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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- New World Bank report highlights the acute threat of climate change to poor people.
- This threat can be contained through rapid and inclusive development that takes into account climate change, targeted adaptation measures, and emissions reductions efforts that protect the poor.
- Without such action, it warns climate change could push more than 100 million additional people back into poverty by 2030.
How you handle the first 10 minutes of your workday can largely determine how productive and effective you’ll be the rest of the day.
“Getting off on the right foot isn’t just important with relationships, it’s important with the start of any workday, as well — particularly busy ones,” says Michael Kerr, an international business speaker and author of “You Can’t Be Serious! Putting Humor to Work.” Read More
On Tuesday, the four-year-old startup, which divides and rents out large office spaces to other businesses, said it would commit to hiring union represented janitorial staff in the two cities.
The company additionally said in a press release that it work with union contractors to rehire former Commercial Building Maintenance — its current maintenanceprovider — cleaners “whenever possible,” after many lost their jobs when CBM terminated its New York contract with WeWork in August. Read More
If you’re going to learn anything, you need two kinds of prior knowledge:
• Knowledge about the subject at hand, like math, history, or programming
• Knowledge about how learning actually works
The bad news: Our education system kind of skips one of them, which is problematic, given that your ability to learn is such a huge predictor of success in life, from achieving in academics to getting ahead at work. It all requires mastering skill after skill. Read More
Apple is teaching customers about 3D Touch, one of the new features in the iPhone 6S, by using a giant table in Apple Stores that responds to touch.
iPhones are laid out on the table — which is actually one giant screen — in two rows. Tapping on the iPhone screen can create ripples and allows users to interact with the virtual fish. Read More
People are living longer. Can you give us a sense of the scale of the changes that this is bringing? Read More
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