Speech Materals 224 World’s most expensive city is …
Move over Tokyo. Singapore has dethroned the Japanese capital to become the world's most expensive city in 2014, accordi...
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Speech Materals 223 8 Ways To Boost Productivity And Break Out Of A Lazy Slump, Backed By Science
The start of the workweek could only mean one thing ? the commencement of the countdown to 5 p.m. on Friday. In the days...
Speech Materals 222 Robots will be smarter than us all by 2029, warns AI expert Ray Kurzweil
By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart even the most intelligent...
Speech Materals 221 Read a novel in 80 minutes? There’s an app for that
If you've always wanted to read War and Peace, but thought you'd need to be some sort of superhero speedreader to make i...
Speech Materals 220 Is the ‘5 second rule’ for picking up dropped food safe?
The ‘five second rule’ suggests that food dropped on the ground is still safe to eat if it is picked up after five secon...
Speech Materals 219 How 19 Tech Titans Target Healthcare
Healthcare accounts for about 10 percent of global GDP, according to the World Bank. In the United States, where spendin...
Speech Materals 218 Factory meat, cruel and bad for us
Here's a thought to chew on: America's most intractable problems all double back to our collective mistreatment of anima...
Speech Materals 217 Cellphone Radiation: 5 Ways To Protect Yourself From Your Phone’s Potentially Harmful Emissions
Out of the seven billion people in this world, approximately six billion are avid cellphone users. Mobile phones have co...
Speech Materals 216 A Japanese Superhero Is Apparently Destroying Malaysia
Authorities in the country have banned an Ultraman comic book for "subverting public security" and undermining morals be...
Speech Materals 215 6 common renter mistakes
In the stress of hunting for that perfect apartment, it can be easy to slip up and get saddled with an onerous lease. Do...
Speech Materals 214 Would YOU eat sausages made from BABY POO? Spanish scientists say they boost good gut bacteria
Bacteria found in probiotics - Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium - are also found in abundance in baby poo. Spanish rese...
Speech Materals 213 The Right Way to Motivate Employees
It’s one thing for a CEO to be passionate and enthusiastic, but there’s a line of professionalism that must always be ma...
Speech Materals 212 Tobacco sale ban for US campus shops
One of the world's top universities is taking a smoking ban a step further this week, as Stanford University prohibits t...
Speech Materals 211 Technology may ‘transform’ healthcare treatments
In the future, people may be able to do medical check-ups from home instead of going to the hospital. Smartphones and ev...
Speech Materals 210 Remembering Japan’s kamikaze pilots
Japan hopes to immortalize its kamikaze pilots - a squad of young men who crashed their aircraft into Allied ships in Wo...
Speech Materals 209 Habits of Happy People
It pays to have a sunny disposition. Optimistic people have been shown to have healthier hearts, better stress-managemen...
Speech Materals 208 French police introduce drive-through police stations for people to report crime
For the residents of a small French town close to the Mediterranean reporting a crime will soon be as easy as picking up...
Speech Materals 207 Chinese cockroach farmers are making a bundle selling pulverized bugs for $89 per lb.
It turns out China has a booming trade in cockroaches that can earn as much as 1200 yuan per kilogram, or $89 per pound....
Speech Materals 206 Bhutan to cut fossil fuel imports 70%, embrace electric cars
The small, mountainous nation of Bhutan is getting in on the act. The same country that has made headlines for measuring...
Speech Materals 205 Air Turbulence: How Dangerous Is It?
Like long security lines and bad coffee, air turbulence is one of the headaches travellers face when they decide to boar...