During the energy crisis and oil embargo of the 1970s, Dutch researchers began to pay close attention to the country’s energy usage. In one suburb near Amsterdam, they found that some homeowners used 30 percent less energy than their neighbors—despite the homes being of similar size and getting electricity for the same price. It turned […]

The two real fathers of Israeli hi-tech are the Arab boycott and Charles de Gaulle, because they forced on us the needto go and develop an industry. YOSSI VARDI THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK, we’ve pointed to the ways the IDF’s improvisational and antihierarchical culture follows Israelis into their start-ups and has shaped Israel’s economy. This culture, […]

The word self-esteem and images are often mistakenly used interchangeably. Self-esteem is to process a favorable opinion of oneself, while image is defined as a likeness symbol, mental picture or the reliving of a sensation is the absence of the orignal stimulus. Self-esteem should be viewed more as an end result, and self-images more as […]