Hold on to your hats. It’s time for this week’s #FridayFunFacts.
Fordlandia
The extraordinary tale of Henry Ford’s industrial folly in the Brazilian rainforest.
#TuesdayTopFive tips for a better night's sleep
Five tips for a better night’s rest.
How an Indian vegetable company become a global IT powerhouse
Fortunately for WIPRO an entrepreneurial employee had ambitions beyond selling vegetables.
If at first you don't succeed try another 959 times
Achieving anything worthwhile requires persistence. Just ask this South Korean pensioner.
How to save a life
How a simple tweak to a form made Austria into one of the world’s largest organ donating countries.
The Scarcity Effect
We place greater value on things when they are scarce.
Hot tin hat
Sometimes in fixing one problem we end up creating another.
When the maintenance men finally saw the light.
The solution to a problem is not always as obvious as it first appears to be.
Hiding in plain sight
The importance of being observant when others aren’t.
The Similarity Bias
Why we feel things should appear a certain way based on what we’ve seen before.
Why Your Brilliant Idea Is Worthless
Successful startups are 1% idea and 99% execution. Not the other way around.
The photos that fooled Sherlock’s creator
The famous Cottingley images demonstrate how easily even an expert is mislead.
The cane toads conquering Australia
In solving one problem it’s often easy to create a new and unintended one as a consequence. Just ask the ‘Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations’ in Australia.
The difference between ‘convergent’ and ‘divergent’ research
Which is the best approach? Looking under a ‘microscope’ or gazing through a ‘telescope’?