News Stories

News Stories relating to "jobs"

Find a Paranormal Profession

Monday, October 22, 2012
The recession has hit some people harder than others. For instance, how does a Wiccan, psychic investigator,...
read more

Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Studies have shown that attractive people get more attention. Beautiful women, for instance, get promoted more often. But when it comes to APPLYING for the job, sex roles are reversed: Women who attached an attractive photo to their resumes...
read more 2 comments

Our Economy is Faltering Because We're Not Bored

Friday, September 2, 2011
What can be done to create more JOBS? ONE thing we can do is become more bored, because boredom leads to the kind of innovation that creates new kinds of employment.
read more 4 comments

Don't Want to Take the Meeting? Send Your Avatar

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
In the future, everyone may have an avatar--a double who does tasks that you don't want to perform. Your avatar will make a better impression than you would and, since you program it, everyone else it deals with (who may be avatars themselves) will know that its decisions are the same as yours.
read more

Time to Go Home?

Thursday, February 17, 2011
In the US, why are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Part of the answer has to do with where you live. Economist Ronni Pavan says, "Our results show that overall up to one-third of the growth in the wage gap between the rich and the poor is driven by city size independent of workers' skills." In other words, if you...
read more

If You Work the Night Shift

Thursday, May 14, 2009

It was once thought that women working the night shift were at more risk for breast cancer, and then researchers decided this wasn't true. But a new study shows that men who work long hours under artificial lights may be a greater risk for prostate cancer.

Worldwide, countries with the highest levels of artificial light at night also...

read more
Subscribe to Unknowncountry sign up now