The democratisation of finance isn’t going quite to plan.
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While the Paris climate talks focus on technical fixes, no one talks about how we’re much more afraid of roughing it than ever before.
Why so many are utterly compelled by shows about extremely mundane, even retro exercises such as baking, sewing and throwing pottery.
100 years ago, America’s infamous racist group staged a near-takeover of the nation’s film and media industries. Here’s how they did it.
Dopamine: a powerful substance that is much more than just a pleasure chemical.
Israeli goods produced in settlements will have to be labelled as such. Israel is calling this a boycott and raising the spectre of European anti-semitism.
Artificial intelligence programmers are burning the midnight oil to make computers better at processing complex problems. Here’s a progress report.
The Israeli PM’s ‘big lie’ about Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was of a piece with Netanyahu’s history of making false and misleading claims.
Shakespeare cast the Scottish king as the ultimate villain, but you shouldn’t believe everything you see on stage or screen
Oublié le wifi et vive le lifi ! Demain, le spectre de la lumière visible pourrait être utilisé pour se connecter à Internet. D’autant que les signaux lumineux sont modulables à souhait.
It is one of the most controversial questions in nature. Now a group of British researchers have shed light on the answer.
Internet connectivity via your lightbulb? It’s already possible with LED lights that can enlighten as well as lighten.
The canonization of an 18th century Spanish priest is causing controversy given the suffering of Native Americans in California’s missions. But there’s a bigger issue at stake here for the church.
Israel’s extreme response to Palestinian protests is simply prolonging the cycle of violence.
We have reached a point where apocalyptic vocabulary litters writing – but the end of the world has always populated paintings, and betrays a lot about contemporary concerns.
Darwin’s insights into life on Earth may have revolutionised biology, but scientists sometimes get carried away. It’s not the only game in town.
Reported “evidence” that the proposed fuel-free “EmDrive” works (and breaks the known laws of physics) is nothing of the sort.
Why the Breakthrough Listen project is a step in the right direction in our hunt for life beyond Earth.
Israel’s official policy treats stone throwing as ‘a real mortal threat’. The question is, who to?
Israel’s prime minister is using boycott fears to distract attention from his government’s increasingly right-wing agenda.
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Associate lecturer in international relations, University of St Andrews
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Research Fellow, Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews
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Associate lecturer in the school of art history, St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies, University of St Andrews
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PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer in Finance, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer, University of St Andrews
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astrophysics, University of St Andrews
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Visiting Scholar, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
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PhD Student, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer, Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
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Gifford Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
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Senior Researcher, School of Geography and the Environmen, University of Oxford, and Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Practice in International Relations, University of St Andrews
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PhD Candidate, School of Modern Languages and Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews
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Professor, University of St Andrews
