Curated articles from various sources.
The Economist reports on the growing problem in regard to higher educational institutions in America: They represent declining value for money to their students. While at first glance, American higher education seems to be in good health, in actual fact it is not what it used to be. Actually, there is growing anxiety in America about…
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Skeptic Michael Shermer debunks myths, superstitions and urban legends — and explains why we believe them. Along with publishing Skeptic Magazine, he’s author of Why People Believe Weird Things and The Mind of the Market. In this fascinating TED talk, he poses the thought-provoking question of why people see the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich or…
It’s no secret that the tech industry has a long history of drama, squabbles, and rivalry in general. The 80’s saw IBM and Apple take center stage in the squabble spotlight, and then Microsoft and Netscape entered into fisticuffs in the 1990’s. Fast forward a few years, and what we have today are four large…
“Gemba za oknem” (Lean Management), by Joseph Paris published in the October/November 2012 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish. Download PDF
Those Americans who receive health care insurance through their employees may need to get comfortable with digging even deeper into their pockets. Over the next 18 months, businesses are expected to implement healthcare plans requiring higher deductibles. Large up-front, out-of-pocket costs are anticipated to become mandatory before any insurance coverage kicks in. This is because…
We’ve come a long way in the last few years. From petroleum fueled cars we moved on to developing the electric car. Then we set out to experiment with electric cars featuring hydrogen-fueled cells. For a while, these seem to have done fairly well. However, in testing (around the Los Angeles area), a number of…
