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...
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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...