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How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?
Money & Business

How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?

...based in, when firms are spread across nations, they must also abide by international standards. The costs of this compliance in the banking sector is increasing at an alarming rate. One report has found that banks spent nearly US$100 billion on compliance in 2016 and the global spending on meeting the regulatory requirements increased from 15% to 25% over the previous...
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Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Nature & Environment

Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26

...based on economic principles related to the Kyoto Flexibility Mechanisms. The fear back then was about the economic costs of setting technology standards and hence the focus on flexibility. A good 0.3oC of global heating later, the fear is on climate impacts and the emphasis is now on direct actions to encourage the public and private sectors to work together to directly...
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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...based on simple feedback (as in a thermostat) but should not be confused with human communication, which has a biological basis. (ii) Second-order communication is understood from a theory of cognition which encompasses language, emotion, perception and behaviour. Amongst human beings this gives rise to new properties in the communicating partners who each have different...
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Mycoprotein - could this meat alternative be a food for the future?
Science, Maths & Technology

Mycoprotein - could this meat alternative be a food for the future?

...based alternatives to a rapidly expanding, hungry population. [Large industrial-size fermentation vats, used for producing mycoprotein]Industrial fermentation vats. More versatile farming The global food system is highly vulnerable and exposed to a multitude of risks such as: pests and pathogens, environmental degradation, climate variability, and extreme weather events....
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Back to the Future: Is time travel possible?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back to the Future: Is time travel possible?

...based on non-relativistic assumptions. This can be understood by the realisation that, for the rapidly moving muons, time runs more slowly, so allowing more of them to survive the trip. And this is what makes time travel into the future possible. Imagine that you boarded a spaceship to the star Tau Ceti, which is 12 light years away. Your spaceship can travel at 80% of...
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A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents
Education & Development

A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents

...based education services, service managers must ensure that all are embodying an empathetic and unbiased approach when working with home-educating parents. One parent also described the professionals responsible for supporting home-educating parents in her local authority as anonymous and felt that sharing information about the team members, including contact details,...
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Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...based (i.e., banking, office jobs, managers in PR and communications, etc.), and being a civil servant (i.e., working in job centres, etc.). For example, Tom expressed how he could never be a civil servant in a job centre because “they completely lack values and possess no morality whatsoever. They are playing God with peoples’ lives and don’t care for the...
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Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism
History & The Arts

Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism

...based on the biblical figure of Lot’s wife in Genesis 19, as a contemporary interpretation in the environmental context. The human figure who refuses to look back at the carpet of waste left behind, is forced to face the direct consequences of his/her behaviour when she is turned into a pillar of plastic. The second part of this body of work entitled “Instruction”...
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