6 Staggering Black Friday Shopping Facts
We present to you 6 Black Friday facts that can assist you in making the most out of the COVID-19 ridden holiday. For a lot of Americans, Black Friday is a chance to save cash on gifts for Christmas. For others, it’s a day to hang at home to avert lengthy lines and assertive shoppers.…
The father of Iran’s nuclear programme is assassinated
Nov 27th 2020BEIRUT, JERUSALEM AND LONDONFEW KILLINGS arouse Iran’s feelings of victimhood and outrage like the assassination of its nuclear scientists. To get a sense of their prominence, head to the Holy Defence Museum, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ monument to its martyrs, perched on the heights overlooking the capital, Tehran. Between the rubbish bins…
Is there an M&A boom coming?
Nov 28th 2020IMAGINE YOU are the boss of a public company. Normally you are busy making decisions, visiting outposts, talking to customers, suppliers and employees. The meetings are endless. You have little time for reflection. Then, suddenly this spring, after a bout of firefighting, the diary is bare. You sit in your study, hiding from…
Christine Lagarde is taking the ECB out of its comfort zone
Nov 28th 2020CHRISTINE LAGARDE has been an outsider before. Speaking to The Economist, she relishes the memory of shaking up bureaucrats—“men in grey suits”—when she took over as France’s finance minister in 2007. She even installed a “psychedelic” carpet in her office, to get them to look up from the floor. Now Ms Lagarde, who…
Thanksgiving Foods You Can & Can’t Feed Your Dog
It’s perhaps tempting to offer your furry friend(s) Thanksgiving foods. But, there are various dishes that aren’t safe for dogs to consume. Like us, canines are omnivores, so just about every item on a Thanksgiving table may be savory to your pooch. However, a conventional turkey dinner consists of particulars that can be detrimental to…
The Shocking Truths Behind the Logos of the Leading Brands
Wherever we go, whatever work we are engaged in, we get to interact with a ton of logos. But have we ever tried to investigate what they really mean? Has it ever crossed our minds that what could be the logic or theory behind that logo? Well, APPWRK IT Solutions has cherry-picked the top 6…
How to sterilise scalpels when no electricity is available
Nov 28th 2020IN THE HISTORY of medicine, praise is rightly showered on those who invented vaccines, antibiotics, antiseptics and anaesthetics. Few, though, remember Charles Chamberland, inventor of the humble autoclave. Yet the ability to sterilise surgical instruments reliably, by exposing them to high-pressure steam in such a device, has been crucial to the development of…
Another covid-19 vaccine joins the party
Nov 23rd 2020ON NOVEMBER 23RD, for the third Monday in a row, the results of an anti-covid vaccine were announced. This time the protagonists were AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company, and Oxford University. They reported their vaccine to be 70% effective. But doubts have since arisen about the conduct of the trials which arrived at…
Bad debts in China
DEBT-COLLECTION videos have become a popular subgenre on Chinese clip-sharing platforms. Many feature young men deftly fielding phone calls from aggressive collectors. Some portray the abuses—hair pulling, slapping—that have come to define a business that has long gone largely unregulated in China. The result has been a Wild West for collections. Debt collectors sometimes impersonate…
Jerome Powell and Steven Mnuchin are at odds over emergency loans
AS COVID-19 spread across America, its fiscal and monetary tsars donned their masks, bumped elbows and presented a united front. Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, slashed interest rates and bought Treasuries and mortgage debt. Steve Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, pushed through a stimulus package worth $2.2trn that increased the generosity of unemployment…