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10 cost-effective employee training programs 2. In-house coaching 6. Book clubs 7. Internal blogs 10. Video-based learning During times of economic uncertainty, the budget for employee training programs is one of the first to be cut. At the same time, the need for learning and development has never been ...

Intelligence tests What’s IQ good for? Not fit for purpose Best bird competition Long ago, when the rocks were young and the winds were new, a Nightingale, a Peacock, and a Falcon gathered together to decide which one was best. “Let us sing a beautiful song,” the Nightingale said, ...

Universe expansion: A rubber band analogy The Hubble tension What explains the Hubble tension? The universe is expanding. This is a well-established fact and one that scientists have known for nearly a century. It was first proposed by Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann in 1922 and again independently in 1927 ...

If you’ve ever driven a car, you know how important it is for your tires to grip the road. As long as your tires aren’t slipping along the road, you remain in control of your vehicle; when you turn your steering wheel, the angle at which your tires grip ...

Dr. Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University.

What causes rheumatoid arthritis? Why this bacteria? The future of rheumatoid arthritis treatment Rheumatoid arthritis affects 1 in 100 people worldwide. It causes inflamed, painful and swollen joints, often in the hands and wrists, and can lead to loss of joint function as well as chronic pain and joint ...

Most of us experience a worsening in memory and other mental abilities as we get older. A minority of people are resilient to the effects of aging, however. These so-called “SuperAgers” retain their cognitive abilities well into old age and even outperform people who are decades younger than them ...

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Excerpted and adapted from Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational. Johns Hopkins University Press. ©Michael Shermer, 2022. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. In 1997 I appeared on the late G. Gordon Liddy’s radio talk show while on a media tour for my first book, Why People Believe ...

There’s an old saying that adversity makes you stronger. Real-life shows that’s not always true, but the adage highlights an evolving debate among scientists about resilience. After traumatic events and crises such as child abuse, gun violence or a pandemic, what explains why some people bounce back, while others struggle ...

Medical researchers have connected a painful condition to diabetes. Getty Images/iStockphoto A condition that keeps people from straightening out their fingers has been connected to diabetes. “Trigger finger,” as it’s called, is when one or more fingers — often a thumb or ring finger — get bent into the ...

Video games are often maligned by parents and the media, but a recently published study of 2,217 nine- and ten-year-olds found that kids who played at least 21 hours of video games per week performed better on tests of cognitive performance involving response inhibition and working memory than kids ...

John Lubbock is an investigative journalist and filmmaker from London.

A (rushed) history of Rushdie Blame the victim Faux outrage A convenient bogeyman The moral of the story Salman Rushdie has reemerged following an assassination attempt in August of this year. The attack left him blinded in one eye and without the use of one of his hands. Free ...

Right now, at this very moment, the total amount of entropy contained within the observable Universe is greater than it’s ever been before. Tomorrow’s entropy will be even greater, while yesterday, the entropy wasn’t quite as great as it is today. With each passing moment, inevitably, the Universe inches ...

The scary clown has become a horror staple. Featuring Art the Clown as the main villain, Damien Leone’s new film “Terrifier 2” is so gruesome that there are reports of viewers vomiting and passing out in the theater. And every Halloween, you’ll see vicious clowns stalking haunted house attractions ...

This article was first published on Big Think in October 2018. It was updated in October 2022. Halloween is upon us. The leaves are fading in certain parts of the land and nightfall creeps into the day’s domain. It’s the time of the season where spectral guests are afoot ...

Understanding the interior structure of Phobos could be key in solving the mystery of its origin.

DENMARK-Although being vital to life on Earth, the magnetic field is not something we can see or hear. However, researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have turned magnetic signals detected by ESA’s Swarm satellite program into sound – and the result is very frightening for something that should protect ...

How snails saved Taiwan Laws of human action Continuity versus contingency History by numbers Sometime around 193 B.C., the celebrated Roman general Scipio Africanus led a delegation from the Eternal City to modern-day Syria to tell its king, Antiochus III, to stay out of Greece. For the first time ...

Picking your nose may be connected to diseases like dementia, new research has found. Getty Images/iStockphoto Don’t go digging for gold in your golden years. New research suggests that picking your nose could increase your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. Bacteria can travel through the nasal ...

The dead star's spectral nature definitely fits the mood of the season.

Dr. Marc Milstein specializes in taking the leading science research on brain health and presents it in a way that entertains, educates, and empowers his audience to live better. His presentations provide science-based solutions to keep the brain healthy, boost productivity, and maximize longevity. He earned both his PhD ...

Looming over Earth lies a great extinction-level threat: asteroid impacts. Earth, as well as all planets and moons with rocky surfaces, has experienced a large number of collisions from objects of extraterrestrial origin. Any impact that’s massive and energetic enough, in principle as well as in practice, could cause ...

The following is an excerpt from THE AGE-PROOF BRAIN: New Strategies to Improve Memory, Protect Immunity, and Fight Off Dementia, written by Dr. Marc Milstein and published by BenBella Books in October 2022. We know that our brains are often not the same age as our chronological age. For ...

Future slaves The reverse Turing test The wrong side of history In 2010, the EU issued a legal directive entitled, “On the protection of animals used for scientific purposes.” It outlines and explains which animals ought to have certain protections, and it mandates that 27 EU states must follow ...

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Supercontinent cycles New tectonic modeling Australia takes center stage “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” If there’s one Yogi Berra quote that geologists should frame and hang in their office, this is it. But the warning will go unheeded. Those rock-huggers just can’t resist the urge ...

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