When Jackie’s 9-year-old son came down with a low-grade fever in October, she dismissed it as a typical school bug. But his illness worsened over the next few days. “His skin tone looked gray,” she said, and his near-constant diarrhea left him unable to sleep and too delicate to stand. After two trips to the […]
Newly created by the World Health Organization published report on regulating the cross-border marketing of alcohol is causing concern in countries like Australia and Recent Zealand given their reticence in advertising alcohol. Alcohol is widely consumed in Australasia, but tensions remain over how far, if at all, the marketing of these products should be restricted. […]
Companies are often tempted to cut their marketing budgets because of the short-term savings it provides – but those cuts can cause problems in the long term. Up-to-date research from my colleague Tarun Kushwaha and I published in Marketing Magazine proposes a method to predict whether these counterproductive cuts will be made up to a […]
E-commerce can make shopping easier, but it also has a dim side that most consumers never see. Let’s say you take advantage of a sale and order an electric toothbrush and two T-shirts from Amazon. You unpack your order and discover that the electric toothbrush won’t charge and only one of the two T-shirts fits. […]
People born in the mid-1990s and early 2010s – the so-called Generation Z – face many financial challenges, from more expensive apartments Down lower salariesMany people are already postponing life plans, such as buying a house and saving for pension as a result. However, recent research into the link between smartphone addiction and compulsive shopping […]
This is the year you can finally buy a car on Amazon. Well, one kind. Finally. On November 16, 2023, at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Amazon and Hyundai made a big announcement:Getting Started sometime in 2024a recent pilot program would allow customers to not only browse Hyundai cars on Amazon.com, but also pay for […]
In the middle of Bavaria The city of Bamberg is listed as a World Heritage Site there is a hidden attraction waiting to be discovered: Market gardeners district (Untere Gärtnerei). Several hectares of garden land are surrounded by densely built and characteristic diminutive houses. The district is within walking distance of city cathedral and Old […]
The May long weekend is the unofficial start of summer. And for those of you with gardens or access to public spaces, it’s a weekend to dust off your gardening tools and visit a garden center to kick off the upcoming growing season. As the gardening season begins, it’s worth asking yourself a few questions […]
Recent Zealanders traditionally show their love for their significant other on Valentine’s Day. What better time to reveal which insect they love the most? Second Annual Mistake of the Year The contest was won by the red admiral. He received a total of 2,275 votes out of almost 17,000 votes cast by Recent Zealanders at […]
Most people are familiar with earthworms, but probably give them little thought. Some think they are “good for the soil.” Others look at them with disgust, thinking of slimy animals associated with decomposition. But these alien-looking animals are extraordinary, controlling the foundations of life from their subterranean world. Earthworms soil engineering that grow the food […]