‘Personality’ Archives
Photoshop Disasters: Technology Used to Uphold Dangerous Beauty Standards
The greatest threat to healthy female body image might just be...a computer program. That's right : Photoshop isn't just manipulating the colors and shades of the sky in the background, it's manipulating the way we think about female beauty. More specifically, reinforcing the aesthetic of the skinny, the skinnier, and the emaciated. The program [...]
UiTM lecturer first Malaysian awarded Aussie PM’s scholarship
SHAH ALAM: A Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) medical faculty lecturer, Dr Jeegajeeva Rao, created history by becoming the first Malaysian to receive the Australian Prime Minister’s scholarship award. Dr Jeegajeeva, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, received the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Awards worth RM630,500 to pursue a [...]
Indian-origin Researcher Makes PCs 100 Times Faster
Toronto: Indian-origin researcher Sanjeev John and his colleague Xun Ma of the University of Toronto have discovered new behaviour of light which could lead to cooler and faster computing. The two quantum optics researchers have discovered "new behaviours'' of light changes within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information [...]
Family Business – Who Should Run
A family business is a business in which one or more members of one or more families have a significant ownership interest and significant commitments toward the business’ overall well-being. In some countries, many of the largest publicly listed firms are family-owned. A firm is said to be family-owned if a person is the controlling [...]
Gates Foundation seeks keys to effective teaching
Ever since Americans sent their children to one-room schoolhouses, parents have known what makes a good school: inspiring, organized, and creative teachers. But researchers haven't been able to quantify what, exactly, makes a teacher effective and how to tie that to student achievement. Now, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation--one of the [...]
Leaders Need To Be Collaborators
Source : Forbes.comWe all want to enable organizational velocity. We know that as we lead, we not only need to make right decisions ourselves, but we need to help our teams make good decisions as well. But how often do we step in, make the decision and then wonder why our team is not "engaged?" Many a leader sees himself in this scenario: [...]
Fortune of India's 100 Richest – Rebounding Stock Market India
Happier days are here again for India's super rich, thanks to a rebounding stock market, up two-thirds in the past year, and a still buoyant economy that's growing at least 6% a year. The nation is now home to 52 billionaires, up from 27 last year and only two short of what India had at the peak of its stock market boom in 2007. The combined [...]
