OK, so there’s a vested interest … but its nice to see my alma mater, IMD, top of the list 🙂 Also, it is good to see HKUST high up the rankings (11). Here’s the list.
Category:7 Holonics and Life
Living in an upside-down world.
An excerpt from The Flip by David Rippe and Jared Rosen. The Bridge of Choice Imagine yourself standing on a bridge between two worlds. On one side of the bridge is an upside-down world. Why is it upside-down? It is upside-down because people have lost their intimate connection to the whole, and feel isolated and …
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Healthy living = longer living
Another scientific report showing that a balanced lifestyle with healthy eating habits (balanced diet and not too much) and exercise leads to a longer life is summarised here in Clean Living Slows Cell Ageing.
Your money or your life.
While traditional economists might deride the performance of the Japanese economy as it reports sluggishness, at the same time Japan reports a record high in the number of centenarians. Its another example of the trade-off between money and life. And as has been proven more money doesn’t make you happier. If you haven’t done so …
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Home, green home
It seems that the wave of sustainable initiatives is growing. As we accelerate our eco-village development, it appears to dove tail with a growing demand for green homes. In the latest Technology Quarterly by The Economist the subject is covered in Home, green home and Another green revolution. This article highlights the trend to new …
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The Big Bang is coming.
In two days CERN will switch on the Large Hadron Collider. This is a huge particle accelerator (27km) that has been built to simulate conditions at the time of the Big Bang. The principle objective is to explore the existence of the Higgs particle. The Higgs particle is complimentary to the Higgs field which has …
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A good reason to avoid men that won’t commit – they’re genetically flawed
Research just published shows that men with a certain version of a gene find it difficult to commit to relationships and to manage relationships. While this behaviour is fine in general, it is not positive for relationships, whether personal or professional. It is useful to know that the symptom of that dysfunctional gene is superficially …
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The king has taken off his clothes in the UK
The UK administration has made a politically dangerous and unusual admission: the economy is in a bad situation. Making analogy with the children’s story of The King’s New Clothes, this is equivalent to a courtier saying that those fancy new clothes that we’ve all been admiring aren’t really there. The language of the UK Chancellor …
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The population of Europe (the EU) joins the world’s poor.
The World Bank has revised its estimate of people in poverty – those living under $ 1.25 a day. It now estimates that there are 1.4 billion (1,400,000,000) people living in poverty up from its 2004 estimate of 985 million. That’s an increase of over 400 million – a number not far from the population …
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Numeracy is built in to the brain.
A study appearing in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that numberacy is built in to the brain, in a similar way that we have the ability to recognise colour. This finding should encourage those afraid of numbers that there is no need to fear them and embracing them will simply …
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