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Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?
Money & Business

Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?

...adapt to local tastes, serving a specially created blend of espresso to customers standing at a bar. Even so, it is difficult to see how Starbucks can expect to charge a premium for its Italian-style coffees. The reverse approach – seeking to leverage value on its American-style filter coffees and non-traditional drinks such as chai lattes – might prove more...
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How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?
Society, Politics & Law

How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?

...adapt the ‘truck terror’ technique already used in dreadful Nice and Berlin Christmas market incidents the year before, this time employing a small SUV to mow down dozens of pedestrians and cyclists on the iconic walkway of Westminster Bridge next to Big Ben, as a prelude to a final suicidal assault on the hard target of Parliament itself. The very high casualty toll...
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Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...adaptive berm’ to think about how to plan for this new world – a flexible accommodation of rising sea levels. Adjusting to nature rather than dominating it, the task is to live with the inevitability of rupture and to design cities that are reparable. Finally, Sennett proposes that living in an open city rests on ‘a kind of limited fraternity’ (160), in which...
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The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...adapt to new forms of communication technology on the horizon? Or will we soon be looking back at them as a nostalgic fad tied to a particular era from the past? I spoke to Keith Broni of Emojipedia to discuss what the future might bring. PS: The worldwide popularity of emojis is a little over a decade old now. On one level they’ve changed a lot in those years –...
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About the stroop test
Education & Development

About the stroop test

...adapted for use with young children...As adults, many things that we do, we do automatically, almost without thinking. We look in the correct direction before crossing the road; we travel to work without consciously making decisions about the route. Being able to do these things automatically frees up our brain to work on other, more important issues. However, on some...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Spain
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Spain

...adapted the fillings to the local produce. Religion has played a very important role in shaping Spanish baking traditions. During the Muslim invasion, Spaniards stated their Christianity by eating a lot of pork, hence the wide use of chorizo in empanada fillings and the inclusion of pork fat where other cultures would use butter. Many specialities such as tarta de...
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Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...adaptations present fictional accounts with dramatic cinematography and compelling narrative of the battles. Although they were both box office successes, the two movies were criticised by some for favouring visual impact over plot, character or narrative. Watch the official trailer from the movie ‘300’ Transcript Follow the links below to see what Herodotus says, and...
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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...adapt or combine the resources available to you in the best way you can. It’s this that results in the ‘hidden meanings’ that articles in the popular press delight in exposing to their readers, when they pruriently reveal that, for instance, ‘the snapping camera can be used by someone looking for sexting to be taken to the next level’. In fact, examples such as...
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