What we do depends on the final goal. If you first of all try not to anger your opponent, then you can relax and try to have fun. There is also another way. Like China with an attempt to take the top managers of its leading companies hostage
Insulin is a drug! Diabetics are also made drug addicts! Synthetic insulin is a poisonous drug, just like many other medicines. It does not heal anything, just like all other medicines. It only keeps diabetes constantly active
When it comes to nutrition, sugar is an enemy to fight. It is considered one of the main causes of diseases such as obesity, diabetes and heart problems. Causes hyperactivity and tooth decay. Here are some of the arguments that opponents of the ubiquitous presence of sugar in our diets make
The photograph, which captures former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, at the moment when he demonstrates a test tube, allegedly containing anthrax spores, during a UN meeting, has become widely known throughout the world. This situation occurred in 2002, that is, shortly after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001
Gasoline from Europe may appear at Russian gas stations. We will not talk about quality, but in terms of price, it is much more attractive than domestic. So much so that you can install speakers separate from other brands - "From Europe". And there will be no need to talk about additives and other miraculous properties that are supposedly saturated with premium brands of Russian gasoline. All these advantages will fade against the background of the price of foreign fuel
Today we will talk about oil prices and all the movement that is happening around them. But before the main conversation, I recently made it a habit to pre-fix the main fact. Because there are some alternatively gifted citizens who manage to directly contradict themselves in two adjacent sentences
"TOMORROW". Igor Alexandrovich, the number one resource of mankind is not oil, not gas or gold, but fresh water. How much fresh water is on Earth now?
Common forecast for the near future
In recent years, the wave of publications devoted to the fight against global warming is becoming similar to the tsunami wave that swept all kinds of international conferences, and after them the overwhelming majority of news and even analytical portals. Only the lazy does not write on this topic - the topic is in demand by readers and viewers "in the entire civilized world"
Despite the fact that the history of Dubai is more than 5 thousand years old, but over the past half century, from a poor settlement, it has turned into an ultra-modern metropolis. Those who think that the once tiny fishing village achieved its financial health thanks to the discovered oil are deeply mistaken. If black gold became a good impetus for the start of development, but the secrets of such a rapid economic miracle lie in something completely different
If you go to any forum where DNA examination is discussed, I aim to establish paternity, if you read the comments under articles on this topic, then we will see that women boil with indignation at the mere mention of such a test. “What kind of normal guy would do this test? If he doesn’t trust his wife, then this is his problem.”“I see, he wants to jump off. Like my biological father is not me, so bring it up yourself
The energy industry around the world is undergoing revolutionary changes. Leading countries of the world increase the share of energy obtained from renewable sources
The trail of radical feminism, understood as the struggle for the legalization of LGBT people and the right to free abortions, has long and thickly hangs over the international day of women's struggle for their social rights and equality
Plump, mouth-watering lips are in vogue, however, for most women who have resorted to Botox, the result looks pretty deplorable. Most often, lips look unnatural, strange and absurd. As if the ladies climbed into the apiary and stole honey from the bees, and then, of course, paid for it. And it also looks like all women with pouting lips are pretending to be in a horror movie
Child psychologist, publicist Irina Medvedeva and teacher, writer Tatyana Shishova talk with Dmitry Raevsky, one of the founders of the Teach to Good project, about how to manage a mass audience bypassing consciousness, primarily through the media and mass culture
How can capitalism outlive itself? And how, on the contrary, he can not get rid of himself, but, on the contrary, slide down to his worst, most savage
Who would have thought that such a seemingly harmless subject like logic could become both a stumbling block and an instrument of ideological struggle? However, the last hundred years testify to exactly this
Hong Kong is a metropolis located on the warm shores of the South China Sea. Now it is one of the largest financial centers and transport hubs in the world
The pyramids as we know them arose relatively recently, at the beginning of the 20th century. But humanity went to their creation for a long time and persistently. So what helps some people sell air and others buy it?
Citizens of Russia named the level of wages of 161 thousand rubles per month, which they consider to feel like a happy person. But needs are growing, and the incomes of the middle class in the country, meanwhile, are falling
Recently, I noticed something strange on Google Maps: photos related to the war in Syria were attached to the location of the Russian diplomatic missions. Instead of the usual photographs of buildings and architectural complexes, photos of interiors or stories about these places, the locations included photographs of destroyed Syrian cities, images of wounded civilians and residents of houses removed from the rubble of these houses, as well as insults to the Russian and Syrian presidents
Satellite data have long proven that the melting of glaciers significantly increases the level of the world's oceans. Recently it became known that from 1961 to 2016 the planet lost 9 trillion tons of ice, and the water level in it rises by one millimeter every year
Walking barefoot, of course, is not a panacea. And it cannot even claim to be independent in solving any problems of physical culture. However, its use in the general complex of a person's hygienic regime can have a noticeable effect on his health
To begin with, let's figure out what it actually means to "take responsibility"? The ordinary meaning of this process is very different from the real one, therefore, requires preliminary clarification
Nutrition plays an important role in maintaining our health. If we know a lot about healthy products, then it is worth dealing with harmful ones
What if there is no sun - the main supplier of vitamin D? For people living in a temperate climatic zone, this problem is most relevant. So where is vitamin D found?
Rarely, when the established world order undergoes significant changes: Rome was not built in one day, and the world it formed - Pax Romana - existed for centuries. The world order that emerged as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 became a thing of the past only with the outbreak of the First World War. But it also happens that trust in the old order collapses, and humanity remains in a vacuum
The dependence of modern young people on the consumption of digital content threatens humanity with intellectual degradation and a kind of division into smart and stupid. Such conclusions of the scientific study were cited by the head of the laboratory of neurosciences and human behavior of Sberbank, president of the Higher School of Methodology Andrei Kurpatov, who spoke at a business breakfast of Sberbank as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos
The increasing pace and volume of information flow in modern culture require new approaches to the extraction and processing of information, which cannot but affect the change in both classical ideas about thought processes and the thinking process itself
It just so happens today that most people live "like everyone else", well, or "as is customary." At the same time, they do not think about why it is "so accepted", and by whom it is "accepted", not to mention consciously understanding and imagining that of what is "accepted" is useful to oneself and to society, and what is destructive for everyone and absolutely unacceptable
At the opening of the 32nd Moscow International Book Fair, discussing history books, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky criticized comics, noting that "the comic is aimed at a child who is just learning to read, but it seems to me squalor for an adult to read comics."
Separate waste collection has been officially introduced in Moscow since January 1. According to our officials, the separation of waste into dry and wet will make it possible to make a qualitative breakthrough in organizing the collection of recyclable materials for processing. But is it?
How in just two years the Crimean bridge was built, 19 kilometers long. The movement of cars on it will begin early in the morning on May 16
One of the oldest tricks in marketing textbooks is to grossly inflate the price of something in order to increase its perceived value to people. Ironically, the lower the intrinsic value of a product, the more effective this tactic can be. This could explain what is happening with one of the most expensive and most useless chemotherapy drugs on the market today
Changes to the Strategy for Countering Extremism in the Russian Federation until 2025 are proposed. Who is considered an extremist? Are Russia's enemies called by their proper names?
On March 8, 1988, a festive mood reigned aboard a Tu-154 flying from Irkutsk to Leningrad. But halfway through, everything suddenly changed. Not all women survived on International Women's Day. Instead of flowers, the stewardess will get a bullet, and the mother of the family, who demanded to change the route and fly abroad, will be killed by the hands of her own son. In general, this hijacking of the aircraft will become one of the most difficult pages in the history of Soviet air travel - in terms of the number of victims and questions that remain
During self-isolation, many countries recorded a sharp increase in the number of calls to hotlines from victims of domestic violence. As of the end of March, these figures were 32% more in France than in previous months, in Spain - by 12.5%, in Cyprus - by 30%, in China - three times
Anyone who is more or less interested in a person arises a natural question: why, with all the development of aviation technology, there are no rescue systems, ejection systems, or even banal parachutes in passenger airplanes?
Everyone has heard at least once that airplanes during flight, for one reason or another, can discharge fuel. It is not difficult to guess, even without special knowledge, that any such discharge is an emergency, compulsory measure. However, it doesn't get any easier from realizing this. What happens to kerosene? Does he really have every chance of falling on people's heads?
In the first months of the epidemic, China recorded a record number of divorces. Sociologists predict a complete restructuring of communication between people - including within the family. But in fact, these processes were launched long before the coronavirus. Forbes Life decided to figure out what transformations of the institution of family and relationships we can expect in the future