Financial Times
Finance can cope with cheap oil
Financial Times
Last decade, investors learnt a nasty lesson about contagion. When the price of mortgage bonds and related derivatives plunged in the summer of 2007, it initially seemed to be an isolated problem. Ben Bernanke, then Federal Reserve governor, declared ...
Financial Times
Last decade, investors learnt a nasty lesson about contagion. When the price of mortgage bonds and related derivatives plunged in the summer of 2007, it initially seemed to be an isolated problem. Ben Bernanke, then Federal Reserve governor, declared ...
Pope to make moral case for action on climate change
New Scientist
COULD one man succeed in spurring decisive action on global warming? Pope Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, plans to release a ground-breaking appeal to combat climate change, in a major document called an encyclical. Its message ...
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New Scientist
COULD one man succeed in spurring decisive action on global warming? Pope Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, plans to release a ground-breaking appeal to combat climate change, in a major document called an encyclical. Its message ...
BBC News
Smart shoe devices generate power from walking
BBC News
German researchers have built shoe-sized devices that harvest power from the act of walking. The technology could be used to power wearable electronic sensors without the need for batteries. There are two separate devices: a "shock harvester" that ...
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BBC News
German researchers have built shoe-sized devices that harvest power from the act of walking. The technology could be used to power wearable electronic sensors without the need for batteries. There are two separate devices: a "shock harvester" that ...
Financial Times
Ridicule what is sacred and you will learn
Financial Times
A caliphate is not an ideal place to grow up if you want a career as a stand-up comic. I was brought up in Birmingham, which a Fox News pundit last week described as a “totally Muslim city . . . where non-Muslims just simply don't go”. It is a modern form of ...
Financial Times
A caliphate is not an ideal place to grow up if you want a career as a stand-up comic. I was brought up in Birmingham, which a Fox News pundit last week described as a “totally Muslim city . . . where non-Muslims just simply don't go”. It is a modern form of ...
Geese use the Himalayas like a massive rollercoaster
New Scientist
Now it turns out that bar-headed geese are a bit more level-headed about how they make their gruelling trip each year from Mongolia to spend winters in warmer India. Instead of climbing to dizzying altitudes and flying in a straight line over the mountain tops, ...
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New Scientist
Now it turns out that bar-headed geese are a bit more level-headed about how they make their gruelling trip each year from Mongolia to spend winters in warmer India. Instead of climbing to dizzying altitudes and flying in a straight line over the mountain tops, ...
BBC News
Facebook at Work app aims for role in the office
BBC News
Facebook is launching a new app that aims to expand the US firm's presence within companies and other places of work. The software is designed to provide a way for users to communicate as an alternative to email and other intranet systems. The firm says ...
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BBC News
Facebook is launching a new app that aims to expand the US firm's presence within companies and other places of work. The software is designed to provide a way for users to communicate as an alternative to email and other intranet systems. The firm says ...
Financial Times
A rentier nation's fading dreams of home
Financial Times
It is said the great tide of damp mortar is turning, flowing away from the house, hitherto the very fetish object of British self-identification — think of Dickens's proud Mr Wemmick in his pocket-castle in the London burbs — and towards that dangerous continental ...
Financial Times
It is said the great tide of damp mortar is turning, flowing away from the house, hitherto the very fetish object of British self-identification — think of Dickens's proud Mr Wemmick in his pocket-castle in the London burbs — and towards that dangerous continental ...
Rome's military women have been hiding in plain sight
New Scientist
TALK about hiding in plain sight. Women are thought to have had no official role in Roman army activities. But now a monument that's been sitting in the centre of Rome for almost 2000 years is adding to the evidence that soldiers ignored a ban on marriage, ...
New Scientist
TALK about hiding in plain sight. Women are thought to have had no official role in Roman army activities. But now a monument that's been sitting in the centre of Rome for almost 2000 years is adding to the evidence that soldiers ignored a ban on marriage, ...
BBC News
Bar-headed geese: Highest bird migration tracked
BBC News
A tracking study has revealed the secrets of the world's highest bird migration - the Himalayan flight of the bar-headed goose. The geese have been recorded at heights of more than 7,000m (23,000ft). Bar-headed goose (c) Nyambayar Batbayar. Now, a team ...
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BBC News
A tracking study has revealed the secrets of the world's highest bird migration - the Himalayan flight of the bar-headed goose. The geese have been recorded at heights of more than 7,000m (23,000ft). Bar-headed goose (c) Nyambayar Batbayar. Now, a team ...
Radio Times
Broadchurch: where we left the characters at the end of series one
Radio Times
Alec Hardy, Ellie Miller, the Latimers and Reverend Paul Coates are all back for a second outing – here's their story so far... Like this? Share it. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Tumblr · Pinterest · Blogger · Reddit · VKontakt; Print; Email. Broadchurch: where we ...
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Radio Times
Alec Hardy, Ellie Miller, the Latimers and Reverend Paul Coates are all back for a second outing – here's their story so far... Like this? Share it. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Tumblr · Pinterest · Blogger · Reddit · VKontakt; Print; Email. Broadchurch: where we ...
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