Silvian Marcus, the CEO of the global structural engineering firm WSP, recently showed the good people of World Architecture News around the building site—which now tops off at roughly 600 feet, less than half its final height. In his tour, Marcus explains how the building’s exceptionally thin profile is supported by a conventional central column core, but […]

The Haggler by David Segal In this week’s episode, a rare twofer. That’s right. Two aggrieved consumers, one action-stuffed column. While the rest of the world offers less for more, the Haggler delivers more for the exact same price. Pretty sweet, isn’t it? “Not really,” the Haggler can hear you say. The length of the column is […]

This interview with Shanti Atkins,president and chief strategy officer of Navex Global, which handles ethics and compliance issues, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. When you were a child, were you in leadership roles? A. Yes, if there was an opportunity to be a leader — to be the class president or run the school play — I […]

Wikipedia, What Does Judith Newman Have to Do to Get a Page? So this is how it begins. One day you’re perfectly content with your lot in life. The next, you’re browsing Wikipediaand thinking: Wait, how exactly did heget in there? Is he that much more noteworthy than I am? Paul Jolley, who finished ninth on “American Idol” […]

FOR many education advocates, the arts are a panacea: They supposedly increase test scores, generate social responsibility and turn around failing schools. Most of the supporting evidence, though, does little more than establish correlations between exposure to the arts and certain outcomes. Research that demonstrates a causal relationship has been virtually nonexistent. A few years […]

A company can become broadly hated if it alienates a large enough group of people. It may frustrate customers with poor service, anger employees with unpleasant working conditions or low pay, and fail shareholders with poor returns. Often, these shortcomings are intertwined and it’s usually enough for a company to antagonize one of these groups for its […]

Spanning thirteen blocks along Broadway, the boulevard is the epicenter for NFL fans during Super Bowl XLVIII celebrating all things football. CLICK TO READ ALL ABOUT IT

It’s a harrowing statistic, but according to the National Weather Service, about 70 percent of winter weather-related fatalities occur in an automobile. You can bet many of those vehicle-related deaths began with someone simply leaving the house to run an errand, make a short trip to visit family or friends or take care of routine business. […]

Researchers from Princeton University caused waves on the internet this week when they published a paper claiming that Facebook would lose 80 per cent of its users between 2015 and 2017. By combining “engagement trends” from Google search data with statistical models predicting the spread of infectious diseases, the paper claimed that Facebook had effectively […]

A new study of Facebook has predicted that the social network’s rapid growth will prove unsustainable and that the site will lose 80 per cent of its users between 2015 and 2017. A group of Princeton researchers has compared Facebook to a highly infectious disease, claiming that after it reaches a certain critical mass of […]