It's been more than a decade since the Philadelphia 76ers began their so-called "process" to tank-the-team, earn high draft picks, and set themselves up for a bright future. This strategy has now become the norm
Alistar was the highest-priority ban of this worlds, cementing the trend of every world championship having at least one heavily-focused ban if not multiple. He had a 100% pick/ban rate and was played only five times for an 80% win rate as one of the strongest top laners at the tourna...
The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
A key lesson from this first wave was that market forces on their own weren’t enough to help first movers develop and commercialize these technologies. The initial funding required was often too high for venture capital investors, yet the commercialization risk of new techn...
“There’s a lot of activity going on, and we’ve had a weather stand down for the last couple of days, but they’re back out there now. We had up to five metres significant wave height, which is deeply unpleasant,” he says, with a seafarer’s understatement. “It’s not very...
Newer, high-performance hang-glider designs use a rigid wing with stiff aluminum struts inside the fabric to give it shape, eliminating the need for supporting cables. Hang gliding is often confused with paragliding, though the two sports are quite different from one another. Check out the ...
Riley:That's really where Kickstarter became our proof of concept. We knew that in the core market of high-end photographers and videographers, the majority knew the value of light. Traditionally though, lighting was a fairly expensive item. You would go to the B&Hs of the world, the hi...
As a result, we may be experiencing a renewal of the Solow Paradox of the 1980s, with the digital age around us but not yet visible in the productivity statistics. The importance of these waves was not equal across countries (Exhibit 4). The first wave mattered more in Sweden and the ...
A scorching heat wave in Europe didn’t stop hordes of visitors from cramming into the Greek capital this summer. In fact, the Acropolis, the country’s most visited archaeological site, was so packed that in September officialscapped the number of visitorsinto the ancient landmark at 20,000...