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By Ray Tellili (2022) Micro-Credentials are going mainstream fast and the trend is set to accelerate greatly over the coming decade. Adoption is happening fastest in the anglosphere (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand), but also in the EU, OECD countries and indeed beyond. Many educational institutions are already offering Micro-Credentialing opportunities to their students….
By Ray Tellili Bank notes came into being long after bartering, shells, clay tablets, leather, and coinage.The Chinese created the first bank note in the 700s during the Tang dynasty. It was basically a bank draft. You would deposit coins with an official, who gave you a certificate (like a receipt). You could then retrieve…
By Ray Tellili Towards the end of WW2, having suffered a series of serious military setbacks Germany was desperate to develop advanced weapons that would give it a decisive advantage over the allies. So it went about compiling a list of engineers, rocket scientists, mathematicians, technicians and other relevant personnel that could help it achieve…
By Ray Tellili Are we hard-wired for war? Is our propensity for warfare genetic/biological or is it cultural or learned? Either way, the primary cause of war is human nature. There is something completely imbecilic about warfare and yet we keep engaging in it. Why is that? The main reasons seem to come down to…
(2021) In the pantheon of great human inventions lies the greatest of all life-saving inventions – the vaccine. No other medical invention has relieved human suffering to the extent vaccines have. Vaccines have had the single biggest impact on reducing child mortality rates as well as preventing lifelong disabilities. Inoculation against smallpox, one of…
By Ray Tellili Does how we sleep influence the success or failure of the ensuing day? That time you snapped, or the time you were rude and impatient, or that silly argument over nothing; perhaps it wouldn’t have happened if had you slept properly the night before or started the day right. Maybe you wouldn’t…
What is it about sports that makes it such a powerful tool for nation building, politics, business and propaganda? 3.6 billion people tuned in to watch the last Olympics — the most watched event in human history. The next 24 most watched television broadcasts in history are all sports events, almost entirely either Olympics or…
