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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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Innovative efforts to raise wages
Money & Business

Innovative efforts to raise wages

...world...[Protesters in Washington D.C. arguing for a higher minimum wage] The need to raise wages is generally accepted as being important. The decline in what people earn and the subsequent inequality this has contributed too is undoubtedly a major contemporary problem. Less clear, however, is how to best address this issue. There are now major policy debates concerning...
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Belfast - healthy city
Society, Politics & Law

Belfast - healthy city

...World Health Organisation's Healthy Cities Project. The aim was to get as many institutions as possible to make health central to their planning and to give the diverse communities of Belfast a real say in their future. What were the challenges they faced? What solutions did they evolve? In this album Healthy Cities founder member Ilona Kickbusch and Belfast health...
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Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...world of copyright. Find out more about Richard, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Sex and Perversion When does sex bring fulfilment and when is it hollow? What are the limits of sexual expression? Roger Scruton talks about sex and perversion. Find out more about Roger, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Business Ethics Should companies consider anything...
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