NEWS & BLOG

The Effect Your Posture Has on Your Body

Most of us sit all day long.  It is part and parcel of working.  But most of us don’t make the most of sitting.  We hunch over our keyboards, lower our heads to see screens better or scoot way down in our chair.  What we should be doing, is sitting up straight—as if a ribbon was running from our tailbone through the top of our head. Easier said than done, we understand.

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What You Should Know About False Memories: Experts explain

Have you ever been absolutely sure about a memory, only to have someone else remember it differently? 

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Why You Hear That High Frequency Buzzing In Your Ear

You know that weird, high pitched noise you can hear in one ear occasionally—that no one else can hear? It is not aliens trying to communicate with you, nor the ridiculously loud movie you saw at the cinema the night before. It is your body’s way of shutting off your ability to hear that frequency of noise, forever.

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Buyer Beware: What you thought was the safe option, isn't

  • Audra Oliver
  • 05-Aug-2016 15:55:34
  • Telecoms

I’ve always chosen the bigger company when given a choice about who to buy a service from.  My logic being: 1) economies of scale allow larger companies to offer a less expensive service, 2) the sheer volume of customers means bigger R&D budgets, 3) larger companies have more resource in the event something goes wrong, and 4) because they are bigger, there is more oversight, i.e. they are regulated, ‘watched’ and held publicly accountable by the media. 

In short, they are too big to fail or get it really wrong. 

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