Something interesting is happening here. What we might have once described as junk is now fetching large amounts at auction, bought to decorate the thousands of new and renovated apartments built in recent times. Fifty years ago people were picking up similar stuff from op shops like the famous Tempe ... Read More »
There are chemical differences in how male and female brains regulate aggression in response to stress, Georgia State University scientists suggest. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team found that male and female brains process serotonin and arginine-vasopressin, or AVP, ... Read More »
Released prisoners may be less likely to commit violent crimes if they’re prescribed certain kinds of psychiatric medications, a new study suggests. These medications can affect someone’s mental state. They include antidepressants, antipsychotics, psychostimulants, drugs to treat addiction and antiepileptic drugs, the researchers said. The study authors looked at information ... Read More »
Even with repeated cleanings, it’s virtually impossible to remove all contamination from robotic surgical instruments, a new study suggests. “One of the top priorities for hospitals is to treat patients safely and with minimal risk of infection,” said study author Yuhei Saito, an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo ... Read More »
Employers want to hire people with 21st-century skills and they can’t find enough qualified candidates. The problem, says Charles Fadel, Founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign, is that our education system “is biased for college entrance requirements via tests such as the SAT which are partially obsolete, and never ... Read More »
Microsoft wants kids playing Minecraft in class, and it’s hoping that schools will not just let them, but support them. It’s launching a version of Minecraft today called Minecraft: Education Edition that includes some classroom tools and a way to roll out accounts to every student in a class or ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that voters had a fundamental right to know about the educational background of people contesting polls and that election of a candidate could be set aside for making false declaration on educational qualifications in the nomination paper. The ruling came when a ... Read More »
Alibaba Group, the massive Chinese online retailer, posted stronger than expected fiscal second quarter earnings on Wednesday morning and the stock is popping. The Chinese online retailer posted earnings of 5.26 Chinese yuan per share against analyst expectations of 4.69 Chinese yuan. Revenue came in at 34.3 billion yuan against the 33.9 ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s adult children have spent a decade doing business with politically connected foreign firms—a role that will present potential conflicts of interest whether he wins on Nov. 8 or continues to pursue politics if he loses. Those whom Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have worked with ... Read More »
Tamil Nadu dropped six places to rank 18, the lowest among developed States, in the business reforms ranking for 2016 released by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and the World Bank on Monday. The ranking comes as a setback to Tamil Nadu which is the most industrialised ... Read More »
India’s global rank in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business ranking came in at 130 out of 190 countries. It has moved up only one notch since last year. To that extent this progress is disappointing. The improvement in this global rank has been a rallying cry of the government, ... Read More »
In 2011, Nicholas Carr summed up Facebook’s business model like this: “The desire for privacy is strong; vanity is stronger.” Carr spent the past dozen or so years making similar proclamations of high-tech heresy, questioning and often criticizing Silicon Valley billionaires and their armies of engineers and programmers for casting ... Read More »
