Category: Lifestyle

Fri 12 Apr 2019: If an overflowing inbox is killing your productivity at the office, you are not alone. Well, maybe you are, but not in the way you think. A recent survey of more than 2,000 managers and employees in 10 different countries found that employees increasingly depend on technology to communicate with their […]

Thu 11 Apr 2019: NEW YORK (AP) — Fossil bones and teeth found in the Philippines have revealed a long-lost cousin of modern people, which evidently lived around the time our own species was spreading from Africa to occupy the rest of the world.  It’s yet another reminder that, although Homo sapiens is now the […]

Wed 10 Apr 2019: Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting its hot, shadowy edges where light bends around itself in a cosmic funhouse effect. Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers created the picture showing the violent neighborhood around a supermassive black hole, […]

Wed 10 Apr 2019: Michelle Pfeiffer’s new line claims to be free of so-called ‘toxic’ substances. But what are they? Here’s what you need to know about your favourite scents The world is, we seem to be warned by so many articles, full of chemicals that may give us cancer, nerve damage and maybe worse. […]

Tue 9 Apr 2019: Fast food chain faced backlash over ad showing westerners trying to eat new ‘Vietnamese’ burger with chopsticks Burger King has been forced to delete a “culturally insensitive” advert which depicted a westerner struggling to eat a burger with chopsticks, the latest western brand to be accused of mocking Asian food customs. The […]

Spending at least 20 minutes in nature three days a week significantly reduces stress, a recent study suggests. Researchers from the University of Michigan conducted a study in which participants were asked to spend an unspecified amount of time in nature three days a week for eight weeks. The findings, which were published in Frontiers […]

In today’s high-tech, high-speed, high-stress world, communication is more important then ever, yet we seem to devote less and less time to really listening to one another. Genuine listening has become a rare gift—the gift of time. It helps build relationships, solve problems, ensure understanding, resolve conflicts, and improve accuracy. At work, effective listening means […]

. An ‘epidemic of addictions’ could be to blame. Moments after Jimmy Kimmel walked onto the set of his late-night show, he noted that Wednesday was a special day. “Today is the happiest day of the year,” Kimmel said. That may be true for Finland, which for the second consecutive year was crowned the happiest […]

An Indian English word for underpants joins a host of Scottish insults after the dictionary crowdsourced regional terms nglish speakers from around the world have flocked to help the Oxford English Dictionary expand its coverage of regional vocabulary, with a new update including suggestions such as jibbons, chuddies and sitooterie. The dictionary launched its Words Where […]

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s Instagram will now let U.S. users to shop products directly from the photo sharing app by adding a ‘checkout’ feature on items tagged for sale, the company said on Tuesday. The move is in line with Facebook’s plan to monetize higher-growth units like Instagram, especially as the company’s centerpiece product, News […]