Новости за 08.01.2017

A wine’s taste may be subject to the lunar calendar—or maybe not.

On the first morning of my third year of medical school, I put on my short white coat and walked onto the OB/GYN ward with a combination of terror and excitement. A few weeks later I was driving up Lake Shore Drive in rumpled scrubs. I had been on call [...]

People will quit before they ask for what they want or tell you what is wrong. That’s why knowing what to look for is so powerful. Is it time to check in, before your top performers check out?

In the first half of today's AFC wildcard game between the Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh running back Le’Veon Bell rushed the ball 17 times for 99 yards and a touchdown. On the Steelers third touchdown drive, Bell carried the ball on every play of the team's 83 yard [...]

Bentley University commissioned a study to find which business skills are growing in demand. By looking at millions of job listings posted on more than 40,000 online job sites, jobs analytics firm Burning Glass determined which skills saw the biggest increases in demand when comparing 2011 to 2015.

Volcanoes can kill you in plenty of horrific ways, but it's hard to beat the spectacular and terrifying fire of a pyroclastic flow. So what happens to you when you find yourself on the business end of one?

Who will win Best Original Song and Best Original Score tonight at the Golden Globes? Here are some predictions.

It is a standard part of just the usual standard economics that trade deficits do not matter. We have Adam Smith telling us that nothing is more ridiculous than concerns about the balance of trade--and we should note that near all of modern economics is either footnotes to Smith or [...]

The Division is heading toward a PvP focused 1.6 patch, and it's sparked a debate among fans about whether it's time for a PvE Dark Zone. It almost certainly is, and PvP in general has been holding The Division back for far too long.

(Photo credit should read ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images) China is eager to see Russia join The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, according to a recently published article in Globaltimes, though the Russian embassy in Islamabad denied the reports. “Russia’s participation in the CPEC, including the use of the Gwadar Port, could give a [...]

The comeback sales for the British singer/ songwriter, 25, are being led in his home country, where he is also set for the record books.

Lower level and middle mangers are key to employee engagement and customer experience. Here's a simple and cost-effective way that they, their teams and their organsiations can help them learn, improve and develop and how it will drive real employee, customer and business results.

Maroon 5 keeps popping up on my Pandora stations, so artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning still have a ways to go. Even if AI can beat us at Go. But, wow, that aside, the technologies showcased at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (#CES2017, actually the 50th annual, sponsored by the [...]

Tax reform is a top priority for the Republicans in Washington. Regardless of how much faith they have in the Laffer Curve, lowering tax rates will lead to a drop in revenue. Economic growth can be boosted better through simplifying the tax code than by cutting rates.

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded is about to cleave off of Antarctica and drift into sea.

The quantity of fake news is now reaching crisis proportions, and the problem is only getting worse. Furthermore, the challenge of misinformation reaches well beyond the realm of public discourse, impacting the core of business as well.

Boeing delivered its 500th 787 Dreamliner to Avianca in December, the fastest delivery schedule ever for a widebody aircraft. But an aerospace expert says demand for the 787 could start to decline in 2020.

Getting acclimated to the VR experience at CES 2017. It really didn’t look like much, at first glance it was just another Virtual Reality demonstration at one of what seemed like a million booths at this year’s CES show. However, as I took hold of the controller (think handheld joystick) after [...]

A leading biologist argues that the standard approach to research in evolution needs an overhaul.

Three years ago this week, Major League Baseball's labor relations faced a crossroads. Neutral arbitrator Frederic Horowitz had justupheld the one-year suspension of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez for violating the league's joint drug agreement. Alex Rodriguez, in turn, decided tochallenge his suspension in court -- suing [...]

The Affordable Care Act could cost more than 2.5 million jobs, the Commonwealth Fund says, and hospitals say most of them will be nurses and their other workers.

The formula for productivity is total output divided by total input. When you can reduce the what it takes to create value, you benefit tremendously. Here are 6 reasons to focus on increasing your productivity and 5 steps to make it happen.

Marissa Mayer stumbles and bumbles her way to a $200 million payday

Shutterstock How can you tell how well you’re doing financially? You can’t compare yourself to others, because you never know what’s going on behind the scenes. The “successful” people you admire may actually have a negative net worth! As a financial planner, I have the privilege of taking a good hard [...]