From Aeroflot to McDonald’s and many other businesses in between, a new wave of service training aims to change the country’s famously infamous treatment of customers.
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How a new year, a new platform, and the same core cosmic principles are coming together to bring you the greatest stories the Universe tells us about itself. “Beauty is everywhere […]
Want to tell which of your Facebook friends are brightening your day, and which are bringing you down? There’s an app for that.
We all know Rockwell’s Freedom from Want by heart, even if we don’t know its title.
The stars, gas and dust of our own galaxy dominates our night sky. But what secrets does the Universe hold beyond that? “Who are we? We find that we live on […]
It’s the most fantastic idea ever bandied about: that there are an infinite number of Universes identical to our own out there, and that everything that could have possibly happened […]
Have you ever considered all of the ways just a single poor night of sleep may be messing with you?
As we end 2013 and look toward 2014 in global health, we’re reminded that the world is a very fragile place.
There are a number of cases of mysterious disappearances relating to neutrino physicists.
Tech-savvy, hard-working people, says Tyler Cowen in his book Average is Over, have a lot to gain in the new economy. The rest of us? Not so much.
Within some non-Western cultures, voice hearing is valued and it would not be seen as indicative of any illness at all.
The handle of the Big Dipper leads you to Arcturus, the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere. But there’s a deep-sky wonder hiding in plain sight, if you know where […]
Where the first atoms in the Universe — the progenitors of all the normal matter that makes up everything we know — came from. “I see a lot of new faces. But, you know the […]
How the mis-application of the Anthropic Principle has led factions of scientists away from the search for a natural, physical explanation of our Universe, and why that’s bad for everyone. […]
If you’ve been following YouTube Geek Week, you may have noticed that YouTube has been releasing one Easter egg per day this week.
Across the long distance of a clear Atlantic Ocean, the Blundell Hunter lands on the shore of Old Harbour, Jamaica. The ship had docked two days prior in Morant Bay, […]
I think online education has the opportunity to completely blow this thing inside out where everybody has access to really great education.
Spend more time in the company of people who have the habits you want.
As I explained a couple of years ago, I lost interest in talking up Constitution Day when the government said we at colleges that get federal money are required to […]
A new study demonstrates how a group can complement and “average out” one’s unattractive idiosyncrasies.
Everybody built very big missiles all through the end of the marketplace at once and they kind of canceled each other out.
Background: I came across a remarkable story, from some years ago, where someone was rather upset with Canadian game developer Bioware for including an optional homosexual element in a, now […]
New research suggests that people are largely biologically programmed to wake up and fall asleep at certain times. Those with “late” programming tend to struggle more with traditional work schedules, and can experience health problems as well.
I was in a creative nonfiction program some years ago, and as part of the program, students would visit with culture magazine editors in New York. An editor explained to […]
Last week, the Syrian Electronic Army briefly hacked President Obama’s official Twitter account and claimed to have accessed some of his sensitive campaign emails. And this follows months of speculation that Chinese […]
It’s the first time such conspicuous planning has been observed in the field — in this case, Sumatra — among non-human primates.
If life expansion becomes achievable, the question still remains whether it will be accessible for everyone, as opposed to just the super rich.
IN THE old days of the three European missions – imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism – scholars insisted on the existence of Asian “philosophies” and, naturally, they called Asian thinkers “philosophers.” […]
Often you’ll find yourself having those sleepless nights in Seattle and in other places and it’s only when you are asleep that you aren’t basically stuck with this metronome of worry.
Imaging technology has advanced to the point where a brain scan can detect a lie with up to 90 percent accuracy. That’s not good enough for the courtroom…yet.