A new study from the Monash Business School has found that fathers and partners still struggle to take up paid parental leave, despite legal changes that were designed to clear the way.
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Russia's Gazprom stopped supplying Austria's OMV last month, prompting a number of headlines. However, there was no major panic this time. It was a completely different story almost three years earlier: when Russian troops ...
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A doctoral dissertation to be defended at the Oulu Business School at the University of Oulu reveals that the temperament traits of those who become leaders include curiosity, impulsiveness, energetic, and self-confidence. ...
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Not just hurricanes and droughts: less extreme but more frequent weather events, such as thunderstorms, can have significant and lasting economic impacts, with effects that vary across different socio-economic groups. This ...
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A mathematician at Yonsei University, in Korea, claims to have solved the moving sofa problem. Jineon Baek has posted a 100+-page proof of the problem on the arXiv preprint server.
German survey respondents rated images of tattooed models as less beautiful than images of the same models with no tattoos. However, younger people, tattoo artists and those with body art tolerated more ink, according to ...
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A research group led by Johannes Müller at the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, at Kiel University, Germany, have shed light on the lives of people who lived over 5,600 years ago near Kosenivka, Ukraine.
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Accounts of people describing deep meditation often present such states as "pure consciousness experience" which feel alert yet are practically devoid of any content other than "awareness itself." In general, these states ...
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Businesses in Rwanda whose tax affairs were audited paid on average an additional $17,246 in taxes over the three years following the audit, a recent study shows.
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Religious believers are no more generous than atheists—at least as long as they don't know what the recipient believes in. Finding this out increases generosity significantly, mainly because people give more to those who ...
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