Entrepreneur
Restaurant rescue?
Jon Taffer, host and executive producer of the TV show Bar Rescue, sees problems lurking in the franchise food space. To fix them, he’s opening his own restaurant concept, called Taffer’s Tavern. Will it work?
7 min |
January - February 2020
Entrepreneur
People Are Not Data
Want to really connect with consumers? Take it from me, a guy who ran marketing at You Tube, Spotify, Google, and Instagram : You can’t rely on data alone. It’s time to build some truly human connections.
10+ min |
January - February 2020
Entrepreneur
The Founder & The Idea Man
The founder of MeUndies would have never met a man named Grease if both of them hadn’t ended up in the same federal prison. But their friendship changed everything (including the business).
10+ min |
January - February 2020
Central Florida Ag News
Garden Respite
Lakeland’s 1.2-Acre Hollis Garden Delights and Mesmerizes
4 min |
January 2020
Central Florida Ag News
CULTIVATING Communication
Auburndale FFA Member Jacquelyn Edler Wins Essay Contest Connecting Agriculture Consumers, Producers
3 min |
January 2020
Central Florida Ag News
INDUSTRY'S BEST
Meet the 2020 Citrus Hall of Fame Inductees
4 min |
January 2020
Central Florida Ag News
Ag Time WITH ABBY
New Year’s Resolutions
2 min |
January 2020
Central Florida Ag News
Healing Power Of Nature
University of Florida Teaching Horticulture therapy by
4 min |
January 2020
Central Florida Ag News
Better, Stronger, Fresher
In their constant quest to find the best genetic traits to help plants stand up better to heat, drought, flood, pests and pathogens and to find the tastiest fruits, UF/IFAS breeders develop new varieties each year.
2 min |
January 2020
Central Florida Ag News
Taste Of Something New
UF/IFAS Scientists Developing Recipe for Growing Vanilla in South Florida
3 min |
January 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Mushroom Medicine
Psilocybin is edging toward FDA approval as a treatment for particularly tough cases of depression
6 min |
January 13, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
The Big Drug That Couldn't
Sanofi had high hopes for its new cholesterol medicine. Then health-care economics kicked in
7 min |
January 13, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Frayed in Taiwan
As Hongkong Taiwan chooses between two vision of its future
10+ min |
January 13, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Chronicle of a fire foretold
Vast swaths of Australia are in flames—and the country’s plight has put a global focus on climate change
7 min |
January 13, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
The $1 Billion Solar Relic
By the time the massive Crescent Dunes plant came on line, it was already outdated
4 min |
January 13, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Carlos Ghosn's Great Escape
The auto chief’s audacious flight to Beirut isn’t the end of his battle with Japanese prosecutors—or Nissan
7 min |
January 13, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Cable Lost—But Streamers Aren't Celebrating Yet
People have been talking about the streaming era for so long that it’s hard to imagine the tipping point just happened.
1 min |
January 13, 2020
Daisy magazine
EDUCATION SYSTEM IN GHANA
High School teachers in Ghana have been on strike for the past week for non-payment of some teachers’ salaries. It also happens to be the examination week before the Christmas break. A High School teacher I spoke with confirmed he had not been paid for three months. Other teachers mentioned higher figures.As at Friday the 13th of December 2019, serious negotiations behind closed doors had been ongoing between the Teachers’ Union and the Ghana Education to resolve the impasse.That, in a nutshell, sums the state of education in Ghana.
4 min |
January/February 2020
Daisy magazine
BLACK WALL STREET
Prior to the massacre of May 31, 1921, when a mob of white men over two days burnt the black district of Greenwood to the ground, it was one of the most Affluent African American districts in the entire United States.Founded on Indian Territory in 1906 by Mr. O.C. Gurley and his family, a wealthy land owner, who purchased 40 acres of land in Tulsa, named it Greenwood after a Mississippi town. Gurley was able to purchase this land through the Dawes Act. A US Law that gave land to individual Native Americans and many Black Sharecroppers looking for better opportunities in a post-Civil War era and from racial oppression.Oklahoma was considered a safe haven and became home to more than 50 black townships in the State.
2 min |
January/February 2020
Central Florida Doctor
Polk Radiation Oncologist Offers New Treatment for Brain Cancer
A CANCER DIAGNOSIS is never good news, but a diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is probably the worst news a patient can receive.
3 min |
January 2020
Central Florida Doctor
PATIENT CARE: It's Not WHAT You Do, It's EVERYTHING You Do
PERHAPS ONE of the most fundamental aspects of medicine is patient care. Simple enough, right? But we know it’s not so cut and dry. We know patient care encompasses everything from bedside manner and cutting-edge research to patient privacy and hospital administration. In the end, doesn’t all the hard work and progress the medical community makes come down to one thing? You guessed it— the patient.
1 min |
January 2020
Central Florida Doctor
Leading By Example
New Advent CEO Has Passion for Company’s Healing Ministry
4 min |
January 2020
Central Florida Doctor
A Doctor With Heart
Winter Haven Hospital’s Bolanos Pivotal to Growing Cardiac Electrophysiology Field
4 min |
January 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Where the 737 Max Went Off Course
Changes to Boeing’s training regimen may have left pilots unprepared to handle the jet’s flawed controls
10 min |
December 23, 2019
Bloomberg Businessweek
The Wild Economics of Plain Vanilla
Watching global market forces at work in the far reaches of Madagascar
10+ min |
December 23, 2019
Bloomberg Businessweek
The Prodigal Son
Masayoshi Son is known for making outsize bets on tech startups. But current and former employees of SoftBank describe a culture of recklessness, sycophancy, and harassment.
10+ min |
December 23, 2019
Bloomberg Businessweek
The Chemicals Between Us
Japanese export curbs have exposed a vulnerability in South Korea’s development strategy
4 min |
December 23, 2019
Bloomberg Businessweek
Making Big Law More Robotic
Wilson Sonsini’s subsidiary is betting on software to cut costs by as much as 90%
3 min |
December 23, 2019
Bloomberg Businessweek
Can Boris Fill In The Blank For The U.K.'s Future?
Winning was the easy part for Johnson. To keep his promises, he faces negotiation after negotiation with very limited time
7 min |
December 23, 2019
Bloomberg Businessweek
A Big Step for the Sky Vacuums
Companies are bringing down the cost of a controversial weapon against climate change
4 min |