Новости за 02.01.2017

An attempt to understand the link between eco-certification and wine quality.

Liz Wiseman delivering a keynote speech. After the publication of the bestselling book, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, and the launch of leadership research and development firm, The Wiseman Group, of which she is President, Liz Wiseman popped onto the scene as a leading management thinker, writer, speaker [...]

CBO projected that the exchanges would be stable by now and that the Medicaid expansion would be much smaller and less expensive. CBO significantly overestimated the effectiveness of the individual mandate and failed to anticipate how states would seek to maximize federal Medicaid funding.

Amazon might be the number one online retailer in the world, but that doesn’t mean everybody wants to hit their checkout button.

2017 calls for new skills in the art of business, leadership & politics. The 36 Chinese Stratagems for Psychological Warfare are all about misdirection, deceit & dominance. We need to be aware of this ancient leadership advice, whether we embrace it or not. Our adversaries surely are.

If you're married or in a committed relationship of a Certain Age, you may feel like you're slowing down. The good news is, you're not alone. (You just feel that way.) Cartoon by Shannon Wheeler.

Russia's natural gas giant developing new ways to avoid Ukraine as transit route into Europe.

With U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Congressional Republicans looking to repeal the Affordable Care Act without an immediate replacement, pressure is mounting from doctors and the public at large to maintain coverage . A letter to Congress from groups representing 400,000 physicians and medical students “urged Congress not to increase [...]

Finland is just starting an experiment which has a lot of us economic types rather excited. Yes, I know, sad, isn't it, that we might get excited over something that seems so trivial. For what Finland is doing is testing out the core idea of a universal basic income. Instead [...]

When the University of Southern California ("USC") and Penn State University kick off this afternoon at 5 P.M. in the 103rd annual Rose Bowl Game, the USC Trojans expect to have the services of their star wide receiver, JuJu Smith-Schuster, who has caught 63 passes for 781 yards and nine [...]

Private cabana on the beach at Four Seasons Costa Palmas (Photo by Jim Dobson) Landing by private jet into the sparkling clean and updated Cabo San Lucas airport is a breeze. A private VIP area is set apart from the crowds of tourists and outside the lounge awaits the SUV with [...]

Mexico is having a bit of consumer resistance to yesterday's price hikes in the gasoline and diesel market in that country. However, the government is doing exactly the correct thing--things should be sold for what they cost to produce. It's entirely possible that some people are too poor to pay [...]

Creating a solid estate plan is a wonderful idea – but the process shouldn’t end when your plan is in place. Periodically reviewing your plan ensures it accurately reflects your current goals and requirements. Make sure you revise your estate plan if yourpersonal or financial situation changes, like: Divorce. Once your [...]

Part one of a series about how the Amazon marketplace is rapidly becoming a cesspool of fraud, counterfeit products, and all out scams.

Pokémon GO was the biggest game of 2016, but if it wants to stay a powerhouse in 2017, it's going to have to add and change some things. Here are eight ways the game must evolve in the new year.

Wearing headphones while doing any kind of physical exercise can be a nuisance. Those earbuds never seem to stay put in my ears -- regardless of the size. And I finally found a completely wireless pair I loved several months ago, before losing them. jaybird's Freedom jaybird's X3 But then I discovered [...]

More than two centuries ago Thomas Malthus predicted that food production growth would fail to keep up with population growth and that the world would suffer from mass starvation. He couldn't have been more wrong. In his native Britain, and in her former colony across the Atlantic, our major drivers [...]

This year was a decent year for some interesting and unexpectedly good Japanese games. While we are still lagging compared to the varied output from studios back in the PS2 days, the situation is definitely improving and here are some of my highlights from this year.

'Hidden Figures' is (fingers crossed) primed for a solid wide release debut this Friday.

An early 2017 threat of severe weather in the United States is a good opportunity to clarify what "severe weather" actually means. It may surprise you.

Whether it is a gentleman's agreement or just conscious parallelism, there is something very odd about this year's college football bowl schedule. Just two of the NCAA's 41 college football bowl games overlapped with an NFL telecast. The two 2016-17 college football bowl games that overlapped with an NFL telecast were [...]

2017 will be a critical year for most people and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. Here are five habits to break to increase the time and focus needed to make the best decisions possible.

I decided to second-guess Warren Buffett by finding out what scientists think of his approach to developing habits. So as the year 2016 came to a close I got on the phone with renowned expert on the neurophysiology of habit formation, Ann Graybiel to find out what she thinks.

We've another of those distressing urban myths being propagated at present. Or perhaps, given recent events, we should be calling this fake news? The point being that just about everyone on the left side of the political aisle keeps telling us that the tax amnesty of 2004 which led to [...]