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The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...working class of Britain said “no” to the union created by the financial mafia, the globalists and all others.” He added: “Now we hope that Trump will win.” Moderate politicians were more cautious in their reaction. Konstantin Kosachev, an influential chairman of the Federation Council’s (the upper chamber) committee for international affairs, said he hoped...
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Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...working, ambitious, and with encyclopaedic knowledge, who became the youngest member of Reichstag at 28 for the Catholic Centre Party (Zentrumspartei). In November 1918, he ended up in a train carriage in Compiègne, signing the Armistice Agreement on behalf of the German Government. When he was told he should fulfil this role, he did not shy away from this momentous act...
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Article 15 mins
How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...working. On the other hand, organisations that act to curb digital emissions now, set themselves on a better trajectory to achieving and maintaining NetZero strategies as digital continues to become more pervasive. What can corporates do to tackle digital carbon footprints? The path towards managing and reducing digital carbon footprints is one that requires changes in...
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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...works ­– in order to be understood. [A diagram showing the correlation between average league position and wage expenditure relative to the average for the Premier League and Championship Teams 2003-2012] Figure 1 The football business market: Players and clubs We can observe that clubs compete aggressively to hire players – there is an active transfer market with...
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Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...work. With EU member states unwilling to be the one that gets ‘stuck’ with migrants on their territory, the drive is for Europe’s borders to be pushed further outwards. Rather than risk a ‘limbo’ situation where migrants become trapped in the frontline states of Greece, Bulgaria, Italy and Spain, or worse, further inland, better to shift the line between inside...
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Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...work for the rest of his life. After surviving the war and being demobilized in 1945, like millions of other returning soldiers, the one-armed Mizuki struggled to find a way to make living in rural Tottori Prefecture. He would go on to become a best-selling author, publishing hundreds of books. Thanks to the inspiration of Non Non Ba and other sources, Mizuki Shigeru drew...
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Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...work. Drugs such as aspirin act at the site of the injury to stop or at least reduce the production of messenger chemicals that stimulate the nerve endings. Another class of drugs, the opiates such as codeine and morphine, act on the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Sometimes, the aspirin-like and codeine/morphine-like drugs are combined into one remedy,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...social needs fast enough to avoid the likelihood of future global warming and other kinds of pollution. One of the alternative sources to consider is solar energy. The Sun will radiate energy until it ceases thermonuclear fusion, in around 5 billion years. About 33% of the solar power that enters the Earth's system heats the atmosphere and contributes to setting winds and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs