Posts by Marcellino Nehme
5 Stoic Lessons On Time Management
American jazz icon Miles Davis once said, “Time isn’t the main thing, it’s the only thing.” Seneca once wrote that it’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it. We all envelop ourselves in various forms of escapism, hoping either to postpone our responsibilities or avoid them altogether.…
Read MoreWhat Happens in Your Brain When You Make Memories?
Maybe it’s a hazy snapshot of your first time riding a bicycle. Or the ability to recite the Pythagorean theorem. It could be as simple as that phone number you scrawled on a napkin before it landed in the trash. Whatever shape they take, our memories help define who we are — and what it…
Read MoreWe Need Real Empathy
Empathy is not sympathy, compassion, pity, or a host of other words that often get mistaken for empathy. Real empathy is the full expression of both feeling what others are feeling and understanding what those feelings mean. Interpersonal empathy requires us to become aware and acknowledge the physical feelings we are having when watching others…
Read MoreTesla Overtakes Toyota as the World’s Most Valuable Automaker
Tesla Inc. displaced Toyota Motor Corp. as the world’s most valuable automaker, underscoring investor enthusiasm for a company trying to transform an industry that’s relied on internal combustion engines for more than 130 years. Shares of Tesla, which have more than doubled since the start of the year, climbed as much as 3.5% in intraday…
Read MoreCOVID-19: This is when life will return to normal, according to the experts
After second-guessing everything from hugging our loved ones to delaying travel, there is one big question that everyone is likely thinking about: will we ever get back to the status quo? The answer may not be very clear-cut. Today’s graphic uses data from New York Times’ interviews of 511 epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists from…
Read MoreWhy Deep Investment In Automation Results In More Jobs
“We can see that industrial robots increase employee wages and increase productivity and that the number of jobs for low-skilled employees, and also to some extent for the medium-skilled, decreases, while job opportunities for the highly skilled increase,” the authors say. “The process of machines replacing human labor is not something that is new,” they say. “It’s been…
Read MoreEmergency Virus Spending Will Push Global Debt Ratio Above 100%
Emergency spending by governments to tackle both the health calamity and economic fallout from the coronavirus is set to push the global debt ratio above 100% for the first time. The jump in the burden this year alone is forecast by the International Monetary Fund to be close to 19 percentage points, dwarfing the increase…
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