By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Today, Google is launching People Management Essentials on Coursera — a new Specialization developed using the same principles, practices, and ethos the company uses to train its own managers. As AI accelerates …
Today’s video shows red blood cells flowing through a capillary network in a rat’s skeletal muscle. At this resolution, our eyes can follow the paths of individual red blood cells squeezing through each capillary, as well as the faster blur …
Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its prime, has preserved decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin. Parasites can reveal a lot about an ecosystem, since …
Here’s a silly argument I made the other day. It has since fallen ill with virality, the best/worst fate that can befall a social media post. Before I get to the FAQs (frequently asked questions), FVOs (frequently voiced objections), and …
American is a tricky word. It can refer to everyone and everything of or pertaining to all the countries of North America — and potentially South America as well — but it’s commonly used with specific regard to the United …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What makes us tip? A new study explores two main motives: genuine appreciation for the service and conformity with social norms. Those who truly value the service tend to tip above the standard rate, while conformists …
Struggling to concentrate? Maybe your brain is having a wash Jenny Evans/Getty Images We all know it can be hard to concentrate when you are sleep-deprived, but why does this happen? It may be because your brain is trying to …
Thomas Bloom’s erdosproblems.com site hosts nearly a thousand questions that originated, or were communicated by, Paul Erdős, as well as the current status of these questions (about a third of which are currently solved). The site is now a couple …
The UK’s new Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act – commonly referred to as Martyn’s Law – introduced a legal duty for qualifying organisations to take steps to protect the public from the threat of terrorism. A key part of this duty …
A few quick math/physics items (OK, mostly math…): Contributions to next year’s ICM have already been written up by many speakers, and posted on the arXiv. Try this link to find them. There’s a wonderful new result from Kevin Costello …
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