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?...
B2 – Upper-intermediate
29 Sep Your Genes Affect Your Education
Posted at 12:47h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Environment, Management, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science
Do you think two siblings raised in the same home, by the same parents, with the same opportunities, should turn out equally successful?...
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 What is we could refreeze the Arctic?
Posted at 11:23h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Economics, Environment, Management, Other, Problem Solving, Science
Could we actually refreeze the Arctic, or is that just wishful thinking dressed up as science?...
29 Sep Think you have a «Type A» personality? Sorry, that`s fake news!
Posted at 10:30h
in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Braincraft, C1 - Advanced, Environment, Funny, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science
Do you actually know where the Type A / Type B personality theory came from, or have you just always assumed it was solid science?...
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 The AI that Creates any picture you want – Explained
Artificial Intelligence researchers investigating automated image capturing processes. Playing with images and text to generate novel scenes that don't happen in the real world...
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?...