Are taller workers smarter?
Taller workers earn a substantial wage premium. Studies that go back to the middle of the last century attribute the premium to non-cognitive abilities, which are associated with stature and rewarded in the labor market. More recent research argues that cognitive abilities explain the stature-wage relationship.
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Quantum physicists are still very divided on how quantum mechanics is to be interpreted.
Quantum mechanics is real. We wouldn’t have superconductors, lasers, and many forms of computing and cryptography without its microscopically small probabilistic effects. But despite our laboratory certainty, what’s less clear is the role it plays in the fundamental nature of reality. And as a recent survey published by Anton Zeilinger at the University of Vienna has revealed, quantum physicists are still very divided on how it’s to be interpreted.
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China’s one-child law may be stifling its citizens’ innovation.
Development of a child can greatly be influenced by the number of siblings they have. But what happens when you have an entire nation of only children? China’s one-child law indicates that the policy may be stifling its citizens’ innovative instincts because single children born under the law there are less likely to be competitive, are more pessimistic, and less inclined to take risks, according to a new study. Those were the findings of researchers from Monash University in Australia.
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Instagram loses half it’s active users.
At the end of 2012, Instagram changed its Terms of Service (ToS) and it has proved far more calamitous for the Facebook-owned Photo app than first imagined. According to new data, Instagram appears to have lost half of its active users in a month.
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Free technologies libraries should be using.
There are a lot of free applications and software you can use in your daily life. Here is a list of some of the major free technologies that everyone could be using in their own libraries.
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We could double our food supply just by making farming, shipping, and cooking more efficiently.
By 2075 the global population is set to hit 9.5 billion. It is widely assumed the world will eventually run out of food. According to one UN study, we will need to increase agricultural production 70% by the middle of the century, if we’re to cater to all the expected bellies.
Continue reading… “Ending the global food crisis – we just need to make use of what we have”
The latest influenza activity update in the U.S. has just been released by the CDC and it’s not a pretty picture. First things first: GET VACCINATED. If you’re over six months old or someone you interact with on a regular basis is at high risk of flu complications (i.e. young, old, pregnant, immunocompromised, etc.): GET VACCINATED. This year’s flu virus has arrived early and it has health officials across the country bracing themselves for what could be the worst flu season in a decade.
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Opportunities in China have generated high expectations from the elders and potential spouses of this new professional class.
China produces 600,000 engineering graduates every year. A former Google product manager thought hiring a good engineer would be easy when he launched his startup, Julu Mobile, in China in 2011. He learned hiring the best wouldn’t be easy.
‘Blueberries best be eaten because they taste good, not because their consumption will lead to less cancer.’
Are people hooked on a fallacy that antioxidant is a byword for healthy? Is it because the truth is less appealing? A controversial Nobel laureate has stated in a peer-reviewed paper he described as “among my most important work”, that antioxidant supplements “may have caused more cancers than they have prevented”.
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Volkswagen recognized that our purpose as people is to lead better lives, not to consume their products.
The word “consumer” is an unavoidable term in marketing. But the label is counterproductive and misguided. The word is counterproductive and misguided and puts corporate interests over customer concerns. It presupposes a response you haven’t earned yet. Their purpose is not to consume your product.
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Even the best individual efforts of leaders and organizations can’t stack up against today’s complex and interconnected problems. They are collaborating to build a new civic infrastructure to advance their shared objectives. It’s called collective impact and it’s a growing trend across the country.
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David Heinemeier Hansson – Creator of Ruby on Rails
David Heinemeier Hansson: I’d be happy if 37signals is the last place I work. In an industry so focused on the booms and busts, I find myself a kindred spirit with the firms of old. Places where people happily reported to work for 40 years, picking up a snazzy gold watch at the end as a token of life-long loyalty.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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