Posts by Marcellino Nehme
Forget London House Prices. Take a Look at Paris
Before a sex tape dashed Benjamin Griveaux’s hopes of becoming the next mayor of Paris, the preferred candidate of French President Emmanuel Macron could be found promoting his answer to the capital city’s increasingly dysfunctional housing market. What the average priced-out Parisian needed, according to Griveaux, was a handout of 100,000 euros ($108,380) to use…
Read MoreBest Bodyweight Exercises for Targeting Specific Muscle Groups
Want to know which bodyweight exercises are most effective for targeting specific body parts? This list of the best bodyweight exercises includes: All major muscle groups: abs, legs, glutes, chest, shoulders/arms, back Recommendations for all fitness levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced Exercise videos with detailed instructions Click here to read the full article.
Read MoreSolar and Wind Power Could Ignite a Hydrogen Energy Comeback
Hydrogen is flowing in pipes under the streets in Cappelle-la-Grande, helping to energize 100 homes in this northern France village. On a short side road adjacent to the town center, a new electrolyzer machine inside a small metal shed zaps water with electricity from wind and solar farms to create “renewable” hydrogen that is fed into…
Read MoreWhy Bill Gates thinks gene editing and artificial intelligence could save the world
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 years, and today he told the nation’s premier scientific gathering that advances in artificial intelligence and gene editing could accelerate those improvements exponentially in the years ahead. “We have an opportunity with the advance of…
Read More9 Inventive Ways to Identify and Process Your Emotions
I regularly share strategies to process our emotions on this blog because I want to highlight an important point: We can feel our emotions, even when we’ve spent years pretending they don’t exist or when we’ve let them dictate our decisions (and we fear their intensity). In other words, it doesn’t matter if you never…
Read MoreThe vast untapped potential of African economies
Africa today accounts for around 17% of the world’s population, but only about 3% of global GDP. These statistics not only attest to a failure to tap the continent’s developmental potential, but also highlight the tremendous opportunities and risks ahead. As long as Africa continues to lag economically, it will be a source of global…
Read MoreIf You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?
How much is a child’s future success determined by innate intelligence? Economist James Heckman says it’s not what people think. He likes to ask educated non-scientists — especially politicians and policy makers — how much of the difference between people’s incomes can be tied to IQ. Most guess around 25 percent, even 50 percent, he…
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