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...world now own about the same share of global wealth as the bottom 90% combined. It was no surprise then, particularly in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, that we also saw a large spate of protest and unrest. This saw the banks getting bailed out and the people sold out through huge cuts to the public purse through ever worsening austerity measures. 2011 was a...

...world. Interests, abilities, opportunities and academic skills have played their part – and some unconscious processes. In my PhD, investigating 'technological innovation in car production', (the introduction of robots) in the mid-1980s, in Britain and Brazil, there was a clear desire to connect with my father’s mechanical knowledge and attraction to motor vehicles....

...world civilisation as Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian explains...[A cartoon depicting Darwin presiding over a Biblical flood] Until Darwin’s regime-change in the mid-nineteenth century, when Western beliefs began the move from faith in the Bible to mass atheism, most of the Western world believed in the Noah’s Flood story. Mankind was saved and moved down the...