Monthly Archives: March 2017

Walt Disney’s & Salvador Dali Short-Animation – Destino

The film tells the story of Chronos, the personification of time and the inability to realize his desire to love for a mortal. The scenes blend a series of surreal paintings of Dali with dancing and metamorphosis.  The target production began in 1945, 58 years before its completion and was a collaboration between Walt Disney […]

Global housing prices index

The Economist published their most recent global housing prices report, which shows that housing prices in the U.S. have recovered to a new high (albeit marginal), while Spain and Ireland are seeing increases again and the Commonwealth is continuing to see prices increase in recent years.  Some of these rises can be attributed to the […]

Robert Kelly’s live BBC interview gatecrashed by his kids!

This professor’s kids hilariously interrupted his live interview! Daddy’s working! Brilliant moment a BBC expert’s live interview is gatecrashed by his curious children and a VERY stressed woman Robert Kelly is being interviewed on South Korea when his elder child dances in Marion, four, is followed by her baby brother, James, who enters the room […]

IBM has figured out how to store data on a single atom

Big things really can come in small packages. IBM announced it has managed to successfully store data on a single atom for the first time. The research, carried out at the computing giant’s Almaden lab in Silicon Valley, was published in the scientific journal Nature March 8, and could have massive implications for the way […]

What You Can Learn From the Success of the Sharing Economy

The sharing economy, or collaborative consumption, has quickly overtaken many business sectors. Most people have, or know someone who has, tried Airbnb, Uber, Etsy or another share-based business. To be successful in the sharing economy, your brand must be efficient, trustworthy, innovative and community-centric. These principles aren’t just indicative of successful share-based businesses; they also play an […]

How Facebook, fake news and friends are warping your memory

Strange things have been happening in the news lately. Already this year, members of US President Donald Trump’s administration have alluded to a ‘Bowling Green massacre’ and terror attacks in Sweden and Atlanta, Georgia, that never happened. The misinformation was swiftly corrected, but some historical myths have proved difficult to erase. Since at least 2010, […]

Snap’s IPO Made Its Employees Millionaires—Why Not DJ Khaled?

Snap’s IPO last week was good to investors, but it was even better to the company’s employees. Cofounders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy each walked away with $272 million, in addition to each owning at least $5 billion worth of stock, and other early employees likely made themselves an extra comma in their bank account. But […]