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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...think most people regard as rather messy systems that went before? RH: OK, so there are two things that you might have thoughts on, one is the contraction of the VED incentives, so now there’s no incentive if you have a Porsche, there’s no incentive to buy a Prius in terms of VED. And the other one is the taxation, addition to tax renewables with a tax designed in...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...system (ANS), is highly responsive to stress, and most of the communication is automatic and unconscious. The goal of the autonomic nervous system is to maintain homeostasis, and it does so by utilising its two subsystems – the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS). If a stress response is triggered, it sends signals to the...
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The machine that is still changing the world
Science, Maths & Technology

The machine that is still changing the world

...systems, entitled “The Machine that Changed the World”[i]. The book presented the findings of a thorough comparative study of the productivity of automotive manufacturers. The authors demonstrated the ways in which manufacturers such as Toyota had moved the paradigm of how cars should be made from the Ford-based mass production system to one of lean production. The...
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China and the internet
Digital & Computing

China and the internet

...think it looks a lot more fierce from here than it does from there is all I can tell you. I mean I spent some time in China, I don’t have a hard time getting anything I want over the internet, neither do they. I mean China, China has a very difficult problem, which is trying to deal with a transition from a practically feudal period into a post-industrial period...
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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...thinking about the system. “We need to look through the eyes of the healthcare providers to see the challenges and to understand where tools and techniques we use in engineering may be of value. I have no doubt that if you were to put a hundred engineers into Addenbrooke’s [Hospital], you could help transform its care.” There is a difficulty, he concedes:...
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Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial
Society, Politics & Law

Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial

...system. But how much do jurors get it wrong?...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. From CSI to Law and Order, Line of Duty and Midsomer Murders, there is huge public fascination with crime and the criminal justice system. Especially when things come to a climactic ending and jurors decide on a defendent’s fate. But how much do jurors get it wrong? Will the...
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Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...system and the election system in the USA, what do you think to that, for instance, what do you think to the Koch brothers and what they’re doing? BVB: Well, I may not comment on the Koch brothers - RH: But why not? There are two brothers and they’re spending nearly a billion dollars on the American Election and they happen to be very, very wealthy in coal, should two...
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The future of emojis
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The future of emojis

...systems, their designs have become more sophisticated. But in essence, they’re much the same as they were when they first went global. And their future seems likely to depend on these essential qualities and purposes continuing to be relevant as communications technology develops. KB: There are a number of different ways I approach this question. Firstly, I firmly...
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