Conrad Black

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

British Businessman

Fantasia Barrino

True story - I had index cards; I would write things on them and post them on the mirror in the bathroom. And I would speak it. Because you have to speak life. You have to speak what you want. You have to watch what you say because it's power in your tongue.

American Musician

Barry Ritholtz

Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.

American Author

David Rittenhouse

In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time.

American Scientist

Bryan Cogman

After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.

American Producer

John C. Bogle

Nothing is simpler than owning the stock market and holding it forever, and that's essentially the idea behind the index fund.

American Businessman

Cyril Connolly

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

English Journalist

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

British Statesman

Jason Calacanis

Kurt Vonnegut

American Writer

An index in a book helps you quickly find specific information without reading everything.

Location Guide

Indexes are usually found at the end of non-fiction books, rarely in novels.

End of Books

An index can show the change in value or strength of something, like prices or economy.

Measurement Tool

Indexes in economics often express complex data in simpler, understandable terms.

Quantitative Insights

The general index helps readers find topics or names in documents like reports or books.

Topic Locator

Indexes often list page numbers or location details for cross-referencing content.

Cross-referencing

In computing, an index can drastically reduce the time it takes to find data in a database.

Speeds Searches

Indexes help manage and access large amounts of data efficiently in computing.

Database Efficiency

To 'index' means to systematically organize data to be easily searchable.

Systematic Organization

When you index items, you catalog them in a list or system.

Cataloging Process

Indexing wages to inflation helps maintain the purchasing power over time.

Inflation Adjustment

Economic benefits like pensions are often 'indexed' to maintain value amid changing conditions.

Economic Connection

 laughter is a phenomenally useful index of how people are regulating their emotions together. We're not just emitting it at each other to show that we like each other, we're making ourselves feel better together. Now, I don't think this is going to be limited to romantic relationships. I think this is probably going to be a characteristic of close emotional relationships such as you might have with friends,

Why we laugh PIPE Sophie...

 and do business with you, and therefore, the more you collaborate, the more competitive you become. This is quite an important discovery, and as soon as I discovered this, I felt another index coming on. I swear that as I get older, my ideas become simpler and more and more childish.

Which country does the...

 mounted in response to the vaccine. This gives us a quantitative index of how effectively the vaccine actually is working. These are the data from that study. And it's really quite remarkable after two months of training the meditators actually show a boost

The Science of a Happy...

 And this is called the leaf area index. So if you know this leaf area index, you essentially have a measure of how much photosynthesis is possible in every plant, which again tells you how healthy each plant is. By combining visual and infrared information,

The Future of Flying...

 head as it was for my body and finally life's too short to live without ice cream when i was first diagnosed i made a list of all my favorite foods and i went and did a glycemic a personal glycemic index with my glucose meter of each one

The psychological weight...

 That's very important in poorer countries, but not in the rich developed world. But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much. I'm going to show you some of the separate bits of our index.

How economic inequality...

 So, encouraged by this, naturally we went to flu viruses. And so, for the first time, I am showing this. We have three different strains of Agarikon mushrooms highly active against flu viruses. Here's the selectivity index numbers --

6 ways mushrooms can...

 These foods have a high glycemic index, the amount that a particular food raises the sugar level in your blood. Soda and white bread have a similar glycemic index because they have a similar effect on your blood sugar.

How do carbohydrates...

 around the world and most of these players are playing it almost every day. This may all sound really quite alarming to some people, an index of something worrying or wrong in society. But we're here for the good news,

Tom Chatfield: 7 ways...

 Except for my son, who said, "Well, he could have two dads." That's an index, an indicator of how things have changed. Younger men today expect to be able to balance work and family.