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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering

...free market would dramatically challenged. Is it safe or positive to have so much of the economy revolve around the financial sector? These events call for a potential transformation of how economics and business studies are taught. Atul Shah discusses these issues in his article “It’s time to put the social impact of finance on the curriculum”. Fundamentally, there...
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The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...free movement of people. In 1960, Beresford came to work in England and to study lithography. The following year Elouise came to join him bringing their young son. It was Beresford Junior’s third birthday when their ship docked at Plymouth. They then had a train journey to London. Elouise remembers it vividly: It was June when I arrived and it was freezing cold. I...
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Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...freeing up more of their time to focus elsewhere, thus reducing the workload, stress and pressure of the role. It was also suggested that this might have the knock-on effect of making the coaching role appear more attractive to others – thus recruiting more people into the profession. ‘AI can be used for session planning and annual planning’. Coaches also talked...
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How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...course of events, p53 plays a subtle role behind the scenes. It’s not just watching and waiting to stop or kill potentially dangerous cells, but is actually helping cells to avoid or survive things that might damage them – that is, things that might trigger its anti-tumour response. In other words, p53 is playing a double game: it promotes survival under some...
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A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...free. We all crave to understand our identity, to want to belong to a group no matter how big or small. A cultural identity is just one of these, it can intersect with others such as our gender or our role in society. We want to be free to choose the parts of our heritage that we want to know more about and hold on to and other parts that we might want to let go of. We...
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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...course, they’ve always been pretty fraught in most of the world. The problem always has been the power of the fossil fuel industry; it’s the biggest, richest industry on Earth and it’s headquartered in the United States – that’s where the biggest companies are located. They’ve been able to prevent serious action on climate change for a quarter century, but...
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60 second adventures in economics: The Impossible Trinity
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: The Impossible Trinity

...courses. Transcript: Most countries trade with one another – which is usually pretty good for all involved – but it does mean it’s a bit harder for each to keep control of its own finances. There are three things that governments are particularly keen on. They like to keep the exchange rate stable so that import and export prices don’t suddenly jump around. They...
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History How-to videos: Paper and ink
History & The Arts

History How-to videos: Paper and ink

...course of writing. If the quality of the ink in your document changes, if it goes from being darker to more faint then it’s likely to be from the 18th Century or before, when people had to dip their pens in the ink far more often. During the 19th century, steel or metal nibs were introduced, which meant that the quality of the ink was much more consistent. If this is...
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