Dr Emmett Brown, Dr Victor Frankenstein and Dr Henry Jekyll are just three of the “crazy” scientists who populate fiction. Their methods were controversial and revolutionary – and I have always been especially drawn to…
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Women are drastically underrepresented in economics. Today in the US, women account for only one-third of economics majors, one-third of first-year PhD in economics students and one-third of newly minted PhDs (Lundberg and Stearns 2019). As in…
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© Reuters. Gold Holds Steady as Fed Sees Taper Likely Starting This Year (Bloomberg) — held steady after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s July meeting showed most officials agreed they could start reducing the pace…
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The current COVID-19 wave in the U.S. is mostly affecting unvaccinated Americans, who represent more than 95% of current cases of hospitalization and death. Given the average cost of a COVID-19 hospitalization in 2020 ran…
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Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi – a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, if these…
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© Reuters. 3D printed oil barrels and percentage symbols are seen in front of dollar banknotes in this illustration taken May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) -Oil prices steadied on Wednesday…
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You either love him or hate him, but Jeremy Clarkson’s documentary series about trying to get to grips with sheep rearing, tractor driving and running a farm shop at Diddly Squat Farm has certainly found…
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Ernest Addison: “CBDC presents a great opportunity to build a robust, inclusive, competitive and sustainable financial sector” The Bank of Ghana is partnering with Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to pilot a retail central bank-issued digital currency in…
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From movie suggestions to self-driving vehicles, machine learning has revolutionised modern life. Experts are now using it to help solve one of humanity’s biggest problems: climate change. With machine learning, we can use our abundance…
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© Reuters. Union flags and bunting decorate Blackfriars Bridge in London June 2, 2012. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/Files By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – The United Kingdom said on Tuesday it aims to start negotiations for a trade…
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