your own board.

The so-called sharing economy rarely features actual instances of people sharing items with each other, or at least not without a price. Starting a neighborhood sharing network is a great way to unite a community beneath the banner of pooled resources. 

Most examples of stress management advice call for long-term lifestyle shifts, which are all fine and good. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything you can do when stress sneaks up on your in the moment.

French researchers have developed an equation that, after accounting for specific variables, can inform runners and coaches of the optimal strategy for winning a race.

A map of Africa displaying Ebola’s limited geographical reach seeks to educate the internet about the ridiculousness of ostracizing people who have recently returned from Sub-Saharan Africa. 

There’s a fine line between fostering company culture and seeking to control member thinking and behavior. If your organization is leaning toward the latter, it’s being run like a cult… and cults don’t do good business.