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How can we say Bitcoin is overvalued when we don't know how to value it?
Money & Business

How can we say Bitcoin is overvalued when we don't know how to value it?

...becoming less profitable to be a miner, especially as the energy required increases. At some stage the cost may exceed the price of Bitcoin, making the network less worthwhile to both mine and invest. Bitcoin may be the best known cryptocurrency but it is also losing marketshare to other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum and Litecoin. Bitcoin currently accounts for 59.4%...
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Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks
Nature & Environment

Fracking: Is it possible to persuade the public that the benefits outweigh the risks

...becomes even more important when you consider that people who feel an activity is bad are more likely to automatically judge the associated risks as high and benefits as low (based on their initial emotion-based response). But this relationship can be altered with information. Where information reduces the perception of risk, the perception of benefit goes up (and...
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The psychological impacts of climate change
Nature & Environment

The psychological impacts of climate change

...become an issue most citizens agree requires urgent action. Every day, the technological means and political consensus grows to make our societies more sustainable. What is needed now is collective, courageous action to drive things much further. What we can do It’s clear what must be done to achieve COP26’s lofty goals: stop extracting and burning fossil fuels right...
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An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
Society, Politics & Law

An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers

...becoming ever more visible in British cities. [The Conversation] But rather than finding ways to accommodate the homeless, the UK government has sought to criminalise them. From archaic vagrancy laws, to the more recent Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs), governments have been passing new laws and reviving old ones which result in the punishment of people with no...
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The science behind your Christmas dinner
Science, Maths & Technology

The science behind your Christmas dinner

...become a very important vegetable in the everyday lives of millions of people, due to their cheap farming and cooking versatility. But not everything in the potato garden is rosy. The potato plant has developed a mechanism to protect itself from predators: it contains toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids, which do no harm to the plant itself but, if ingested by us, can...
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20 things you might not know about Belfast
History & The Arts

20 things you might not know about Belfast

...become landmark structures of the city. Each of them can lift loads up to 840 tonnes. If you'd rather stick to dry land, though... 3. John Boyd Dunlop invented the pneumatic tyre in Belfast Bicycles fitted with his tyres soon started winning Belfast cycling races. One of the losers later set up a business franchise with J B Dunlop - to start producing the tyres in Dublin....
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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...convert an input to an output which may leave the system (a 'product') or become an input to another transformation. Trap A way of thinking which is inappropriate for the context or issue being explored. Worldview That view of the world which enables each observer to attribute meaning to what is observed (sometimes the German word Weltanschauung is used synonymously)....
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Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted
Society, Politics & Law

Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted

...become clear in recent days is that there will be a far more complex picture of the corporate response than we might have anticipated. At a speech in London on Wednesday, Mike Rake, the president of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), will call on company bosses to “turn up the volume” and make the case for the benefits of EU membership. The CBI argument is...
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