“Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job.” That was how The Onion famously announced Barack Obama’s election as president in 2008. Rather than a feel-good story trumpeting the historic occasion, the satirical publication […]
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Why The French Want Less Income Inequality Than The American
Why the French want less income inequality than the Americans: The role of just-world beliefs in cultural differences in preferences for performance pay or redistribution. INSEAD, the leading international business school, and the […]
Exploring Africa’s Goma Region: Diary: Day 13
The 7R Future Leadership Institute has been following Belgian Floris Buter from the Virunga National Park on a week long field trip in Africa, in order to gather topography data for a hydro-power project. The […]
Global Innovation Index 2015: Switzerland, UK, Sweden, Netherlands, USA Are Leaders
Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United States of America are the world’s five most innovative nations, according to the Global Innovation Index 2015, while China, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, […]
Professional Experiences Abroad Make You More Creative
Professional work experiences abroad can be a critical catalyst for creativity and innovation within an organisation, according to new research from management researchers at INSEAD and Columbia Business School. The research, published […]
Oct 13, 2015: Too Valuable To Die? The Ethics Of Science And Scientists Going To War
Topic: Too Valuable to Die? The ethics of science and scientists going to war Speakers: Silke Ackermann, Elizabeth Bruton, Nigel Biggar Event date: 13 Oct 2015 Event time: 19:00 – 21:00 Venue: […]
Having The ‘Right’ Connections Only Gets You So Far
Working with a highly reputable corporate leader helps managers get promoted to senior positions in the short term, but such a career boost is balanced in the longer-term as competitive job markets, […]
Turning Clothing Into Information Displays
Researchers from Holst Centre (set up by TNO and imec), imec and CMST, imec’s associated lab at Ghent University, have demonstrated the world’s first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED […]
Oct 8, 2015: Lecture Thomas Piketty At KU Leuven, Belgium
Thomas Piketty gave a lecture within the framework of the Gaston Eyskens Chair 2015 at the KU Leuven, Belgium. Follow his lecture “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” via the below recording of the […]
Scientists Discover How Tectonic Plates Collide
Researchers have discovered how tectonic plates first collided in one of the world’s largest deep sea trenches. One of the biggest questions yet to be answered about plate tectonics is how do […]
NASA Releases Plan Outlining Next Steps In The Journey To Mars
NASA is leading our nation and the world on a journey to Mars, and last week the agency released a detailed outline of that plan in its report, “NASA’s Journey to Mars: Pioneering […]
Our Brain’s Response To Others’ Good News Depends On Empathy
The way our brain responds to others’ good fortune is linked to how empathetic people report themselves to be, according to new UCL-led research. The study, published today in the Journal of […]
3D-Printed Nerve Regeneration Pathway Helps Regrow Complex Nerves After Injury
A national team of researchers has developed a first-of-its-kind, 3D-printed guide that helps regrow both the sensory and motor functions of complex nerves after injury. The groundbreaking research has the potential to […]
Darwin On A Chip: UT Researchers Develop (R)evolutionary Circuits
Researchers of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology and the CTIT Institute for ICT Research at the University of Twente in The Netherlands have demonstrated working electronic circuits that have been produced in […]
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