The number of COVID-19 cases in the world exceeded 307 thousand people. 92 thousand recovered. 13 thousand died. When will it end? No one knows. We publish the column of the publisher of the Reminder project Maxim Kashulinsky, in which he is looking for an answer to an important question: how to make plans and just live in conditions of complete uncertainty. The main feature of today's events is that everything changes too quickly.

In 2019, an American business defense industry, Ilon Musk, showed an implant for brain communication with a computer. Has the future come? What does modern science know about the work of the brain and the nature of human consciousness? The publisher of the Reminder project, the new media about health and self -development, Maxim Kashulinsky talked with the famous scientist, head of the laboratory of neurophysiology and neurocomputer interfaces by Alexander Kaplan.

In January, we met with Anna Tsfasman , a co -founder of the Dublby Coofen network. It was one of the most amazing conversations in the REPULIC Talk series. Anna easily talked about the crisis in which the company ended up after the first year, about the problems with the buyers of the franchises, about the alarm of the growing business, which did not allow sleeping at night. I chose the most interesting fragments from a half hour conversation, accompanying them with small comments.

Armine Gevorkyan. Photo: Arseniy Nesodimov for Republic The constant use of gadgets and work at the computer gives a much greater load on the eyes of a modern person than by nature. Myths are the truth about the dangers of screens, endless devices to combat computer visual syndrome create a huge market, which is not easy to figure out.

Vladimir Putin holds a large press conference today. In recent years, these meetings with journalists, alas, do not add anything new to the image of the Russian president: all positions are clarified, interpretations of the most important news are known in advance. Should I listen? We suggest that you do not spend your attention on an informational noise that will spread throughout the day, but turn to something really useful. How to do it? Step one. Subscribe to our site with a 50% discount .

Making the impossible in a short time is the motto of many successful projects. Together with Promsvyazbank, we tell how to achieve a high result in two weeks and in a hundred days. A new credit card from PSB “100+”, which has a grace period - always one hundred and one day - allows you to plan almost any great business or simply implement a long -standing plan. Power station in 100 days In addition to electric vehicles, Ilona Mask is building Tesla Powerpack energy storage.

Artem Elmuratov. Photo: Arseniy Nesodimov for Republic The news about the collection and sending of biomaterials abroad made a lot of noise in late October. History acquired a scandalous shade partly because Russia is a rare example of a country where they are too scrupulous about biological samples, and their export is actually prohibited. The closing mode should help local companies engaged in genetic analyzes - if you send samples abroad too difficult, then why not buy a service at home.

The dialogue of economists, Ruben Enikolopova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Rash) and Konstantin Sonin (University of Chicago, NRU HSE), about what is happening in economic science and about everything else. The blog retsilizes on the Facebook page Ratioeconomica , on Twitter and on a telegram . KS: An increase in computer capacities allowed economists not only to work with large databases, but to organize such projects, about which when the data was processed manually, it was difficult to dream.

Nikolai Kartosia. Photo: Arseniy Nesodimov for Republic Nikolai Kartosia is one of the brightest Russian television producers and the co -author of two important documentary films - about Joseph Brodsky and Sasha Sokolov. He was the chief editor of the weekly program “The Past” on the Old NTV, he led the primitive broadcasting on NTV New, and in 2013 he created an entertaining television channel “Friday”.

Workers at a factory in New Delhi Adnan Abidi / Reuters This is the translation of the article by Bloomberg View Noah Smith . Other Bloomberg View columns can be found at the link . Back in April, I wrote about one of the most alarming mysteries in the economy - about the fall of the share of workers in the GDP. Less than the income produced by the economy comes to people who work, and more and more to people who possess anything. Reducing the share of workers.

Alexey Moiseev. Photo: Arseniy Nesodimov for Republic The diagnosis of "Cancer" still causes a sacred horror in any Russian. The oncologist of the Medicine multidisciplinary clinic, Alexei Moiseev, told where this fear comes from and why it is unjustified, as well as about what diseases actually lies behind this word, where and how to treat them. Subscribe to read the whole Make a subscription Redefine.media to read Republic Subscribe [you can pay for a Russian or foreign card.

The speed of implementation of quality products is the main competitive advantage of the bank. Understanding this, in Promsvyazbank moved to the use of Agile approaches, transferred mobile applications to their own development and released completely new, improved applications for iOS and Android. Why Agile?

Photo: Breater / Unsplash.com Hiring and personnel management is a conservative sphere, which is also usually entirely inside the company, obeying the director of HR. However, does it make sense to perform independent actions independently related to personnel, if you can give them a third -party structure - just as you can outsource, for example, transport operations?

There are events that cost a separate trip. It makes sense to book places on them in advance, as, however, to buy flights. You can buy them not only for money, but also for miles. With Visa Signature Alfa-Miles from Alfa Bank, with the support of which we made this list of cultural recommendations, it will also be profitable: the bank gives 10 thousand miles when opening the card until the end of July and doubled miles for each purchase. So, choose where to fly!

Mathieu Flamini and Gary Lineker. Photo: Carl Recine / Reuters, Mike Marsland / Getty Images The great football player George Best once said that when he passes away, people would not remember who he met or how many cars broke-this is just not important-but only what he was on the field. So we can say about many players. However, there are exceptions: athletes who hope to stay in memory due to what they do outside the stadium. After graduating from a sports career, many are engaged in business.