The economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that the amount we work would gradually shrink to as little as 15 hours a week as technology made us more productive. Not only did this not…
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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What happens in your brain when you wake up from…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind the chimneys of the Total Grandpuits oil refinery southeast of Paris By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices touched multi-month highs on Monday on expectations OPEC and…
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2/2 © Reuters. OPEC Secretary General Barkindo delivers his speech in Vienna 2/2 By Vladimir Soldatkin and Alex Lawler MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) – OPEC sees plenty of downside risks for oil markets in the first half…
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Imagine yourself as the first naturalist to stand in a place where little recorded scientific knowledge exists, like Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago or Alexander von Humboldt in the Americas in the early…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Call it the year of polar opposites. Those looking at oil and gold returns for 2020 might have blinked, had they seen the numbers back-to-back. To be sure,…
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The new year is going to be better. It has to be better. Maybe you’re one of the 74% of Americans in one survey who said they planned on hitting the reset button on Jan.…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A farmer holds different types of corn cobs in Otzolotepec By Laura Gottesdiener MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico’s main agricultural lobby on Saturday criticized the government’s decision to ban genetically modified…
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Recently, when I opened Instagram, I noticed that the usual spot for checking notifications is now a Shop tab. The Instagram blog post announcing the redesign said that the change will support small businesses and…
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© Reuters. By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Riots erupted in December in New Caledonia, a French territory in the Pacific, with protesters blockading nickel mines and challenging Brazilian mining giant Vale’s latest attempt to…
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