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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...circulated in Europe for more than thirty years (see e.g. Hoehn and Szymanski (1999)). Widespread public protests and the threat of intervention by football governing bodies and national governments led to the plan being abandoned within two days. Nonetheless, the proposal was based on a clearly profitable financial plan, coming at a time when many clubs are under greater...
How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...double-digit victory. But Comey’s Oct. 28 letter to Congress, which announced that the FBI was reopening its investigation into Clinton’s State Department emails, changed the momentum of the race. Clinton retook the polling lead at the end of last week, but the final polls masked the lasting damage that the Comey letter had done to her campaign. Whatever the ultimate...
Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...double. Two halves make a whole. From that moment forward, nearly all cells in that body have the same genetic makeup. When the one-cell embryo duplicates its genetic material, both cells of the now two-cell embryo are genetically identical. When they in turn duplicate their genetic material, each cell at the four-cell stage is genetically identical. This pattern goes on...
Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...double meaning since they signify not only the football club but also the city itself. The words used in banners, and to some extent the imagery too, rely on a considerable amount of audience knowledge. This may be of popular culture (film, pop songs), of football players and managers, or of religious language and iconography. So next time you see a football banner, think...
A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime

...double-almond munched together, and the moiety of an exploded cracker. . . . The maids, I say, will have taken down all that holly stuff and nonsense about the clocks, lamps, and looking-glasses, the dear boys will be back at school, fondly thinking of the pantomime-fairies whom they have seen; whose gaudy gossamer wings are battered by this time; and whose pink cotton...
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...et al. (2018) found that swimming training with a parachute (speed resistance) improved swimming speed. Speed training can be progressed by increasing the volume (the demand that the athlete places on their body), load (resist movement or increase height in plyometrics) or frequency (number of sessions per week) of training. Speed resistance training, as with the...
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...et al., 2022), for instance the industry segment of agricultural drones or the industry segment of logistics drones. Despite much of the drone market still being in its infancy, PwC forecasts that, in the UK, agricultural and logistics drones will see the largest gains from the adoption of drone applications by 2030, with other growing industry segments including defence,...
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?

...double game: it promotes survival under some conditions, but when it senses things are getting out of control, it calls in the death squad. The way that p53 promotes survival, explains Vousden, is as a regulator of metabolism, by helping cells cope with fluctuations in the fuel supply. “This might be something that happens all the time, and you wouldn’t necessarily...