Tech is changing the traditional college experience. Here’s what’s happening now, and what’s on the horizon.
Media coverage of higher education often focuses on the increased cost of college that places its graduates into an overload of debt with no decent job at the end. What’s often missing in that coverage is how higher education globally is developing technological innovations that are tremendous catalysts of change.
Swamped at work? Accountants go through that every year. Here are their time-management strategies.
Accounting can be a great profession for work/life balance overall. However, as any accountant knows, that is not the case during “busy season” (often from January to March for auditors, or into April for those dealing with taxes). Long hours are the norm. When I did a time diary project a few years ago looking at professional women with families, I found that few people worked more than 60 hours a week, but of those who did, the majority turned out to be accountants in the midst of their busy season ramp-up.
Every gadget you casually toss helps destroy the planet—and lives. It’s time we think about the lasting effects of what we’re building and buying.
In February, a new smartphone launched in India that cost the equivalent of $3.60. The quickly dropping price of electronics, along with rising incomes around the world, means that there will soon be many more gadgets in the market. And when a newer, cheaper one comes along in a year, many more of them will end up as electronic waste.
If you think you’re exempt from online harassment, just watch what these guys went through with one wrong post.
Tweeter beware.
The latest findings from Glassdoor reveal some predictable positions and some surprises.
You may not be one of the people who believes that money can buy happiness; however, a recent Glassdoor survey revealed that as many as 7 in 10 respondents (68%) said that salary and compensation are top of mind when considering whether or not to accept a new job.
Chronicle, a new concept from the design consultancy Artefact, is like a doctor in your pocket.
Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, arthritis—chronic conditions such as these account for 84% of health care spending. Yet many are preventable. An estimated 40% of all premature deaths can be attributed to lifestyle, such as smoking and inactivity. How can the health care system shift focus (and dollars) from acute to preventative care?
The move is not only good for the chain’s image, it will boost the company’s bottom line.
Whole Foods plans to install rooftop solar power farms on 100 of its retail stores and distribution centers, the New York Times reports. The move will see nearly a quarter of the company’s properties covered in solar panels.
And thousands have already expressed interest in the first trip.
Jeff Bezos has announced that his private space travel company Blue Origin is planning to begin taking tourists to space in just two years, reports the New York Times. The Amazon founder and CEO made the comments on Tuesday at the first-ever tour of Blue Origin’s Washington state headquarters.
Regimes like Russia and China are doing a better job at locking down the Internet than early web experts thought possible.
Not so long ago, techno-utopians and mainstream politicians agreed that trying to censor the Internet was essentially impossible.
The storage device would be small enough to fit on a shelf, yet power 100,000 homes.
GE has announced it is working on a way to use CO2 pollution to make new types of solar batteries that could each power up to 100,000 homes. CO2 is the main contributor to climate change, and is released into the atmosphere when coal is processed at power plants. Currently environmental procedures mean that some CO2 from these plants is captured and stored, so it’s not released back into the atmosphere. But the question has always been: What do you do with the stored gas?
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