Last Wednesday, the Dutch government decided not to impose any “national obligation” on its people to wear masks, reports Reuters.
The reason for opting out of the global masquerade? Minister for Medical Care, Tamara van Ark, asserted that “from a medical perspective there is no proven effec
Mahatma Gandhi was asked, what are the factors that destroy and build a person.
He replied:
Politics without principles,
Pleasure without obligation,
Wealth without work,
Wisdom without character,
Business without morality,
Science without humanity and
Prayer without charity, Destroy the person.
Life has taught me that people are friendly, if I am kind;
People are sad, if I’m sad;
They are all bad, if I hate them;
There are smiling faces, if I were to smile;
Sour faces out there, if I’m bitter.
The world is h
The emergence of smart homes and the consequent prevalence of smart home security cameras has been associated with consumer preference towards energy efficiency and optimum resource utilization. While smart homes are popular for these advantages, security cameras are witnessing a surge in their adoption as we see a rise in security issues in and around these homes. The advent of next-generation wireless technologies such as HVAC Controller, security and access regulators, and entertainment contr
My stats guru colleague Dr Andrew Pratley and I are on the move to tackle Quantifornication, the plucking of numbers out of thin air. Here is the fourth in a series we are co-writing.
We all have a tendency to overestimate our knowledge. And as a result, we believe that we know things which we don't. Our understanding of what is random is even worse – hence Nassim Taleb’s book Fooled by Randomness. It's the overconfidence that is the problem. It causes us to jump to the wrong answer and believe i
This respirator does not protect against the risk of contracting disease or infection. —Warning with a box of N-95 respirators.
You have no right not to be vaccinated. You have no right not to wear a mask. You have no right to open up your business …. If you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor’s office and
The Trump Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) 2018 has called for “the development of new, more usable nuclear weapons”.
The 2018 NPR is in many regards Déjà Vu.
What seems to have escaped the numerous media reports on Trump’s 2018 NPR is that the development of “more usabl
Supply chain thinking used to be limited to the managers of a few global companies—companies that were struggling to coordinate 
internal information and materials. This, however, led to an exciting boom in cross-business coordination based on Supply Chain Management concepts.
Today, the field has broadened and shifted over time. Current supply chain trends—differentiation, outsourcing, compression, and collaboration—are being used to restructure supply networks and improve coordination. As more c
The concept of operating room (OR) integration has been introduced to streamline and automate the operating room by consolidating data, video access, and controls for all of these devices at the central command station. OR integration could allow the surgical staff to perform many of their tasks efficiently without having to move around the operating room. OR integration most commonly involves stopping displays and imaging modalities within the OR, eliminating trip-hazards created by wiring, and
The controversial face-mask wearing and social- distance problem in the US has celebrities getting into the political aspect of shaming people like actor Tom Hanks who recently said that:
“There’s really only three things we can do in order to get to tomorrow: Wear a mask, social distance, wash our hands,”
“Those things are so simple, so
“Personality is persona, a mask…The mask is magic…Larva means mask; or ghost…it also means mad, a case of demoniacal possession.” – Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body
Walk the streets in the United States and many countries these days and you will see streaming crowds of people possessed by demons, masked and anonymous, whose eyes look like vacuums, staring into space or out of empty sockets like the dead, afraid of their own g
With the participation of hundreds of professionals from all over the world, “Doctors for the truth” denounced that the Covid-19 is a false pandemic created for political purposes. They urged doctors, the media and political authorities to stop the operation, by spreading the truth.
In a context of great ex
This is a transcript of our interview with Liam Healy, SVP & Managing Director at Diligent.
You can watch the original video interview here
Boris: Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to our interview with Liam Healy. Liam is a senior vice president and management director at Diligent. Diligent is a market leading board portal allowing a parallel board management with simplicity in functionality to mitigate risk and enable effective governance. Recently Diligent launched Diligent Compliance to
Most organizations are unhealthy. Only organizations that are recognized to be Resilient, Just-in-Time, and Military can be described
and relatively free from dysfunction. Yet, only 27% of the responses gathered from the Org DNA Profiler showed a healthy profile.
The Org DNA Profiler is a short online self-assessment tool launched on December 9, 2003. It was used to measure an organization’s relative strength in 4 key areas, on the basis of individual employees’ responses to 19 questions. From
Biometrics has recently emerged as a reliable technology to provide a higher level of security for the personal authentication system. Among the different biometric characteristics that can be used to recognize a person, the human hand is the oldest and maybe the most successful form of biometrics technology. Contactless biometrics technology provides new and innovative ways for systems to leverage the power of biometrics.
The industry will continue to push the limits, and there will be a great d
Security in the digital world is in demand for online financial businesses. This is because of the increasing number of digital frauds that are penetrating into the digital space at a high pace. The digital frauds are of many types. These correspond to financial crimes, a variety of credit card frauds, payment scams, and cyberattacks. The digital frauds include identity theft, account takeover fraud, and high-scale data breaches. Under these circumstances, there should be active security measure
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My stats guru colleague Dr Andrew Pratley and I are on the move to tackle Quantifornication, the plucking of numbers out of thin air. Here is the third in a series we are co-writing.
Why do so many educators in statistics consistently fail to translate these ideas into something that people can both remember and use? The problem is the language, not the numbers. Part of the problem with statistics, as is the case with most technical subjects, is the unique terminology. The COVID-19 pandemic has s
BY MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW
Companies showing the most agility and resilience in their response to the global pandemic are pursuing four main strategies.
Several months into a global pandemic, leading organizations are redefining expectations of what is possible. Consider how offices around the world shifted virtually overnight to digitally enabled remote work. Grocery retailers and restaurants r
A Message of Peace, Dignity, and Prosperity to Barack Obama, the Corporate Elites and the Military-Industrial Complex Regarding the Spying Allegations against Edward Snowden and his Pledge for a More Transparent and Decent World: America cannot break the Law to uphold the Law
According to TechSci Research report, “Global Ammonia Market By Grade, By Application, By Manufacturing Process, By Region, Competition, Forecast & Opportunities, 2025”, the global ammonia market is forecast to reach $ 68 billion by 2025 owing to increasing demand from chemicals, fertilizers and pharmaceutical industries. Growing global fertilizer industry is expected to continue augmenting demand for ammonia over the next five years. However, global lockdown due to onset of COVID-19 has result
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