“Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. I’ve estimated that one standard weekly meeting in my bureau—50 people sitting in a cookie-cutter conference room, looking both bored and anxious—costs around $177,000 annually, and surely this scenario occurs throughout the [organization] hundreds […]

Since first launching in 2007, Pornhub has swelled and expanded, rising up the internet rankings like a morning hard-on saluting the new dawn. Over the inaugural decade of its existence, it has become the internet’s biggest storage facility of pornographic content and although it’s not the most popular adult site on the net (that distinction […]

Berlin’s wealth of museums, galleries, and nightlife is what expats love most about the German capital. A new survey from HSBC found 70% of expats rated Berlin as having a great cultural scene, putting it at the top of the culture rankings out of 52 cities surveyed, ahead of Buenos Aires in second place and […]

Stocking up on everyday beauty essentials like shampoo, body wash and deodorant is something that many of us take for granted. But for a large number of the people living below the poverty line in the UK, a trip to the toiletry aisle is considered an occasional luxury. From girls missing out on days at […]

The vault storing the world’s most precious seeds is taking delivery on Monday of consignments that will take it to the one million mark. More than 70,000 crops will be added to frozen storage chambers buried deep within a mountain in the Arctic Circle. Cereal staples, unusual crops like the Estonian onion potato, and barley […]

Passengers flying onboard China Southern Airlines were in for a frightening start to their trip on Sunday as a phone charger caught fire in a passenger’s luggage stowed away in the overhead compartment. Passengers were in the process of boarding a flight heading from Guangzhou to Shanghai, China, on Sunday when smoke was spotted inside the airplane’s cabin, airline […]

AMC Networks announced a deal to acquire majority control of RLJ Entertainment, the streaming-oriented company headed by Robert Johnson, in a deal valuing RLJ at about $60 million. RLJ Entertainment operates two streaming-subscription services aimed a niche audiences: Acorn TV, which features British television and film content, and UMC (Urban Movie Channel). AMC is offering about $16 million to […]

Former McKinsey consultant Justin Whitmore was on the job as the first chief sustainability officer of Tyson Foods just one month when he disclosed his team’s intention to set science-based targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and to embrace “outcome-based” water conservation goals across the company’s operations and supply chain. It tapped World Resources Institute […]

The board of directors of The Weinstein Company said late Sunday that the New York film and TV studio planned to file for bankruptcy after talks to sell it collapsed. The company had been seeking a deal that would spare it from bankruptcy after more than 70 women accused the film producer Harvey Weinstein of […]

A deadly storm system packing powerful wind, rain, hail and tornadoes ripped through the Southern and Central U.S. over the weekend, flattening homes, ripping off roofs and causing widespread flooding. At least four people died in incidents blamed on the weather. The National Weather Srvice says a dozen tornadoes were reported Saturday across Tennessee, Kentucky, […]