11 Nov How Gaslighting Manipulates Your Mind
Can you tell the difference between someone genuinely correcting you and someone making you doubt your own memory?...
B1 – Intermediate
11 Nov Why Everything Takes Longer Than You Expect
Posted at 09:54h
in B1 - Intermediate, Braincraft, Business, Economics, Management, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology
Why do you almost always underestimate how long a project will take, even when you have done that exact type of project before?...
18 Oct Inside LEGO House, Denmark’s tribute to the famous brick
What does it take for a toy made of plastic bricks to become the world's most valuable toy brand?...
18 Oct How do governments make money?
Posted at 12:24h
in A2 - Pre-intermediate, B1 - Intermediate, Business, CNBC International, Economics, Management, Politics
If your company made a loss last year, did it pay zero taxes? Or is the picture more complicated than that?...
18 Oct How McDonald’s Really Makes Money
If someone told you McDonald's is not really a fast food company, would you believe them?...
14 Oct How will covid-19 change travel?
Did Covid actually kill business travel, or did it just expose how unnecessary most of it already was?...
14 Oct The IKEA effect: How Does Labor Lead to Love?
If you built it yourself, does that make it better than it actually is?...
14 Oct The History and pros and cons of changing the clocks
Does your country change the clocks twice a year, and do you actually know why?...
14 Oct What is the Dark Web?
If someone told you the internet you use every day is just the surface, would you know how deep the rest goes?...
04 Oct How China is using automation to reshape its economy
Posted at 11:29h
in B1 - Intermediate, Business, CNBC International, Economics, Problem Solving, Science, Technology
If China's working-age population is shrinking, why hasn't that slowed the economy down yet?...