With the boom in technology, touchscreen and swiping across phone screens is a mere technicality now. Latest gadgets are so advanced that one cannot imagine what other technology man has brought their way this year. Some of these new technology gadgets are: 1. The smart-home Living in the 21st century, all of us at home...Read More
Australians are known for their love of travel. There’s nothing a fair-dinkum Aussie larrikin likes more than hoisting his travel bag over his shoulders and make for the great open outback. We bring you a list of five great travel books that you should read to keep that wanderer’s spirit alive. 1. In a sunburned...Read More
On Thursday, 17 July 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 Boeing 777 was shot down over Ukraine, near the Russian border. None of the 298 passengers on board survived. The most well-known among the passengers in the week following the incident, though, is Cor Pan, a Dutch national travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, posted a...Read More
Especially with the ubiquitous nature of social media, internet devices and ever-present email services (read Gmail), the internet could appear sometimes to be a benign place. We think we’re anonymous when we’re on the internet, just because we’re sitting by ourselves in our Read More
In the spirit of full disclosure, I must say I am not a soccer fan. I did play the game for my school and was deemed good enough at it by the coach to be a plucky defender, but as an adult I’ve found tennis and cricket far more interesting. But when the World Cup...Read More
In a time of value-erosion and increasing attention paid to numbers and bottom lines, we thought it would be timely to put out a list of values that we believe are important enough for people to align their lives by. Loyalty It’s the easiest thing in the world to always look up at the rungs...Read More
If lung cancer is not a good enough deterrent and if you still feel the need to light up, try our four top social reasons which should make you think twice the next time you reach for a cigarette. After all, you most likely began smoking for social reasons; why not see if they can...Read More
Bullying could be quite bad, no matter if it occurs at school or at the workplace. But a new research study has found that people in general feel unhappier and lonelier when they’re ignored. University of British Columbia’s Sandra Robinson and her team superimposed surveys of workplace ostracism on those of workplace bullying and found...Read More
If you have a business and you’re employing overseas workers, you must actively contribute to training Australian employees too, and if you aren’t, it’s likely that you will hear from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Until July 2013, businesses needed to show their active participation over a 12-month period in providing specific training...Read More
If funding is received as expected, say astronomers at SETI Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, chances are that we will discover intelligent alien life within the next twenty years. Dan Werthimer, director of the research centre, said in his written testimony to Congress that the likelihood of aliens existing was ‘close to...Read More