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Probably everyone heard about stock exchange, especially NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) and our Polish market - GPW. We generally know that stock exchange has huge potential for growing your capital and even bigger potential for losses. The word ‘growth’ and green indexes cause faster beeping of our hearts, almost everyone would like to multiply their assets and becomes millionaire or rentiers. On the other hand, losses are even more common and there are plenty of people who went bankrupt because of investments all their money into assets on stock exchange market. If it’s so risky, why do we get into, and eventually, how exactly does it work? To understand the rules of a stock exchange, first, we should move back into the beginnings of the XVI century, when huge colonial movements have been started. In the 1602 Dutch East India Company was established to support and fund trade voyages around the globe. Demand for exporting and importing goods constantly growing, but voyages r...

Bees are probably the most important species on Earth, but when we go deeper into the hive world, we realize how little we know about them. They are incredibly hard-working, have complex habits and have a variety of jobs. I would like to share with you interesting video which explains how bees collect pollen, how their bodies are adapted for doing it very efficiently and, eventually, how they prepare bread for feeding all members of hive. Bees are so extraordinary that I decided to share one more video. Both of them are pretty short so you won’t spend the whole day watching it. :) It is about distributing jobs and responsibilities in a hive. If you liked it, I recommend you reading “Hive” written by Laline Paull.   Bees are able to gather even 140 thousands of pollen particles and it might even one-third of insect weight. I would say than the bee on this picture even more as the pollen balls attached to her legs are nearly as big as her abdomen! Qu...

The winter is coming, as one would say and with it abundance  of modern problems striking our cities all across the globe. Still the greatest danger in big city isn’t car traffic, depression, hikikomori or rugged pavements. It is something we usually debunk as conspiracy theory or marginal flaw of living in a metropolis and it is called smog. Please watch this short video about the history of this unhealthy phenomenon before proceeding further. Smog is getting bigger and bigger like a dragon in a fairy tale. Difference is only one may and will hurt us. It will take our health, closest friends and family members. In 2018 Polish Ministry of Health give a dreadful report about smog as little more then 67 thousand of people died because of it. Like you would just snapped and few little cities are gone, just like this. No one really knows how many people are damaged by this as smog not only hurts our eyes, lungs and throats it also can give enhance allergies or even fall for a...

What are you dreaming of? Dream -  something that you  want  to  happen   although  it is not very  likely Have you ever asked yourself about “what are you dreaming of”? I bet you do. I think for all of us dreams are in some way a goal. Goals can be big and small. I truly believe that dreams comes true, of course if you are dreaming of something. But is it enough only to dream? The answer is no, and you know it. Nothing happens if we don't do anything. For example, in the childhood, you heard a story about such magnificent mountains, so you have started reading more about it and dreaming day after day of the day when you’ll be standing right at the summit of the mountain. You’ve grown up, and you’ve been on most of them, you’re staying on next one. What are you dreaming of now? What was more important, mountain peak or the path you walked to be there?   Here is another one. Child dreams of to be great sportsmen and since childh...

How to get your brain to focus? Nowadays we have a lot of staff that consumes our time. This leads to losing focus for important things.Also we don't rest enough what leads us to stop being creative. Most of the time we look at different sizes screens, spend useless, harmfully our time. I know that probably all of us have this problem “How to get my brain to focus”. Let’s watch the video with Chris's talk about this. 1) Have you ever trying to get rid of the telephone for a few days or maybe week or more ? 2) What is the most boring thing that you can think of doing? 3) What is let your mind wander, that doesn’t consume your full attention ?

There is a broad variety of cybercrimes like fraud, cyberterrorism, computer as a target etc. A study by Juniper Research estimated that the cost of cybercrime could be as high as 2.5 trillion by 2020. To put it into perspective, there are only 8 countries with their GDP bigger than that. The world’s top illicit business, listing drugs, counterfeit, human trafficking,  estimates  at 0.5 trillion. You might be interested why governments don’t fight with it.  There are a few main reasons. First of all, laws around the world regulate the internet differently even though all agreed that the internet is international.  What makes "solving" cybercrimes particularly difficult is that attribution is hard. ?? Because it is so hard to pin down those involved in cybercrime, experts  believe the best way to fight it is to disrupt their activities as much as possible. The only way to protect against cybercrime is not to use the computer. You just have to accept...

Have you ever found yourself checking news feed or friends’ texts instead of doing something important? Maybe you smoke and tried to quit but always started again. It is our brain; in particular;  its rewarding system developed through thousands years of evolution. When you encounter a situation when you know you should not do something but cannot help doing it, that is exactly it. After the presentation you will not only understand why but also how to overcome it. Without further ado, I invite you to watch the TED talk below: Questions: • Do you have Facebook or any other kind of chat addiction? • What do you consider your worst habit? • Have you tried to get rid of that habit? What were the results?

One of the fundamental needs of human beings is to have a place to live in, where you can feel safe, comfortable and simply happy. Those who are especially affected by this problem are young people who are just about to define their housing needs and choose a right solution that meets these demands. Although there are only a few basic options, the thing is not that simple as it seems. One of the options is renting a flat. Renting is so common in many countries, as it gives the immediate ability to start independent life at relatively low cost. It is not necessary to have significant savings in order to rent a flat, all you need is a permanent and stable source of income. This solution could be also good for those who travel a lot, e.g. members of certain professions who often change their places of living. In such a case there is little point in buying a flat. Yet another group of people is just not attached to the place of residence, they frequently change the flat they rent, des...

Probably all of us have faced the problem of putting off some important tasks for later. A fast approaching deadline and still a lot of work to do are the duo that creates the feeling of stress we are all too familiar with. All of this is due to the invisible, but powerful force preventing us from focusing on most important things, isn't it? More seriously though, we can argue that some of these situations happen without any fault on our part. But let's be honest - most of them are because of our laziness, carelessness or recklessness. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/90/40/c3/9040c3b39ad07a9f559cd55b92527eb8.jpg The act of needlessly postponing tasks is called procrastination. Psychologists claim that procrastination is caused by the way the human brain works - it values immediate profits more than delayed rewards. Obviously, procrastination has many negative effects. For instance, a study conducted at The Ohio State University by the professor of e...