IN AUGUST 1977, the novelist Howard Norman traveled to Churchill, Canada, a small town on the western edge of the Hudson Bay in Manitoba. He’d been employed by a Toronto museum to visit with a cantankerous resident there named Mark and transcribe his folk tales, nearly all of which described the calamities that befell Noah […]
Transport For London Sets Out Economic Wins From More Walking And Cycling In 29-Page PDF
Transport for London creates fat brochure on the overwhelming benefits of investing in walking and cycling schemes. Source: Forbes – Business – Carlton Reid, Contributor
Bank of America shares its playbook for dominating the stock market in a post-yield-curve inversion world
Associated Press Even if the US economy and stock market are on the verge of severe pain after the recent yield curve inversion, some parts of the markets are going to do better than others, according to BAML ETF strategist Mary Ann Bartels. Based on market data since 1965, she writes that some sectors perform […]
Better Ways to Predict Who’s Going to Quit
The right data can help manage turnover risk. Source: Harvard Business Review – Brooks Holtom
‘Stereotyping’ emotions is getting in the way of artificial intelligence. Scientists say they’ve discovered a better way.
Emotions are complicated. For example, facial expressions don’t map neatly to emotional states. A recent review paper from researchers at Northeastern and the California Institute of Technology found a massive disconnect between common assumptions about how emotions work and what actually happens when people express emotions and how they’re understood. This could lead to major […]
Amazon’s army of tweeting warehouse workers backfired spectacularly this week after a thread about working conditions went viral
Noah Berger/Reuters Last year, Amazon enlisted an army of fulfillment center employees to write positive comments about working in its warehouses. They are called "FC Ambassadors." But the program has backfired after going viral this week. The ambassadors were ridiculed for writing "propaganda for amazon" and some were even asked if they were being held […]