BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP 5 Reasons Why The 4 Day Work Week Won’t Work The four-day working week continues to gain momentum, with pilots taking place in the UK, Ireland, US, Canada and Australia. Over six-month periods between February and November, employees at participating businesses are working only 80% of their time but still receiving 100% of their salary and benefits. These schemes, which are being driven by non-profit coalition 4 Day Week Global, […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PSYCHOLOGY SCIENCE What Is Cognitive Immobility? Key Takeaways: If you have moved from one country to another, you may have left something behind – be it a relationship, a home, a feeling of safety or a sense of belonging. During this time, such individuals may seek consolation through the reconstruction of events or physical movement to the locations that they migrated […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK SOCIOLOGY TECHNOLOGY Can Twitter Really Bring Absolute Free Speech? Key Takeaways: Elon Musk is the planet’s number one billionaire. When free-market elephants like Musk or Jeff Bezos (who bought the Washington Post in 2013) take charge of major mass-media outlets, concerns are raised about the direction of free speech, which remains the essential ingredient of democratic participation. There can be no question that protest […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK TECHNOLOGY The Future Of Energy Key Takeaways: The dystopian nature of recent events should not be lost on anyone. The most important technology being developed today, therefor, is that which allows us to transition off of fossil fuels and to mitigate our impact on the planet. While some researchers do aim to make perovskite solar cells a replacement for traditional […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PSYCHOLOGY STRATEGY The Secret Psychology Of Shops Key Takeaways: You might think that you only buy what you need, when you need it. Why do shops like to move everything around? It increases feelings of shame and guilt, which in turn can lead to anxiety, stress and depression. This can happen when a consumer wants to continuously experience the feel-good “hit of […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK FINANCE The Global Financial Markets During The Ukraine Crisis Key Takeaways: It’s two weeks since the world woke up to the dreadful news of a Russian attack to Ukraine. Other peaks correspond to January 26, which was the date of Nato’s written response to the Russians, and the start of the invasion on February 24. According to our calculations from data that dates back […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK LIFESTYLE PSYCHOLOGY TECHNOLOGY The Challenges & Benefits Of Digital Distractions Key Takeaways: We are in the midst of a battle for our attention. Faced with the kinds of findings that arose from our research, it is easy to be nostalgic about a past that existed before the digital revolution. Despite the generational stereotypes of teenagers glued to their screens, a majority of middle-aged people said […] 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 TECHNOLOGY The Future Of Aviation Is Electric? Key Takeaways: Going electric would reduce the aviation sector’s considerable contribution to air and noise pollution, but its importance to the economies of so many countries, and the huge subsidies it therefore receives, means it has little incentive to decarbonize. What is needed for electric aviation to take off? The fundamental problem is the weight […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK PHILOSOPHY POLITICS SOCIOLOGY The Meat Paradox Key Takeaways: Most people eat meat and dairy with little thought of the consequences. Feeding the world’s appetite for meat costs the lives of billions of animals a year, and animal welfare is a concern on farms worldwide, with pigs, cowsand chickens often subject to overcrowding, open wounds and disease. In what is no doubt […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Surprising Discoveries About The Origin Of Life Key Takeaway: Recent research has focused on replicating the chemical reactions that constitute life as we know it in conditions plausible for early Earth around 4 billion years ago. However, the rise of experimental work has led to many contradictory theories. Some scientists believe that life emerged in deep-sea hydrothermal vents, where the conditions provided […] Written by Louise Gillet de Chalonge May 9, 2024May 9, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Science Of Ancient Egyptian Mythology Key Takeaway: A recent study has found an intriguing link between an Egyptian goddess, Nut, and the Milky Way. The Milky Way, a celestial body, is believed to be linked to Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky who swallowed the Sun and gave birth to it. However, attempts to map Nut’s body onto the […] Written by Or Graur May 7, 2024May 7, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Smartphones & The Source Of Our Anxiety Key Takeaway: Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, calls for action to limit teenagers’ smartphone access and address the mental health crisis caused by the widespread use of smartphones. Haidt cites the “great rewiring” period from 2010 to 2015 as a time when adolescents’ neural systems were primed for anxiety and depression by daily smartphone […] Written by Hugh Breakey April 29, 2024April 29, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Should TikTok Be Banned? Key Takeaway: President Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill in April 2024, allowing TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. If the law stands, TikTok will be blocked from any US app store or web-hosting service, affecting over 170 million US users, including 62% of Americans aged 18 to 29. Critics argue […] Written by Sarah Florini April 26, 2024April 26, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Being Thoughtful In The Age Of A.I. Key Takeaway: Concerns about AI’s potential roguehood and potential harm to privacy and dignity are a significant concern. AI’s algorithms, programmed by humans, are also biased and discriminatory. However, a psychologist’s research suggests that AI is a threat to making people less disciplined and skilled in making thoughtful decisions. Making thoughtful decisions involves understanding the […] Written by Joe Arvai April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Are Single People Happier? The Science Of Being Single Key Takeaway: A study published in the Journal of Personality suggests that long-term single people can be secure and thriving, possibly due to their attachment style. The research found that 78% of singles were insecure, with 22% being secure. Secure singles are comfortable with intimacy and closeness in relationships, while anxious singles worry about rejection […] Written by Yuthika Girme April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Greater Secrets Of Stonehenge Key Takeaway: A project involving archaeologists, astronomers, and photographers from English Heritage, Oxford, Leicester, and Bournemouth universities, as well as the Royal Astronomical Society, aims to study the lunar alignment at Stonehenge. The project aims to identify the layout of certain stones and the major lunar standstill, which occurs when the northernmost and southernmost moonrises […] Written by Fabio Silva April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education Key Takeaways: The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. In his writing, Flynn illustrates study after study, spanning nations and decades, in which modern educational gift of abstraction — a transcendent sign of intelligence, as we saw in Raven’s Matrices — has been […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022October 19, 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