The Science Behind Why People Gossip—And When It Can Be a Good Thing

Gossip. All humans partake in some form, despite the age-old adage, “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Whether it’s workplace chatter, the sharing of family news or group texts between friends, it’s inevitable that everyone who talks, well, talks about other people. In fact, a 1993 observational study found that male participants s…

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Jeff Bezos Successfully Launches Himself to Space

Give Jeff Bezos this: When he builds a rocket, he rides the rocket, strapping his own mortal hide into a seat and test-flying what he’s developed before inviting paying passengers aboard to make the same journey. “If it’s not safe for me, it’s not safe for anyone,” Bezos said in a video segment released by Blue Origin, his private rocket company, before Tuesday mor…

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The Youngest Negotiating Team at COP26 has a Message for Other Countries

When Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez went to his first round of U.N. climate negotiations as part of Panama’s delegation in 2015, his colleagues told him not to talk about his age, in case it made other countries’ representatives take him less seriously. At the time, he was just 22. Now, aged 29 and the lead negotiator for Panama at COP26 in Glasgow, he won’t shut up about …

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There’s Still One Part of the Paris Agreement That Hasn’t Been Finalized. She Wants to Change That

Countries have long agreed that emissions could be cut faster by allowing carbon trading—where one nation or business pays for projects that reduce emissions in another country, and then counts those reductions in their own targets. These carbon markets would funnel funds to the projects that cut emissions most efficiently—potentially reducing costs of meeting targets by up to 79%…

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By the bootstraps- Handmade Zimbabwe shoes an unlikely global hit

Founded in 1993, the firm has recently ramped up production to just 30 pairs a day, all of them made meticulously by 14 employees in a one-room workshop in the second city Bulawayo.The city — a former industrial hub — has suffered the brunt of the country’s collapse since 1980 that has left behind mass unemployment and a landscape of derelict warehouses and ghostly abandoned factories.

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Black Friday fuels online fashion and footwear sales in the Netherlands

In Q4 2018, online retailers of apparel and footwear in the Netherlands saw sales increase by 22.4%, compared to the same period in 2017คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. However, retailers operating physical stores saw sales slip by 4.3% in the last three months of 2018.The growth can largely be…

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American artist Rashid Johnson creates jewelry for a good cause

Exhibited for the first time in 2015 at The Drawing Center in New York, the figurative portraits of the series “Anxious Men” question the perception and representation of black men in contemporary American societyคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Themes that have become particularly salient …

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December fashion spend rose, but less than hoped for say key retail reports

The credit and debit cards giant said that consumer card spending grew 12.2% overall last month, but the impact of Omicron hindered some final Christmas preparations.Spending on non-essential items grew at a slower 11.5% compared to November’s 18.3% spurt. The company said that as well as concerns over Omicron, this could have been due to consumers starting their festive shopping earlier in N…

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Forget store traffic and bag count – Gauging retail performance in an online world

Major shifts in consumer behaviour and preferences have forced Cohen, who works for market research firm NPD Group, and other retail analysts to approach their jobs very differently than two decades ago.”If you were to try and replicate research methodology, or even store observation, in today’s world, you’ve got a problem,” Cohen told Reutersคำพูดจาก Read more