Attention

Scientists unlock secret of 'Girl With Pearl Earring'

Johannes Vermeer's "Girl With The Pearl Earring" is one of the world's most popular paintings and now scientists believe they know why, by measuring how the brain reacts when the work is viewed.

The Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, which houses the 17th century masterpiece, commissioned neuroscientists to measure brain output when viewing the portrait and other well-known works.

The elections and the good of the country

Politicians and analysts across the ideological spectrum are talking about the possibility of snap elections while focusing on how this would benefit one political party or another. They appear to be ignoring the bigger issue: the management - with speed, efficiency and continuity - of the public health, economic and social challenges that lie ahead.

Premature celebrations

The rift in Turkey's relations with the United States - prompted by its decision to acquire a Russian missile defense system in defiance of Washington's objections - in tandem with the consolidation of the Greece-Cyprus-Israel alliance  has, not unjustifiably, raised national expectations over Greece's geopolitical future.

Don't 'overshare' your business on social media

Content creation matters because we are living in an attention economy. Attention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems. Put simply by Matthew Crawford, "Attention is a resource?a person has only so much of it.

Intelligence chief: Not even the most important state can avoid catastrophe, unless vigilant

Director of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), George Maior told TVR1 public broadcaster late on Thursday that an event similar to the Sept. 11 attacks, when the world changed "radically" is still possible, pointing out there's the need for more attention and vigilance because "not even the most important state can be exempted from a catastrophe."