In the cosmic equivalent of a hole-in-one, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) last week guided Mangalyaan, a 1365kg space vessel 680 million kilometres away from Earth and successfully placed it in […]
India Aims to Boldly Enter the Outsourced Space Race
Hamburg Now Has an Algae-Powered Building
Last spring, Arup, the design and engineering firm that brought the world the Centre Pompidou and the Sydney Opera House, unveiled their latest hypermodern architectural creation in Hamburg. From the outside, the […]
Cheapest-Ever Mars Mission
How India Achieved the Cheapest-Ever Interplanetary Mission to Mars Late Wednesday night, India made history by becoming the first nation to successfully enter Mars’s orbit on its first attempt. Indian Space Research […]
Western Luxury Fashion Set On Cracking Indian Market
NEW DELHI — A few months ago, a group of wealthy industrialists and other businessmen gathered in a plush Mumbai hotel suite to pore over a selection of John Lobb handmade welted […]
Inside the Arab Revolution
The 7R Future Leadership Institute* encourages readers to discover management and leadership books through the “Books for Brains” chapter. (*Between 2007 and 2011 the Institute carried temporarily the name ‘The Wall Street […]
Roekeloos
Ivan Van de Cloot brings a critical analysis of the largest banking crisis and European crisis of postmodern times. Seldom was so much endangered by so few. This book is about the […]
Richard Branson Is Now Letting Employees Take Unlimited Vacation Days For Any Reason They Want
Richard Branson announced in a blog post on Tuesday that the employees who work in his main offices will now have unlimited vacation days. According to CNN, the 160 or so people who […]
First Zero-G 3D Printer Is On Its Way To The Space Station
On Tuesday morning, a SpaceX Dragon capsule will berth with the International Space Station. Included in its nearly 2 and a half tons of cargo is a first for the final frontier […]
Children Gain Benefits From Field Trips To Farms, Study Shows
Farm visits are dispelling children’s deep ignorance about where the food they eat comes from and helping teachers deliver a wide spectrum of the national curriculum, a new study has shown. The […]
Human Genome Was Shaped By An Evolutionary Arms Race With Itself
New findings by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggest that an evolutionary arms race between rival elements within the genomes of primates drove the evolution of complex regulatory networks […]
Vivian Reding on Gender Equality – EREF – The Future Leadership Institute – Euro 2020
Four Ways To Become A Global Leader
“Think globally, act locally” advises a popular bumper sticker. The second part is easy enough to understand, but what does it mean to “think globally?” It is a truism to say that […]
Michael Moore’s 13 Rules for Making Documentary Films
During his keynote at the recent Toronto International Film Festival’s sixth annual Doc Conference, Michael Moore shared his advice to documentary filmmakers, beginning with the notion that they shouldn’t be called documentarians […]
Message of ISIS: Please Don’t Attack Us. (Column)
The official spokesperson of the Islamic State (ISIS), Abū Muhammad al-‘Adnānī ash-Shāmī, gave a long and disturbing speech. It is an interesting statement as it clarifies the state of mind of the […]
