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Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"

...world without drawing attention to itself. I feel about Dr. Sacks as I do about all great non-fiction writers: I admire at his abilities, I am amazed that his simple prose is so effective, and of course, I am envious. All I want is to do what he does. Is that so much to ask? Here are a few of his first paragraphs. They are promises, whispered softly and calmly, that...
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Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists

...world political life inside the Bundestag. It has plenty of members who have plenty to say. It is not short of chiefs. But in the Bundestag it needs to find what the Germans call “Sachpolitiker” – MPs who can master detailed briefs inside parliamentary committees. It needs to show it can do politics just as well as it can talk about it. For a parliamentary party...
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Tim Peake’s spacewalk is no stroll in the park
Science, Maths & Technology

Tim Peake’s spacewalk is no stroll in the park

...world has been remembering David Bowie and Major Tom (who sang “Here am I, sitting in a tin can, far above the world”) we will watch with fascination as first Colonel Tim and then Major Tim float out of the ISS airlock to complete their scheduled tasks. It sounds glamorous to be an astronaut – but is it? After mending the SSU together, the two astronauts will go to...
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Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence

...world, how should governments and lawmakers respond? How can we keep best informed about which advances may impact our economy and society?...[Robot hand controlled by Artificial intelligence playing traditional board game Go.] Artificial intelligence playing GO With the use of ever more artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in the computer mediated world around us,...
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How fertility rates affect population
Science, Maths & Technology

How fertility rates affect population

...world) will inevitably lead to a stabilisation in the total world population: if the average fertility rate is about two, and the proportion of women in the population is about a half (that is, 0.5), then the population will settle down to a relatively constant value... ...eventually... ...because as Hans Rosling showed, we are still in a period of population growth. With...
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Understanding tax avoidance
Money & Business

Understanding tax avoidance

...world in her article Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts for The Atlantic. Whether or not it is legal, there is a growing majority of the population who would like to see this practice substantially reduced. A crucial issue for doing so is to increase the transparency of information between countries about tax data. It also entails ‘fixing’ what many...
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Telegram brief history. Stop
Digital & Computing

Telegram brief history. Stop

...world. However, many of the myriad ways by which we now communicate can be seen as the telegram's direct descendants. In order to trace this lineage and see where the telegram sits in the evolution of human communications, it is useful to start with the apparatus by which telegrams are sent - the telegraph. Its name comes from the Greek and can be broken down into 'tele',...
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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...world’s most respected scientists working in grain and cereals. He’s broken almost every stereotype going. He was born in the same part of Jamaica as my mother and has encountered poverty, racism and some of the educational difficulties I have. I want to find out how he has coped with and overcome these challenges, and how he became a legend in the brewing industry....
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