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Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

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According to Paul Osincup , corporate trainer, humor strategist and author of the forthcoming book, The Humor Habit , we are all suffering from a condition he refers to as “chronic seriousness.” economy up to $187 billion every year between lost productivity and health care and medical costs.

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Twilio cuts 17% of its workforce

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To do that, we’re forming two business units: Twilio Communications and Twilio Data & Applications. This new development comes less than a year after the tech giant conducted its first round of job cuts in September 2022, where 11% of its staff were let go. “We have to spend less, streamline, and become more efficient.

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Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future

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But perhaps nobody can top that of Erich Fromm, the sociologist and psychoanalyst who first described it in his 1973 book The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness as “The passionate love of life and all that is alive”. The term biophilia was later popularised more dryly in a 1984 book by the biologist Edward O.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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In this book, she presents evidence that while large philanthropic donations and headline-making policy changes may get most of our media attention, they are not the only tools to achieve peace. Menopause is not a disease, states ob/gyn Dr. Jen Gunter, author of the best-selling book The Vagina Bible. Read an excerpt here. ) .

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Scientist and Engineer Rosalind Picard Is Transforming Digital Health with Wearable AI

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Professor Rosalind Picard founds Empatica, Embrace and Affectiva Six years later, Picard—MIT professor and TED Talk speaker —wrote a highly influential book about, and subsequently developed, affective computing: an entire field of study dedicated to systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process and simulate human emotions. “I

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How to Build Your First Client Base

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He is also an Air Force veteran and has led a very successful career as a medical sales rep. His business has been named and the tax forms have been filled out, but he is still missing one key component: clients. If they would first go to a book, now is the time you write one.

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Throwing open the window to a new world of work

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While at work in a Viennese Obstetric Clinic in the mid 1840s, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that mothers were far less likely to succumb to a potentially fatal infection called puerperal fever when the medical staff treating them washed their hands. And that should have been that.

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