Author: Daniela

  • How to Improve Your Life with “The Four-Way View Test”

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    Stew Friedman shares his “Four-Way View Test” with readers in  The Harvard Business Review: There’s an old saw that the urgent often wins over the important. But too much focus on things that aren’t important to you can have significant long-term impact on your career, your family, and your health. “The “Four-Way View Test,” adapted…

  • Baby Boomers Should Consider Selling Their Companies To Employees When They Retire

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    In his Oped in the New York Times, Gar Alperovitz highlights a tremendous opportunity to create worker-owned businesses in the coming years: Over the next decade millions of business owners born during the baby boom will retire. Many, with no obvious succession strategy, will simply sell their companies, the backbone of Main Street economies across…

  • The Inner Lives Of Animals

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Brandon Keim investigates the field of animal consciousness: The whale biologist Shane Gero is part of a research team that has conducted long-term sperm-whale studies off the island of Domenica in the Caribbean. These studies describe the dynamics of whale families in which children are, in a very real sense,…

  • Key summit set in genetically modified food label fight

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    Published in The Hill by Ben Goad: Major players in the food industry have scheduled a crucial meeting for next week that could become a turning point in the regulatory battle over genetically modified foods. Challenges to the use of biotechnology have created an “unprecedented period of turmoil” for food producers, the Grocery Manufacturers Association…

  • Anaesthesia exposure and the developing brain

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    By Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic and Hugh Hemmings Rapidly mounting animal evidence clearly indicates that exposure to general anaesthesia during the early stages of brain development results in long-lasting behavioural impairments. These behavioural impairments manifest as reduced performance in tests of learning and memory know as cognitive deficits, lack of motivation, and problems with social interactions. Some worrisome similarities are apparent when emerging human…

  • GM Seafood to be Discussed at 2013 BioMarine Business Convention

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    CANADA – The 2013 BioMarine Business Convention, which will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 9-12 September, in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada, will focus on Aquaculture and Aquafeed, among the three themes of the event. Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing source of food production. With the world’s population set to…

  • Greenpeace exhorts FDA to stop misleading the public

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    Greenpeace calls on the FDA to stop feeding the public propaganda about the safety of eating GM products: ‘The FDA should stop feeding the public with propaganda. They are not truthful in saying that GMOs are safe for consumption. There is no scientific proof that GMOs pose no danger to human health and the environment.…

  • Eco-friendly generation Y boosts demand for chemical free products

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    Jackie Sinnerton of the Courier Mail reports on a new trend among young people to go organic: Brisbane teenager Anna-Lisa Persson, 18, has recently moved out of home and always shops for beauty products that are kind to the skin as well as the environment. ‘It’s a bit of a trend for young people to…

  • Belvedere Pub To Introduce Organic Liverpool Gin

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    The Liverpool Confidential introduces us to a new organic Liverpool gin with a little bit of history on the side: Organic Liverpool Gin is being produced by Belvedere pub landlord John O’Dowd in a joint venture with Liverpool Organic Brewery. Shaken not stirred: John O’DowdThe new still is based in Kirkdale and will be producing…

  • Scientists Detect Mysterious Radio Waves

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    A new article by Catherine Griffin in the Science World Report relays information on a single burst of radio emission of unknown origin detected six years ago outside our galaxy: In order to find these radio waves, the researchers used the CSIRO Parkes 64 meter radio telescope in Australia. This allowed them to detect the…