The time to use our platforms and privilege to speak out against the deep racism that plagues our society was years ago. I regret staying silent in those moments. The next best time is now. Silence is harmful because it prioritizes the comfort of those of us who benefit from racist policies at the expense […]
The news was delivered to President Donald Trump by Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), who said covid-19 patients who received the antiviral drug recovered 31% faster, in 11 days instead of 15, in a placebo-controlled trial carried out by his agency. “Even though it doesn’t seem like
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Sanjay Sharma is a Senior Financial Services Analyst for the Canadian region at Mintel. He researches and writes reports on the Canadian financial services industry. January 09th, 2020January 09th, 2020 The majority of Canadians believe that technology can change the financial industry for the better, according to an upcoming report on innovations in banking in
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Prometeo No one doubts that firefighters have an incredibly tough job. When your occupation explicitly requires you to go into places everyone else is desperately trying to flee, you know you’re performing a service few people would be capable of. But could technology help make firefighters’ jobs a bit less dangerous? That’s the hope of
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Of all the companies that offer DNA testing, 23andMe is one of the most famous. According to the International Society of Genetic Genealogy, 23andMe has tested the DNA of more than 5 million people, making it the second-most popular test after AncestryDNA. This popularity provides an advantage over DNA tests from smaller services: The more
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Interesting interview with Anna Brailsford – Code First: Girls, CEO What is your background briefly? I’ve been working in edtech for over ten years. My first introduction was actually through the family business. I studied English and History at Edinburgh and would return home to work during the holidays. Early exposure taught me a great
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Ten years from now sounds like a far cry away, but the technology that will affect our lives a decade from now is already being developed. In order to keep pace, we need to evolve. This means being ready for jobs that don’t yet exist. We need to accept that markets that exist today may
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Over the past few months on the TopRight blog we’ve written at length about the world of B2B, and what it really is as opposed to what it’s perceived to be. I’ve also talked a bit before about the act of seeing in marketing—how perception matters and what it means to use it or alter
Fifteen million babies are born prematurely each year. Stephen Quake’s daughter, Zoe, was one of them: she arrived via emergency C-section after Quake and his wife, Athina, made a middle-of-the-night dash to the emergency room, a month before Zoe was due. She spent her first night in an incubator, and her father, a bioengineer then
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How Doctors Can Effectively Use Social Media To Improve Their Patient’s Lives Of all business verticals, the healthcare industry as a whole, and physicians specifically, might be the latest adopters of social media that we know of. Over the years, most doctors have shied away from any form of healthcare marketing, and especially away from
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