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Yale Study Shows Monkeys Aren’t Fooled By Expensive Brands
In at least one respect, Capuchin monkeys are smarter than humans — they don’t assume a higher price tag means better quality, according to a new Yale study appearing in the open-access […]
Science Meets History: Case Closed After 529 Years
An international research team led by Dr Turi King from the University of Leicester Department of Genetics provides overwhelming evidence that the skeleton discovered under a car park in Leicester indeed represents […]
The Future of Print: Newspapers Struggle to Survive in the Age of Technology
The news industry has had a rough decade. Print readership is steadily declining, newspapers are closing, and journalists with decades of experience are being laid off. In response, major newspapers have made […]
1 December Rosa Parks Day
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake‘s order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white […]
Print Is Not The Future, But It’s Not The Past Either
Once a year the Newspaper Association of America pulls together its overall performance figures, so once a year we can see more clearly than ever which way the US press industry (hugely […]
Unesco Recognises Belgian Carillon Culture
Intangible Heritage: Safeguarding the carillon culture from Belgium inscribed on the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices Paris – The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, meeting at UNESCO […]
Cost Leadership Is Rarely A Driver Of Superior Profitability
“The prevailing managerial bias towards cost efficiency is seriously harmful to corporate performance”, by Jules Goddard, London Business School Overall cost leadership is not a viable strategy. This is the key discovery to have […]
Scientist Identifies New Dinosaur Species
A new species of horned dinosaur has been identified from fossils held in a Canadian museum for 75 years. The fossils had previously been classified as belonging to a different dinosaur group. But […]
First Female Italian Astronout In Space
The changeover from Expedition 41 to 42 on the International Space Station is now complete. Almost two weeks ago, on 10 November 2014, three members of the space station’s crew returned to […]
Improving Education via YouthSpeak
Improving Education With 17,000 Youth Voices by Gordon Ching, Chief Digital Officer for AIESEC Flashback to when you were just starting university, completely lost and confused about what to do with your life […]
What Was On The Menu At The First Thanksgiving ?
Today, the traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes any number of dishes: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, candied yams, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. But if one were to create a historically accurate feast, consisting […]
The Guide To The Future Of Medicine
The Guide To The Future Of Medicine by Bertalan Meskó Enormous technological changes are heading our way. If they hit us unprepared, which we are now, they will wash away the medical system […]
President Obama Honors America’s Top Scientists and Engineers, Launches New Steps to Cultivate Tomorrow’s Innovators
Today, in the East Room of the White House, President Obama awarded National Medals of Science and National Medals of Technology and Innovation to 19 of our nation’s top thinkers, discoverers, […]
The Future Leadership Institute 