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Shamefully, Google’s auto-suggest AI offered only two thoughts here. ‘There’s no monopoly on common sense’ is most irritating to hear. ‘There’s no monopoly on good ideas’, less so. Especially in a business setting. Even more bizarrely, look what happened when, a few minutes later, I re-typed: Magically

> #flextension The latest Brexit buzzword. Proving yet again that those eurocrats are canny negotiators. This week’s output provides not one deadline date, but two. Each conditional on certain actions. The main aim (Plan A) acceptance delays to the farther horizon. Failure, and the closer one takes over instead.

Birmingham University tested 400 schoolchildren [https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2019/03/chatterpies-haggisters-and-ninuts-could-help-children-love-conservation.aspx] . The aim; find the best way to teach children about the importance of wildlife. “Does the type of information affect the attitudes to that species and its conservation?” Two types of lesson focused on

The wonders of stem cell therapy are spreading across all sorts of new areas of remedy. Once fatal conditions are now getting cured yet there appears a potential brake on treatment. I caught that one first-time donor, who’s contribution directly saved a particular leukemia patient, revealed that many in

🔖2 min read (or is it 3?) I learn Facebook recently wanted their staff concentration levels better matched to task attentions required. They employed psychologists to observe how their current workforce navigate their day. I did wonder on echoes of the (in)famous Hawthorne experiments. An Aussie professor called Elton

There may, or may not [https://www.dw.com/en/boeing-737-max-a-plane-of-compromise/a-47852944], be an issue with the ‘ai’ that flies Boeing’s latest iteration of the world’s best selling plane. Two fatal disasters in short order. Last year off Indonesia, and this week East Africa. 346 deaths [https://news.

I was once in a salesroom when a manager apologetically, dismissively you could say, glanced at a league table scrawled on a whiteboard (which tallied new self-booked first meetings) and said “the boss likes their visuals”. Now, these kinds of logs may not always be quite the winner they might