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It was just the other day that the American President, while congratulating the Super Bowl winners - the Kansas City Chiefs, told the world that they've made the whole of Kansas proud. That's very nice except that the Chiefs play in Missouri rather than in Kansas. A simple mistake that anyone could make but it just goes to show that sometimes our geographical knowledge isn't all it could be. I guess that, while we are exposed more than ever to news from all over the world, we don't take a lot of it in. Looking at a map myself the other day I was astounded that Kazakhstan is actually bigger ...  More

It's a sad state of affairs but only 20% of students in America learn a foreign language. However, in Europe, that figure sits at over 90%! In Australia, while 73% of households identified as English speaking, only 21% can speak a different language while in Canada, of course, there are two official languages - English and French. Naturally, as the world becomes more multicultural, the figures for language learning continue to rise. There are a number of reasons for that. There are more people traveling between countries these days than ever before, more people studying and there are more ...  More

You can't turn your head these days without encountering a story about climate change. In the last year alone we've seen huge fires in the US, Australia and Brazil as well as numerous other 'natural' disasters. Sea temperatures are rising, the ice is melting and many countries have seen average temperatures higher than they've ever been. Politicians have suggested radical new ideas to stall the onset of climate disaster. In America, politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has even put forward her Green New Deal plan which tries to convince the world's population to stop flying and to eat less ...  More

As I'm sure we are all aware, there are heaps of dating apps out there. Some are better than others. They've all got their individual 'thing' that sets them apart from similar apps but most offer a fairly similar scenario. Find someone who looks good, check out their profile and chat away. The emphasis is generally about getting to know someone and, if you're lucky and you seem reasonably compatible, maybe then it's time to take things further. One of the problems with this, however, is that many folks on dating apps aren't necessarily who and what they say they are. We've all seen the ...  More

In a recent study by the Harvard Business Review it was estimated that marketing executives could be losing 10-15% of their time by not automating their simple tasks. It was found that, with the constant jumping back and forth between SaaS platforms, it was costing them time and, as a consequence, money. Clearly, it would be a heck of a lot easier and a lot more efficient to click one button that would lead to two different platforms simply 'speaking' to each other to get the job done. Now, if marketing people seem to think that it will save them that much time, the rest of us would surely ...  More

Just in case you aren't sure, Dropshipping is a supply chain management system where the retailer plays the 'middleman' between the manufacturer or wholesaler and the customer. In some cases there may be a bricks and mortar store but, generally speaking, most will opt for something like an online Shopify website to sell their goods. The bottom line here though is that the retailer doesn't hold any stock on site. When orders for goods are taken, it's the manufacturer who ships them to the customer with the retailer's profit being the difference between the wholesale price and the retail ...  More

How organized are you? Do you have heaps of post it notes on your fridge or on your desk at work? Are you constantly saying to yourself "where did I put that.....?" Or maybe you've got a whole heap of different apps for note taking, idea sharing, team collaboration or project management. It doesn't matter whether we are at home or at work. The fact is, most of us could do with a little better organization in our lives. Well, no matter if you are at home or at work, there's a brand new task management tool out there for your smartphone that'll make your life a heck of a life easier.  More

You can look at as many photos or videos as you like when researching a product that you are interested in buying but there's nothing like a live demonstration to see how good it performs in real life. However, that's not always possible to achieve. Let's face it, you're not necessarily going to find the exact same camera that you are interested in on display at the local shop. Even if you do manage to find it and the retail assistant is happy to demonstrate it, you're still going to get a salesperson's take on how well it works and whether it is good value for money. The bottom line here ...  More

It's not often that you get a game that looks like a million dollars and plays that way too. Usually, you tend to get one or the other. There's plenty of games out there that have lavish graphics but leave a lot to be desired when it comes to gameplay. Equally, there are a whole heap of games out there that play real well but are lacking somewhat in the visual department. But here we have an action game that seems to cover all bases. Enter The Reveries is an interactive action adventure side-scrolling game for iOS that gives one the feeling of being in a lavish manga movie with glorious ...  More

I believe that it was the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss who said that "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences—and number theory is the queen of mathematics." If you're not sure what a number theorist is, I will tell you now. Number theorists study prime numbers as well as the properties of objects made out of integers or defined as generalisations of the integers. It used to be called arithmetic back in the early part of the 20th Century but, over the years, that term has been stretched to cover several other different forms of mathematics.   More