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Executive Chairman of the NSDA Md. Faruque Hossain (2nd from right), poses with the competitors and Bangladesh delegation members on the concluding session of WorldSkills Competition 2019, at Kazan, Russia Tuesday evening.

New Avenue for Bangladesh

Life Desk :Bangladeshi competitor Nafisa Sadaf Anchol received the Best of Nation Award, the first time in the country’s history, at the World Skills Competition...

The pervasiveness of politics and the subtlety of cognitive biases mean that the academic peer review system needs reforming. Our system of just trusting scientists to be unbiased doesn't work. Like many other systems in American society, it's biased so

Scientific Judges

Alexander Danvers :How do we know what good science is? There are some good intuitive benchmarks. Good science helps us explain things that we wouldn’t...

Roots of Violence

Kimberly Key :Let’s talk about death. It’s not a popular topic, yet it is one that every single living creature has in common with each...

Moon Landing

Scott T. Allison :A half-century ago, 600 million people around the world dropped whatever they were doing to watch, in awe, as a human being...

Monster or Human?

Philip Yanos : There has been a great deal of soul-searching in my hometown of New York City recently, as the city has witnessed an...

Global growth is within everyone's reach: Expanding internationally is still a challenge, but it is certainly much easier than it was 25 years ago. We now live and work in a global economy where it is increasingly just as possible to scale one's busines

Art of Leadership in Digital Era

Camille Preston :Digital technologies have changed how we do virtually everything, and the change has been rapid. What appeared innovative when I published Rewired in...

Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Md. Nojibur Rahman (3rd from right), NSDA's EC Md. Faruque Hossain, among other delegates, are at the opening ceremony of WorldSkills Competition 2019 in Kazan, Russia.

BD competes in global skills

Life Desk :Bangladesh for the first time has made its footsteps in global skills with participation of two of its contestants at Kazan WorldSkills Competition...

Using Online Dating Apps

Gwendolyn Seidman :While online dating sites have been around since the 1990s, mobile dating apps are a more recent phenomenon, with Tinder leading the charge...

Really Want Change?

Hal Shorey :Most people who reach out to me do so because they want to change something. And so, the overall focus of this blog...

When Parents Act Like Children

Beverly D. Flaxington :I recently had the personal experience of dealing with the parents of one of my children’s dear friends, who was acting out...

Humanitarianism Not Enough

Zoe Weil :There’s an oft-told parable about a child rescuing beached starfish by throwing them back into the sea. A pragmatic adult walks by and...

Threats Of Drinking

Samoon Ahmad :For many Americans, summer is the most relaxing time of the year. Particularly when the weather is nice, millions of people around the...