Adapted from When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Ourselves. Defining poverty is not simply an academic exercise. The ways we define poverty—either implicitly or explicitly—play a major role in determining the solutions we use in our attempts to alleviate that poverty. When a sick person goes to the doctor, the doctor could make two… Read More »
One way astronomers estimate the age of the universe by studying globular clusters. Globular Clusters are a dense collection of roughly a million stars. Since all of the stars in a globular cluster formed at roughly the same time, they can serve as cosmic clocks. This way of estimating the age of the universe is based on our… Read More »
Wherever you go in the world, you’ll hear Arabic being spoken. It’s a fascinating language and many people are deciding to take it up. Today, it’s considered one of the fastest-growing languages in the world. 25 countries in the world also have Arabic as an official or spoken language, so it can be useful for work, travel, and social… Read More »
I’ve often said that parenting is the best guide to leadership. In preparation for my oldest son leaving for college, I decided to sit down and write a few words of parental wisdom. In sharing the letter with a few close friends, a few of whom are business leaders, I was struck by the consistency of their feedback — namely,… Read More »
This final article of the series mentions the very last of the Major Signs that will occur before the Day of Judgment. These signs include three landslides, the appearance of a smoke, the rising of the sun from the West, the appearance of a beast from the earth and finally a fire that will drive all people to… Read More »
When Alice scrolls through her social media feed, she’s stopped in her tracks by the news that her company is about to be bought out by its biggest rival. She quickly posts a response, shares the story with her contacts, and emails it to her team so that they can discuss it later. But then Alice has a… Read More »
D.B. Cooper, criminal who in 1971 hijacked a commercial plane traveling from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, and later parachuted out of the aircraft with the ransom money. An extensive manhunt ensued, but the hijacker was never identified or caught, resulting in one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in U.S history. The man used the alias Dan Cooper, but, in the subsequent news reporting, a reporter misheard the… Read More »
This is is the shortest surah of the Holy Quran comprising of only 3 verses. Surah Kawthar is among the Mekkan Surahs and it’s the 108th surah in the Quranic order present in the last chapter of the Quran. The word Al-Kauthar originates from the word kathrah (bounty) and it (Al-Kauthar) phonetically implies a plenitude of goodness, spiritual benefits,… Read More »
1. Define the problem Diagnose the situation so that your focus is on the problem, not just its symptoms. Helpful problem-solving techniques include using flowcharts to identify the expected steps of a process and cause-and-effect diagrams to define and analyze root causes. The sections below help explain key problem-solving steps. These steps support the involvement of interested parties, the use of factual information,… Read More »
Multiplication Calculator is a free online tool that displays the product of two numbers. BYJU’S online multiplication calculator tool makes the calculation faster and it displays the multiplication of two numbers in a fraction of seconds. How to Use the Multiplication Calculator? The procedure to use the multiplication calculator is as follows: Step 1: Enter two numbers in the… Read More »