Time Management How to have great meetings, according to 200 scientific studiesQuartz - Michelle ChengAmericans average six hours per week in meetings. And managers especially spend considerably more time in them. But attendees rate as many as half of the meetings they attend as “poor,” and organizations
Forests The World's Forest Animals Are Disappearing at a Terrifying Rate: Reportglobalcitizen.org - By Joe McCarthy and Erica Sanchez Forests depend on animals to thrive. The United Nations calls on countries to protect biodiversity and invest in reforestation efforts. You can join …
Aliens Why we haven't made contact with aliens: answers to the Fermi ParadoxBusiness Insider - Aylin WoodwardIn the summer of 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi posed a simple question to his colleagues over lunch: "Where is everybody?" Arguably, he said, in the 4.4 billion years it took for intelligent life to evolve
Iran Saudi Arabia says if attack launched from Iran, it would be an act...ReutersRIYADH (Reuters) - If an investigation shows that last week’s attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities was launched from Iranian territory, the kingdom would consider it an act of war, but Riyadh is currently
What Makes Iran Powerful? Think of It As a Fortress.nationalinterest.org - Stratfor Worldview The importance of geography lives on.Key point: History and geography guides Iran’s strategic necessities.To understand Iran, you must begin by …
Politics Tiny changes might seem insignificant. But they are how we save the planetThe Guardian - Peter BeaumontIn the heat of political debate, we forget sometimes the importance of individual acts There is a celebrated line in Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive, his bestselling of
Google Street View He's Trying To Fill In The Gaps On Google Street View — Starting With ZimbabweNPR - Chloee WeinerOne of the first things people do when they use Google Street View is check out the place where they live. So when Tawanda Kanhema moved to the United States in 2009, he looked up his hometown of Harare,
Labour Can End Brexit And This Tory Government At The Same Time. Here's How.HuffPost UK - Mike Buckley The ball firmly in Labour’s court. It just needs to make the right play, writes Mike Buckley There has rarely been more at stake in British politics. …
Surveillance Think only authoritarian regimes spy on their citizens?The Guardian - Kenan MalikAlmost half the world’s countries now deploy AI surveillance systems. So says a new report, The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance, from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Such technologies
China China needs to change way it finances economy, think tank saysReuters - Reuters EditorialHANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China needs to develop a better system for financing small businesses that drive innovation in the economy but currently struggle to access the funds they need for growth, leading
Katharine Gun Iraq war whistleblower Katharine Gun: ‘Truth always matters’The Guardian - Tim AdamsIt is not often that a person’s character is revealed in two sentences. But it is tempting to believe that is the case with Katharine Gun. In 2003, Gun was working as a translator of Mandarin at the government
Glucose What Are the Functions of Lactose?livestrong.com - Kirstin Hendrickson Lactose is milk sugar--it's much less sweet than table sugar, and occurs naturally in milk and other dairy products. While you can certainly burn the …
Cancer Cancer cells cannibalise healthy cells after chemotherapysciencefocus.com - Amy Barrett Chemotherapy can sometimes send cancer cells into a dormant state, which will engulf healthy cells to recover. Cancerous cells will consume nearby …
Bitcoin Bitcoin ‘Messiah’ Goes To War With The ‘Deep State’Forbes - Billy BambroughOne of bitcoin and crypto's oldest proponents, the founder and former chief executive of U.S. online retailer Overstock, Patrick Byrne, is going all-in on gold, silver, and cryptocurrencies. The "Mad as
Time-lapse Photography Hypnotic Time-Lapse Shows The Surreal Patterns of Antarctica's Tempestuous WindsScienceAlert - Carly Cassella Still, the ACC isn't just about destruction; it also makes room for life to flourish. Through upwellings of iron and other nutrients, this massive …
UK News 'I stole a plane to get out of the Navy'bbc.co.uk - BBC NewsFor two years the BBC's Emma Jane Kirby has been investigating the story of Sgt Paul Meyer, a homesick American mechanic who stole a plane from a US airbase in England in 1969, to fly home to his wife
Asteroids A Massive Asteroid Collision Once Caused Earth To Cool And Enter An Ice Age. Can We Replicate It?Forbes - Jamie CarterThe evolution of life on Earth sometimes depends on astronomical events. We know this from the case of the dinosaurs, which were wiped out by a 10 km asteroid or comet striking the Yucatán Peninsula in
Caffeine Does Caffeine Deplete Vitamin D in the Body?livestrong.com - Linda Tarr Kent Too much caffeine may be bad for bone health because it can deplete calcium. Overdoing the caffeine also may affect the vitamin D in your body, which …
Acetaminophen Why paracetamol should never be taken before lunchtimedailymail.co.uk - By Eve Simmons Roger Dobson for The Mail on Sunday More than 30 million of us take medication every day. For some it’s a single pill, but for others it’s several – some taken with food, some without. A …
Food Most humans have "seven ages of appetite"Inverse - Alex Johnstone You are what you eat. Do you eat to live or live to eat? We have a complicated relationship with food, influenced by cost, availability, even peer …
U.S. Air Force Stealth bomber for Area 51 crowd? U.S. military unit apologizes for...Reuters - Alex Dobuzinskis(Reuters) - A U.S. military unit apologized on Saturday and deleted a tweet that used the specter of a stealth bomber being deployed against any young people who tried to break into the Area 51 base in
Black History Sure, black people can be racist, tooCNN - By John Blake, CNN(CNN) — Comedian Chris Rock recently got into trouble after posting a meme with a picture of Betty White, the former "Golden Girls" actress. "The first thing people say when a mass shooting is announced,"
Behavior Both Environment and Genetic Makeup Influence Behavior | Learn Science at Scitablenature.com Early humans did not understand the mechanisms of inheritance, of DNA, or of the translation of genetic information into morphology, physiology, or …
Teeth Do any other animals have baby teeth and adult teeth?sciencefocus.com - Jules Howard Open wide! Most mammals have baby teeth which allows jaws to grow so no useless little gnashers are left for adult animals. Emphatically, yes: baby …
China Why Is China Building Africa?Forbes - Panos MourdoukoutasChina is all over Africa these days, building railroads, bridges, and ports, doing what European colonialists should have done long-time ago. On the surface, the answer is that China is investing in Africa
Space Exploration Russia Says It Will Keep Source of Hole (and Air Leak) on Soyuz Secret— But NASA Wants to Know: Reportspace.com - Elizabeth Howell Amid reports that the Russians will keep the cause of an air leak discovered at the International Space Station in 2018 secret, NASA Administrator …
Business Beer flows as overcrowded Oktoberfest opens in MunichAssociated Press - By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Associated PressBERLIN (AP) — The first keg was tapped, and the beer started flowing as the 186th Oktoberfest got underway Saturday in the southern German city of Munich. Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation These are Bill Gates' 13 favorite TED talks—and they'll make you feel smarter, wiser and more hopefulCNBC - Tom Popomaronis, Contributor TED Talks are one of the best online resources for anyone who loves learning. I try to dedicate some time every week to watching a few of them. But …
Science The Milky Way Has Giant Bubbles at Its CenterThe Atlantic - Marina KorenAstronomers have found radio-emitting structures jutting out from our galaxy’s black hole. Farhad Yusef-Zadeh was observing the center of the Milky Way galaxy in radio waves, looking for the presence faint
Kiribati Kiribati says national interest behind cutting Taiwan ties in favour of ChinaReuters IndiaMELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Pacific island nation of Kiribati acted in its best national interest when it severed ties with Taiwan and re-established diplomatic relations with China, the office of Kiribati's
ZxG Dayton mayor 'at a loss' for why Trump aired grievances following hospital visitCNN - by Faris Bseiso, CNN
ZxGEthiopia Ethiopia planted 350 million trees in a day. And its fight against deforestation does not stop thereweforum.org - Johnny Wood
ZxG Global financial bodies not fit for purpose, John McDonnell saysThe Guardian - Larry Elliott and Richard Partington
ZxG Last name first, first name last: Japan minister tells foreign media to get it rightThe Guardian - Justin McCurry in Tokyo
ZxGWhales 50,000-Pound Whale Tucks Scuba Diver Under Its Fin to Protect Her from Nearby Sharktheepochtimes.com - Jocelyn Neo
ZxGIcon version of the Flipboard logo Lauren O'Connell, Stanford, Chemical and cognitive ecology in poison frogs | Hopkins Marine Stationstanford.edu
ZxG Haiti's first private nature reserve will protect 68 species of vertebratesMother Nature Network - Noel Kirkpatrick
ZxG Reptiles affected by loud noise from Sheraton Hotel, says Chennai Croc Bankthenewsminute.com - TNM Staff
ZxGSalamanders Study shows lungless salamanders' skin expresses protein crucial for lung functionphys.org - Peter Reuell
ZxG China's $1 trillion infrastructure project could encourage the spread of invasive bird and reptile speciesBusiness Insider - Aria Bendix
ZxG Say snake! You can have a photoshoot with a slithery reptile in Vancouvancourier.com - Elana Shepert
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