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The sound of a horse's whinny is created by the low frequency vibration of vocal cords combined with a high frequency whistle, a new study reveals.

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During a recent workshop, a senior executive said to me, “None of us knows how people will learn in this new era.” Lynda Gratton is a professor of management practice at London Business School and the ...

Good manners never go out of style, but they do occasionally need to be refreshed. In workplaces everywhere, that refresher couldn’t come sooner. In the decade since the previous edition of “Emily ...

Nine to five is still alive. Sort of. A new survey of labour-force data by Amory Gethin of the World Bank and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley finds that the world’s employed ...

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Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies. By Margot Sanger-Katz and Sarah Kliff The authors are covering how new requirements will reshape ...