College prepares you for your career, but the curriculum may not be enough to prepare you to work in the gig economy. While education is important, you’ll need more than your degree to succeed. Read more in Fast Company These…
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Mexicans work far longer days than anyone else. Germans, on the other hand, clock up the least hours. Greeks work the longest hours in Europe, at an average 2,035 hours per year. At the other end of the spectrum, German…
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Today ethos is widely proclaimed in the retail sector. But the key driver of this transformation has not been ethical entrepreneurs, so much as a connected and empowered public, demanding that modern business does right by society and by the…
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We Just Got More Evidence For The Strange Link Between Sugar And Alzheimer’s By Peter Dockrill
12 April 2018Views: 1,053People with high blood sugar stand to experience worse long-term cognitive decline than their healthy peers, even if they’re not technically type 2 diabetic, new research suggests. Other studies have previously shown this kind of link between diabetes and the cognitive…
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Here are 5 predictions for the future of our cities By Teemu Alexander Puutio
11 April 2018Views: 1,508More than half of us have chosen to live in cities, a figure that is expected to rise to 70% by 2050. In economic terms, the results of urbanization have been nothing but impressive. Cities are accountable for 80% of…
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Mastercard-backed Dynamics Inc has created a payment card device that stores all of the information from multiple credit cards in one place.The Wallet Card is a battery-powered, IoT connected payment card with a 65,000 pixel display on the front and…
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How A Bank Of All The World’s Genetic Codes Hopes To Save Nature By Ben Schiller
9 April 2018Views: 2,763Amazon’s plants and animals contain bounties of genetic code and potential biomimetic blueprints that could one day be used to create new drugs and textiles, artificial intelligence, and energy systems In the future, there may be less need to cut…
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Children are not coming into school with the hand strength and dexterity they had 10 years ago. “Children coming into school are being given a pencil but are increasingly not be able to hold it because they don’t have the fundamental…
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Two technological revolutions are shaping the dawn of the 21st century: the development of the internet and the shift towards a carbon-free global energy system. The latter received a boost in 2015, when the G7 pledged to phase out fossil…
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This New Kind of Battery Can Be Fully Charged in Less Than 30 Seconds By Mike MCrae
5 April 2018Views: 964A novel approach to an energy storage device run on an aqueous electrolyte can go from flat to fully-charged in just 20 seconds, making it perfect for portable electronics that frequently need a quick boost. Read more in Science Alert …