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Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?
History & The Arts

Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?

...busy solving multiple mysteries, a scene unthinkable of Doyle’s more urbane original. Indeed, series such as Sherlock and Guy Ritchie’s films paradoxically render Holmes’s intellect less threatening by elevating it to absurd heights. In The Lying Detective, for instance, Sherlock is able to predict intricate events weeks in advance. If Doyle’s skill lay in keeping...
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Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?
Nature & Environment

Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?

...Smog of 1952 which left an estimated 4,000 people dead. Such pronouncements by experts have been dismissed by the government. The IIT- Kanpur study had called for “an integrated pollution control approach in the region”, but the November smog showed that it continues to be business as usual. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people
Society, Politics & Law

Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people

...business as usual’ tone around it. While millions had hoped for a speech that would herald leadership change, two things in fact emerged - a deepening of uncertainty in Zimbabwe and the never-ending ambition of Mugabe to continue his presidency. But then again, a day is a long time in politics. November 21st came, and as his own ZANU PF and the opposition were in the...
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Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front

...business of war. The lorries crawling along the roads carried puddings by the hundredweight, and their drivers smiled broadly at the ovation accorded these munitions of Christmas in the villages through which they passed. Cottages, stables, even farmyards, were being decorated with whatever materials the temporary occupants could rake together from the little shops. The...
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John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...business model that would turn Facebook and Google into two of the World’s largest companies. Barlow’s Declaration came as a response to early attempts to police the Internet. A number of countries, most notably the United States, introduced laws favouring large companies that had the effect of crushing freedom of expression. By contrast, Barlow saw the internet as an...
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Should we tax robots who replace humans in the workplace?
Money & Business

Should we tax robots who replace humans in the workplace?

...businesses investing in automation. Discussions about automation tax policy and legislative solutions are in their very early stages. How automation helps tax avoidance In an article forthcoming in the Harvard Law and Policy Review, we argue that existing tax policies encourage automation, even when a person would be more efficient than a machine. That’s because...
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Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...busy professionals with their problems (Meltzer, 2000). So more informal ways of accessing support can be very important and contact with someone who is non-judgemental and willing to listen can help in making the first steps towards recovery. It is not only family and friends who can help; support from other people who have been through similar problems (peer support)...
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Lighting the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Lighting the Industrial Revolution

...businesses. Why did it take so long to develop the humble light bulb (1879), if electricity had been discovered and studied for more than a century before that date? It was the invention of the battery by Count Alessandro Volta in 1800 which marked a turning point in understanding and controlling the strange "fluid". For the first time, electricity could be produced by...
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