Lifestyle topics
The problem of falling productivity in developed economies is not a mystery, as is often claimed. The root of the malaise is low investment, and a major cause of that is the practice (now ubiquitous in US and UK quoted companies) of “paying executives huge bonuses to reward short-term success”. Investment decisions are determined by …
In their book “Art and Fear”, David Bayles and Ted Orland tell of a ceramics teacher who announced on the opening day of class that he was dividing the students into two groups. Half were told that they would be graded on quantity. The pots they had made would be weighed. They would get an …
Local Republican legislators in 43 States are desperately trying to make abortion more onerous. By the end March this year they had introduced 791 provisions related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Nearly 42% of these provisions (332 provisions) seek to restrict access to abortion services; fifty-three abortion restrictions had been approved by a legislative …
12% of 16- to 24-year-olds think honey is produced by farmers squeezing bees. A fifth think fish fingers are made from the fingers of fish. 15% don’t know that lamb comes from sheep. 9% think potatoes grow on trees. ( Rowse/Daily Mirror) Could this possibly be true? I would like to think these young people are having the survey-takers on, teasing them. No …
You can do nothing on the web without filling in your email address and password. It gets time- consuming and boring, especially if you have a number of passwords (for security reasons) and you can’t remember which one to use. So why is it obligatory to do this? If you are contacting a bank or …
