What is happening to the climate on the planet? Scientists from 66 countries of the world decided to answer this question, who published a report based on data from 14 thousand scientific papers over the past 10 years

You don’t always have to come up with something completely new. If you take an old idea, such as vending machines or gambling houses, and present it in a new wrapper, success will not be long in coming

In a collectivist culture, to which Ukraine belongs, one can encounter all sorts of paradoxes. For example, if you have a choice between going to work or meeting a relative at the train station, the latter one will be much more important. That is, “personal” affairs and personal relationships will always be more important than “workers”

Julia Child made a real culinary revolution in the United States and the world, proving that cooking is a serious art form that deserves respect, that there is no bad or inferior profession if you are very passionate about it, and that your favorite business can bring both income and fame. and the joy of life

The higher the self-doubt and anxiety, the higher the likelihood that a person will become an adherent of extreme forms of patriotism and nationalism, religious or racial extremism. Uncertainty stimulates the search for “cognitive shelter” and group ideology, which provides simple and unambiguous answers: what is your place in the world, who are “they” and who are “we”?

The story of the richest Chinese woman is the success story of a woman who played on the men’s field by someone else’s rules and won. Zhang Yin put her secret of success into two phrases: “People see only waste in discarded paper. But behind this waste, I saw a real forest”

Conflicts between “ours” and “strangers” accompany humanity from ancient times to the present day. However, hostility towards “outsiders” is not only a social or cultural marker. Scientists believe that it correlates with difficulties in the logical analysis of reality, not too developed cognitive and intellectual abilities

The fame of Harland David Sanders’ chicken spread far beyond Kentucky, and the dish began to be called the state’s business card. In 1935, he received the rank of Colonel of Kentucky for Distinguished Service in the public life of the state from the hands of the Governor himself. So, not even being awarded the rank of a junior officer in the army, Sanders immediately became a colonel

Reducing the effects of brain aging requires continual learning — not just in early childhood, but throughout life. The brain is created by evolution in such a way as to constantly learn something new. Therefore, it is important to be able to switch from the usual everyday life to something else

She did not hesitate to be a woman and emphasized the importance of “sisterhood” not only during her studies or in everyday life, but also in business. Position and experience have shaped Indra Nooyi as one of the most powerful women in the world. She is confident even now that “the glass ceiling will collapse when women help each other to break through it”.

Behind every modern technology there is also culture, linking together our scientific knowledge, time and existence. And I must admit: the feeling that you are part of this grandiose world plot is really inspiring

If we assume that it is impossible to make a person happy with economic methods, then it undermines the “foundations of the foundations” – everything that modern Homo economicus believes in and is guided by in the era of “developed capitalism”. Fortunately, the situation was saved by the study of Americans Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, who undertook to refute the “Easterlin paradox”