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Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther gives a boost to diversity in STEM – a Black engineer’s take on personal and professional inspiration

Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther gives a boost to diversity in STEM – a Black engineer’s take on personal and professional inspiration

Chadwick Boseman played a superhero on the big screen, but he had a real-life superpower – the ability to inspire the next generation of underrepresented scientists, engineers and innovators. He was one of many people…

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Financial Stability Improves, but Risks Remain

Financial Stability Improves, but Risks Remain

Banks and capital markets continue to grow healthier a decade after the global financial crisis struck, but the IMF warned of increased short-term and elevated medium-term risks to stability in the Global Financial Stability Report…

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Scotland’s seafood exporters dealt new post-Brexit blow By Reuters

Scotland’s seafood exporters dealt new post-Brexit blow By Reuters

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) – The post-Brexit woes facing Scotland’s fishing industry deepened on Saturday as its biggest logistics provider, DFDS Scotland, said it would halt exports to the European Union through one of…

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Oil Up 8% in First Week of Year; Demand on Watch After Saudi Move By Investing.com

Oil Up 8% in First Week of Year; Demand on Watch After Saudi Move By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Barani KrishnanInvesting.com – Oil has started the year with a boom, ending the first week with a gain of nearly 8%, as OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia continued with its lower-for-longer supply strategy.  Since…

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Dummy’s guide to how trade rules affect access to COVID-19 vaccines

Dummy’s guide to how trade rules affect access to COVID-19 vaccines

The race is on to secure vaccines that will protect people from COVID-19. But it’s already become apparent that there is gross inequality playing out in the procurement and distribution of the new drugs. One…

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Why do smoke alarms keep going off even when there’s no smoke?

Why do smoke alarms keep going off even when there’s no smoke?

Editor’s note: MVS Chandrashekhar is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of South Carolina. In this interview, he explains how smoke detectors work and why they sometimes sound an alarm for what seems…

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IMF board, citing increased credit exposure risks, raises reserve target By Reuters

IMF board, citing increased credit exposure risks, raises reserve target By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen in Washington WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has agreed to raise the medium-term target for the…

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Supreme Court agrees to hear biofuel waiver case By Reuters

Supreme Court agrees to hear biofuel waiver case By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Clouds hover above a corn field in Dubuque (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a lower court ruling that severely limited the government’s powers to exempt…

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IMF Media Center : IMF World Economic Outlook

IMF Media Center : IMF World Economic Outlook

The global economy continues to edge higher amidst a generally sunny outlook, but there are building risks to that growth trajectory, the IMF reports Tuesday in the latest World Economic Outlook.   “The broad-based expansion…

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Biden to unveil trillions in pandemic economic relief spending next week By Reuters

Biden to unveil trillions in pandemic economic relief spending next week By Reuters

© Reuters. U.S. President-elect Joe Biden announces economics and jobs team nominees at transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware By Trevor Hunnicutt WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said Americans need more economic relief…

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