Author: EconLearner
These are the types of workplace conversations that can spark heated disagreements between employees, he says Steven L. Franconeriprofessor of management and organizations (courtesy) at the Kellogg School who studies how people can have more intelligent and calm disagreements. He has a theory about why emotionally charged arguments seem to be on the rise.”We’re used to assuming that disagreements must be imbued with anger and hatred, and that the person we’re disagreeing with is either being unreasonable or deliberately misleading,” he says. “We need to learn how to have better arguments.”Enter Point Taken, a game developed by Franconeri that models…
I have spent much of my life thinking about how to help people reach their full potential. As a heart and lung transplant surgeon, as a policy maker focused on health and education, and now as president of both The Protection of Nature (TNC) and SCORE (the State Partnership for Education Reform), one question connects all of these experiences: How can our children learn and thrive in a world that’s getting warmer, with weather that’s less predictable than ever?Senator Bill Frist, MD opens SCORE’s Connecting the Dots Symposium on The Environment’s Impact on Student Success.SCORE / Mark Mosrie 2025This question…
In this brand new episode of Men’s Locker Room, we have Sanjay Kathuria! Sanjay Kathuria is not just another finance bro—he’s …
RUESSELSHEIM, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 22: Children play video games on smartphones while attending a public event on September 22, 2012 in Ruesselsheim, Germany. Smartphones, with their access to social networks, high-resolution screens, video games and Internet access, have become commonplace among children and teenagers around the world. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)Getty Images”I didn’t need a law.” This is restaurateur extraordinaire Danny Meyer (Gramercy Park, Union Square Café, Shake Shack, Blue Smoke, etc.) from his memoir, Table setup. Meyer was referring to smoking in restaurants. While then-mayor Michael Bloomberg voted to ban smoking in restaurants across the city in 2002,…
This new and compact Clevetura CLVX S keyboard has a trackpad zone on its surface. CLEVETURA In the desktop era we relied on a keyboard and mouse to navigate the screen. Those were the days when laptops were largely out of reach, but these days most people are used to using a laptop as their primary computer. The problem with laptops is their cramped keyboards and tiny trackpads that can be difficult to type on and a bit of an ergonomic nightmare. For example, you have to take your fingers off the keyboard to use the trackpad just to move…
A Waymo robotaxi climbs a hill in San Francisco.Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Waymo plans to start offering paid robot rides in London next year, without a human back-up driver, as the Alphabet unit tries to establish itself as a global leader in self-driving. The Mountain View, California-based company will begin operating a fleet of Jaguar I-PACE electric SUVs in the British capital sometime in 2026, which commuters can hail through the Waymo app. Moove.ioan African mobility fintech company, will handle fleet maintenance and service in London, just as it does in Phoenix and, soon, Miami, Waymo…
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – FEBRUARY 24: People from the US-based non-profit organization avaaz light candles next to the teddy bear at the Schuman Roundabout, the heart of the EU region on February 24, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. Two years later, the Western media have forgotten them. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThe forced transfer, indoctrination and transformation of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia into loyal enemies of their homeland is not just a war crime – it is an attack on the very idea of innocence. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children were removed from their families, their names changed, their…
Teri Mills, her husband and their grandkids.TerryTeri Mills still strongly remembers the napkin with sugar cubes.In the US in the early 1960s, a way to administer the oral polio vaccine was throwing it into sugar. Mills was one of the many kids who stayed around her school for this sweet lifesaver. “My mom, I remember shouting with relief and they couldn’t raise us quickly to get these vaccines,” Mills recalls. “There was great joy.”It was happy because the small sugar cubes offered protection from a life -threatening life -threatening disease. In the 20thth century, polio paralyzed or killed half a…
The battle for healthcare subsidies has common sense solutions.agingPeople with Obamacare insurance no longer receive health care today than a decade ago, before the program began. But the cost of the program continues to increase.Democrats want more dollars of taxpayers to pay for these expenses. Republicans resist. Both parts have to make voters a favor and consider reasonable reforms instead of throwing good money after bad.The problem with Obamacare is not difficult to understand. It was designed to force people to buy a product that few people would buy on their own if they had to pay the full price.Initially…