News

• (2013) China’s parliament: has 83/3000 Billionaries, who after campaigns against extravagance are even more convinced of the need to be within the political tent [1]

“This is largely due to the firm’s unusual approach to two dimensions of corporate life. The first of these is time. In an era when executives routinely whinge about pressure to produce short-term results, Amazon is resolutely focused on the distant horizon. Mr Bezos emphasises continual investment to propel its two principal businesses, e-commerce and Amazon Web Services (AWS), its cloud-computing arm.” from

Interesting

• The suffix -path means

  1. Used to form nouns indicating someone with a particular disorder
  2. Used to form nouns indicating someone with a particular capability, as a type of remedial treatment

• There aren’t really “different learning styles”, most people learn similarly [1][2]

• Hospital Unions exist, and doctors are being outsourced

• CRISPR was really hard to get published

• The Zeigarnik Effect “is the tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued and left incomplete”

• There’s fields called music cognition and affective computing