The Aurora Australis attempting rescue in the Antarctic

The video below is of the Aurora Australis attempting a rescue of the cruise ship ( Akademik Shokalskiy ) and Chinese ice breaker (Xue Long)...

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Interview and Present Better using EXCITEMENT!

Harvard researcher and assistant professor of Business Administration, Alison Wood, has conducted several experiments with Harvard Univers...

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So what is this Bitcoin thing then?

So what is this bitcoin thing then? And why and how do people mine it? And why has it become so exciting, so quickly? It is a virtual p...

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Dr Sally Shaw writes "Not enough sports women at the top yet"

Dr Sally Shaw, a University of Otago sport management lecturer, talks about how we can  get more women into sports governance.   ...

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US Meterology global warming survey results are in

A stack of American Meteorological Society (AMS) members decided to survey the AMS members on what their views were for the cause of clima...

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iTunes "Grr" fixed: how to select all items in a playlist

I don't know about you, but iTunes usually works stupendously well. Until it doesn't. And then trying to find a work around can be...

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Bill George, former Medtronic CEO on Capitalism

Bill George is a revolutionary CEO. Egalitarian, visionary and culture-oriented. When Bill became CEO of Medtronic in 1989, it was a USD$1...

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A Few Useful Career Theories

Careers theory has been developing since the end of the 19th Century, formally commencing with the work of Frank Parsons in Boston, USA (190...

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Colenso BBDO & Burger King: creating sticky pre-roll YouTube ads

Pre-roll YouTube ads are annoying, right? Unless you think creatively. And Colenso BBDO has done that for Burger King NZ, where the pre-ro...

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New Zealand - least corrupt nation on earth...

Transparency International releases its Corruptions Perceptions Index annually, and the results are now out for 2013. Analysing 177 countrie...

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Google Glass and Security

Wow - I thought Google Glass was cool, and then loads of people started getting tetchy about security. Yep, I completely get their conce...

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Apostrophe Catastrophe

I am obviously on a language bent this week; first currying favour, and now the apostrophe. The OED published a blog post in May this ye...

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Currying Favour

Michael Quinion, a god of English language proportions (!) received a query in his World Wide Words Newsletter - number 848 - from Patrick M...

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The UK’s NatCen 2013 Results on Women & Work

I ran across the UK’s NatCen survey this week, and thought I would pick out those trends which most related to women and work, and relay t...

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