15 Oct Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement
When two doctors examine the same patient, why might they reach completely different diagnoses even though they trained at the same hospital, read the same research, and have the same years of experience?...
Business
14 Oct How These Companies Cracked the Four Day Work Week
Does a shorter work week actually make employees more productive, or is that just what companies tell themselves to feel better about the change?...
29 Sep Why Foreign Aid Doesn`t Work
Posted at 12:21h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Environment, Management, Politics, Polymatter, Problem Solving
Does sending money to a poor country actually make it less poor, or does it just make donors feel better about themselves?...
29 Sep What is an Ad Hominem attack?
Posted at 11:54h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Funny, Management, Politics, Popular Culture, Psychology, Wired
Have you ever watched someone "win" an argument without actually addressing a single point their opponent made?...
29 Sep This is why we can`t have nice things
Posted at 10:54h
in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Environment, Funny, Management, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Science, Technology, Veritasium
Can you name a product that was deliberately made worse after it was already perfected?...
29 Sep The Future of Augmented Reality
Posted at 10:02h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Environment, Fashion, Management, Other, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Science, Technology
Could your company use AR right now, today, and you just haven't thought about it that way yet?...
29 Sep Tech Monopolies; Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Posted at 09:51h
in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Last Night Tonight, Management, Politics, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Technology
Do you actually know which tech companies are considered monopolies under the law, and which ones just feel like monopolies in everyday life?...
29 Sep How these Startups growth hacked their first customers
Posted at 09:40h
in Business, C1 - Advanced, Economics, Management, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Slidebean, Technology
Could you get your first 100 customers without a product, a budget, or a pitch deck?...
28 Sep Beware online «filter bubbles» TED
Posted at 12:18h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Environment, Management, Politics, Problem Solving, Technology, TED
Do you actually know what your social media feed is hiding from you, or do you just assume you're seeing everything?...
28 Sep The 4 Things it Takes to be an Expert
Posted at 11:38h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Management, Other, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science
What does a chess grandmaster and someone who memorised 70,000 digits of pi actually have in common?...