CALLUM CONNECTS INTERVIEWS Macy Schuchart – Founder & CEO of Ancient Bliss This article was originally published here: Macy Schuchart – Founder & CEO of Ancient Bliss Macy Schuchart has turned her belief in the power of herbs into a business providing natural supplements. What’s your story? I am Macy Schuchart, a 25 year old female entrepreneur. Solo Founder and Owner of Ancient Bliss, an herbal supplement […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK SOCIOLOGY The Inflection Point Of Society If it feels as though every system on the planet—both man-made and natural—is at an inflection point, and that the decisions we make next could deliver us to long-term, sustainable prosperity or result in the collapse of our species, it’s because that is exactly what is going on. Right. This. Very. Minute. The good news is that the reason the […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK TECHNOLOGY Why Data Is The Future Of Healthcare A growing number of studies around the world show that healthcare is steadily evolving into a science based on the analysis of mass data, on detecting the signs that make it possible to know, evaluate and eventually treat a person’s health problems preventively. This is a transformation that will fundamentally affect the development of science […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK MONEY & FINANCE The Global Financial Markets During The Ukraine Crisis It’s two weeks since the world woke up to the dreadful news of a Russian attack to Ukraine. Notwithstanding the incalculable costs in terms of human lives, as well as human capital and physical infrastructure, we’ve seen much turbulence in the financial markets. So what has happened so far? Since markets tend to react to […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY POLITICS The Two Types Of Fairness Our differing notions of fairness is one of the biggest causes of the divide facing the world today. And yet, a better understanding of fairness may just well be the bridge that helps heal our world. “That’s not fair!”If you’re a parent, you probably hear that sentence on a regular basis. Fairness is one of […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Implications Of Theranos Theranos was, from the outset, too good to be true: Elizabeth Holmes met every stereotype of the time, a Stanford dropout who set up healthcare technology company Theranos in the early noughties and was able to attract powerful and influential investors, media advisors, and constantly announce major deals. The only problem was that the fundamental premise on which the company was built, […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK POLITICS The Truth About Fairness Our differing notions of fairness is one of the biggest causes of the divide. And yet, a better understanding of fairness may just well be the bridge that helps heal. “That’s not fair!”If you’re a parent, you probably hear that sentence on a regular basis. Fairness is one of those concepts that’s hard-baked into us […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK TECHNOLOGY The Rise Of Telemedicine? Telemedicine became increasingly popular during the lockdowns of the first months of the pandemic, as people were actively avoiding hospitals seen as dangerous or that were overcome with Covid patients and instead interact with their doctors on a regular basis by videoconference for a consultation of early symptoms or possible conditions, as well as to request prescriptions or […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK TECHNOLOGY The Evolution Of Blockchain & Its Secret It isn’t uncommon, when working on a new version of an open source project, to suffix it with “-ng”, for “next generation.” Fortunately, in their rapid evolution blockchains have so far avoided this naming pitfall. But in this evolutionary open source ecosystem, changes have been abundant, and good ideas have been picked up, remixed, and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK MONEY & FINANCE Does The Stock Market Extract Wealth? Many of us see the stock market as an investment engine for building companies and generating wealth, but the truth is that the stock market works more like an extraction engine. It depletes corporations while contributing to the concentration of wealth. The Stock Market is an Aftermarket Our distorted view of the stock market starts when we believe that buying shares in a publicly-traded company actually invests […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Hidden Structure Of Community Dynamics The world is a networked place, literally and figuratively. The field of network science is used today to understand phenomena as diverse as the spread of misinformation, West African tradeand protein-protein interactions in cells. Network science has uncovered several universal properties of complex social networks, which in turn has made it possible to learn details of particular networks. For example, the […] Written by Mayank Kejriwal August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Risk Of Space Junk? The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and damage to property. But given that we are launching an increasing number of satellites, rockets and probes into space, do […] Written by Monica Grady August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Hidden Structure Of Community Dynamics The world is a networked place, literally and figuratively. The field of network science is used today to understand phenomena as diverse as the spread of misinformation, West African tradeand protein-protein interactions in cells. Network science has uncovered several universal properties of complex social networks, which in turn has made it possible to learn details of particular networks. For example, the […] Written by Mayank Kejriwal August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Risk Of Space Junk? The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and damage to property. But given that we are launching an increasing number of satellites, rockets and probes into space, do […] Written by Monica Grady August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
What Makes People Willing To Risk Their Lives To Save Others? After an 18-year-old shooter murdered 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, distraught parents directed their rage at the multiple police officers who failed to enter the classroom where children were being shot. A teacher who survived his wounds derided the officers as “cowards.” It’s possible that a broken chain of command was more consequential than […] Written by Franck McAndrew July 29, 2022July 29, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. Its prime accomplishment was the expansion of our ability to abstract the world. Until then, pragmatism reigned, limiting most people’s thoughts and interactions primarily because we lacked the tools to extrapolate information, to wield it for things that lay beyond obvious […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked