Speech Materals

Speech Materals

454 Healthy eating habits that work according to scientists

With options as varied as the Paleo diet and the 21-day challenge, there's a fad diet for practically everyone. But as f...
Speech Materals

453 Should Governments Tax Unhealthy Foods and Drinks?

With obesity and diabetes at record levels, many public health experts believe governments should tax soda, sweets, junk...
Speech Materals

452 Sweden is third most ‘digital’ nation in the EU

Sweden was dubbed third best in the EU for 'digital performance' on Thursday, but was warned it could soon see itself ou...
Speech Materals

451 These daily habits will make you look and feel more confident

Wondering how to build your self-confidence? Week in, week out we have guys arrive here in Los Angeles for residential b...
Speech Materals

450 12 Strange-But-True Health Tips

Many methods to improve your health are pretty straightforward: to lose weight, eat less and exercise more; to boost you...
Speech Materals

449 7 Quick Brain Exercises You Can Do Right Now

Each of these brain exercises is designed to test different aspects of cognitive function. Do them a few times a week, a...
Speech Materals

448 Aging, indebted Japan debates right to ‘die with dignity’

Retired Japanese airline employee Tarou Tanzawa said he hadn't thought much about his own death until his 84-year-old mo...
Speech Materals

447 Harvard drawn into race battle at US universities

Harvard will no longer call its dormitory leaders "house masters". It is the latest controversy in months of protests at...
Speech Materals

446 Trouble Falling Asleep? Street Light Glow Impacts Sleep Hygiene, May Be Keeping You Awake

Light has a profound impact on how we sleep. Bright sunlight pouring in through the windows in the morning can act as a ...
Speech Materals

445 Taxing democracy: Why easy decisions can be hardest to make

Democracies are good at all sorts of things, but not always at making decisions.There's a perfect example of that here i...
Speech Materals

444 4 reasons all your best employees are leaving

It’s time to face facts: As business leaders, we’re failing our employees. A 2015 LinkedIn survey revealed that the No. ...
Speech Materals

443 The 5 countries set to benefit the most from the next industrial revolution

The World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year was abuzz with talk about the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The idea...
Speech Materals

442 How to become an expert conversationalist

Conversation is becoming a lost art. We all know, from our own experiences, that young people today connect more on soci...
Speech Materals

441 Would you trust a robot to save your life? People will blindly follow instructions from a machine even if it leads them the wrong way

Many fear intelligent droids could become our overlords, like The Terminator. And yet a study has shown we would still t...
Speech Materals

440 5 types of emotional intelligence all great leaders have mastered

Emotional intelligence is widely known to be a key component of effective leadership. The ability to be perceptively in ...
Speech Materals

439 Tokyo’s future skyline could include a mile-high skyscraper

Rising like the Emerald City is a building that will not only dwarf the world's tallest skyscraper -- the Burj Khalifa i...
Speech Materals

438 What a world with 5G will look like

Your smartphone will have a faster connection, for sure. But that just scratches the surface of what 5G could be capable...
Speech Materals

437 Japan is running out of people

Japan’s population decreased by nearly 1 million people over the past five years according to the country’s latest censu...
Speech Materals

436 5 workplace laws your employer might be violating

Do you know what rights you have at work? You might assume that your employer understands labor law and always follows i...
Speech Materals

435 Why Singapore has the smartest kids in the world

It's a world-class teacher's pet -- a straight-A student that's top of the class: Singapore is officially the country wi...
Speech Materals

434 9 Ways To Make Speaking In Public Less Of A Nightmare

Talking is usually a breeze—so much so that it's hard to go an hour without finding yourself yammering about something. ...
Speech Materals

433 More Japanese are early birds, fewer read newspapers: survey

Japanese are getting more active in the early morning, according to a survey by NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Instit...
Speech Materals

432 10 Things you should never say to your boss

Honesty is the best policy in the workplace — but like any rule, this one has a few exceptions. "It's important to be ca...
Speech Materals

431This Country Was Named the Best in the World

Using an assortment of 75 criteria that look at a country’s progress in areas such as entrepreneurship, cultural influen...
Speech Materals

430 Signs it’s time to quit your job

We've all had bad days at the office. Maybe even a bad week or two. But if you can't remember the last good day you've h...
Speech Materals

429 5 unexpected ways your relationships can affect your health

New research has provided more evidence that relationships affect health. The researchers examined data from four large-...
Speech Materals

428 “Regular Pharmacists” fee system proposed

A government panel on Wednesday proposed establishing a system of “regular pharmacists” to manage in an integrated fashi...
Speech Materals

427 Why your boss shouts and screams: Researchers say it could be because they are ethical

If your boss is pleasant one day, but lashes out the next, they may suffer from a phenomenon known as moral licensing. R...
Speech Materals

426 China: North Korea will ‘pay a price’ for its recent behavior

China's foreign ministry on Monday urged the United States and North Korea to sit down with each other face-to-face and ...
Speech Materals

425 Scientists get ‘gene editing’ go-ahead

UK scientists have been given the go-ahead by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos. It is the fir...
Speech Materals

424 Here’s how long a person can survive without water

A human can go for more than three weeks without food (Mahatma Gandhi survived 21 days of complete starvation), but wate...
Speech Materals

423 5 reasons why giving your best employee more work is a terrible idea

It’s all too tempting to assign your over-performing employees the most important tasks; you trust their work will be of...
Speech Materals

422 Being a couch potato SHRINKS the brain: Failing to exercise in your 30s and 40s is linked with dementia and early death

A major study concluded that people with poor levels of physical fitness in their 30s and 40s were likely to have smalle...
Speech Materals

421 13 jobs that are quickly disappearing thanks to robots

Thanks in part to automated mail sorting systems, postal workers may be all but obsolete in the not-so-distant future. B...
Speech Materals

420 France becomes the first country in the world to BAN supermarkets from throwing away unsold food and force them to donate it to charities

France has decided to crack down on food wastage by becoming the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from thr...
Speech Materals

419 Are you smart enough to get into Mensa? These are the questions you’ll have to answer to get invited

The IQ society was founded in 1946 in Oxford, England, by Roland Berrill and Lancelot Lionel Ware. Its mission is to "id...
Speech Materals

418 Take the Buckingham Palace virtual reality tour

Thanks to Google, you can enjoy a 360-degree visit to this and other historic and natural landmarks. In the future, the ...
Speech Materals

417 Monks delivered via Amazon as role of Japanese temples fade

In Japan, where communal ties to local Buddhist temples are fading, families have in recent years been able to go online...
Speech Materals

416 Putin advisor warns Moscow may hit Google, Apple and Facebook with a ‘technology tax’ to level the playing field for Russian companies

Silicon Valley internet giants Google, Apple and Facebook may be hit by a significant Russian tax bill as the country mo...
Speech Materals

415 It’s time for these 6 ridiculous science ‘facts’ to die

Who hasn't shared an amazing science fact only to feel embarrassed later on, when you find out the information was wrong...
Speech Materals

414 Here’s what to do when you realize your boss secretly hates you

If you're getting the sense that's the case, you'll want to do everything you can to turn things around. "The relationsh...
Speech Materals

413 Zika virus: Up to four million Zika cases predicted

Three to four million people could be infected with Zika virus in the Americas this year, the World Health Organization ...
Speech Materals

412 Ten Things The Driverless Generation Will Never Experience

Like it or not, the driverless car is coming. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mercedes-Benz repor...
Speech Materals

411 Seasoning makers initiating children into the world of ‘washoku’

Traditional washoku cuisine is catching on abroad, yet in the country of its origin its future prospects are not so tast...
Speech Materals

410 How to stick with your exercise resolution: Drink beer

Beer, or any alcohol for, when consumed in moderation, may be a brilliant motivator to keep people working out. Scientis...
Speech Materals

409 19 signs your coworkers secretly hate you

While some coworkers may have no qualms about letting you know they despise you, others will try to remain diplomatic an...
Speech Materals

408 Valuing your time over money may be linked to happiness

Would you prefer a more expensive apartment with a shorter commute or a less expensive apartment with a long commute? Th...
Speech Materals

407 6 Surprising Signs of Dementia

Not feeling like your usual, upbeat self? Your cloudy mood may be a sign a bigger storm is brewing. Depression appears t...
Speech Materals

406 The top 10 skills that will be in demand by all employers by 2020

In fewer than four years, employers will seek employees with very different skill sets than they do today. In fact, on a...
Speech Materals

405 ‘Ninth planet’ may exist in solar system: US scientists

A previously unknown giant planet may have been discovered lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system, US scientis...