As internet companies have challenged existing business models, from taxi services to hotels, they have rubbed up against existing regulations. They have increasingly lobbied to change them, just like their corporate brethren, but are doing so by recruiting unaware users to promote their cause, using apparently harmless, “one-click-and-you’re-done” methods. When India’s telecoms regulator sought public …
“I first noticed how well French business leaders dress in 2013”, when Publicis chief Maurice Lévy unveiled his doomed $35bn merger plan with the US group Omnicom, says Adam Thomson. Lévy strode out in a black suit, crisp white shirt and black tie: “it was understated but elegant and brimming with confidence”. His opposite number’s …
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Back home from Africa…… My wife asked for some brown bread at lunch in a restaurant in Namibia, a country ruled by South Africa until 1990. Our guide explained to her that until 1990 no white person would ever ask for brown bread, which had grit in it and damaged teeth. They ate only white …
The teaching of mathematics in the US and U.K is alleged to be in a huge crisis. So much so that the British Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that he wanted compulsory maths taught in State schools up to the age of 18. Maths is the subject that the illuminati use to judge the excellence …
If you want to remember something, take some vigorous exercise – but not immediately. A new study has found that exercise boosts people’s powers of recall, provided they leave an interval of a few hours between absorbing the new information and heading to the gym. Professor Guillén Fernández, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, the …
