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What is a parent's role in raising smart, confident and successful children? What matters? What doesn't? Though I am the mother of two happy and driven entrepreneurial sons, these are questions I never thought to ask.Looking back, I would have loved to have read stories about how entrepreneurs had grown up — not just Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, but people who we could actually identify with. Entrepreneurs, in my view, are not just founders of for-profit businesses. They are resilient, hard-working people who start…

Image: Morsa Images/GettyMillions of workers have quit or switched jobs in recent years, whether as a consequence of the pandemic and the workplace truths it revealed, or simply as a natural part of their career progression.However, what's also clear is that the pandemic – and pandemic-era working – has prompted more employees across all levels of seniority to think about what parts of their job they want to change, or what they would do differently if they had an opportunity to start again.According to a survey of…

Credit: Shutterstock Driving in the rain can be demanding. It gets harder to see, sudden stopping is difficult, and rain can cause a car to lose grip when braking. Rain after a dry spell can cause grease and oil build-up on roads to become slippery. …

Recently developed artificial intelligence (AI) models are capable of many impressive feats, including recognizing images and producing human-like language. But just because AI can perform human-like behaviors doesn’t mean it can think or understand like humans. As a researcher studying how humans understand and reason about the world, I think it’s important to emphasize the way AI systems “think” and learn is fundamentally different to how humans do – and we have a long way to go before AI…

Will Smith has opened up about his personal “pain” in a new in-depth interview with David Letterman.The interview, released on Netflix as part of a new season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, was recorded before the 2022 Oscars, when Smith famously slapped Chris Rock on stage.In the new episode, released on Friday 20 May, Smith discussed taking a break from acting and working on his 2021 memoir.“My experiences and my life, and the writing of this book have unlocked a part of me, as an actor, that is like nothing…

By this time tomorrow, every drop of blood in your body will have passed through your kidneys dozens of times. With each pass, water saturated with waste is removed to form urine, and freshly cleaned blood then returns back into circulation.  We might imagine this vital task as a kind of force-fed filtration driven by the thumping pressures of our heartbeat. But, according to a new study co-authored by Johns Hopkins mechanical engineer Sean Sun, that description isn't quite as accurate as once thought."Everyone hears…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As schools moved to a mode of emergency response teaching (ERT) at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were distinct differences in the effect it had on students and teachers whether they were in developed or developing countries, a new study shows. …

Unionization efforts in two large American employers demonstrate some of the broader trends playing out in the U.S. labor movement.There are two key differences between unionization campaigns at Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 0.06% and Starbucks SBUX -2.22% : Starbucks petitions have been more frequent and much smaller in bargaining size compared with Amazon. As of May 5, more than 240 Starbucks locations have filed election…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An international team of researchers finds that the social media messages that resonate best with loyalty program members differ from the posts that work best with other customers. The finding could inform how best to craft social media campaigns aimed at either segment of a company's customer base.…