A happy outcome?
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Susan Oman interviews Goldsmith’s Will Davies, author of The Happiness Industry.
“You’re offside Sepp.”
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Palestine is spearheading an international effort to get Israel booted out of FIFA – but the organisation just wants to stay out of politics.
Carly Fiorina thinks otherwise.
Gage Skidmore
Is leadership innate? Traditional studies like to suggest it is, but context matters.
Friend or foe to the job-seeker?
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An increasing number of high-skilled graduates, rather than technology, could be to blame for a decline in the UK’s mid-paying jobs.
President Park Geun-hye stresses the importance of education for all.
Jeon Han
The UN’s ambitious education program must be extended to the most marginalised and disadvantaged.
Too late lads, the Scots are already there.
Oscar Wergeland
Remarkably similar carvings and simple cross sculptures mark special sites or places once sacred, spanning a zone stretching from the Irish and Scottish coasts to Iceland. We can look to Skellig Michael…
Ireland celebrates.
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As that famous Irish poet W. B. Yeats put it; all has changed, changed utterly.
Together forever? Maybe not…
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Renegotiation, reform, repatriation - only one will work.
Boo if you dare.
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Parlez-vous Eurovision? The contest may seem more monolingual than ever, but it remains a multicultural event.
Cyber warning.
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A new threat to secure online communication could be a symptom of a wider cyber security problem.
Dark days.
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Hampshire constabulary has paid £20,000 in damages, but the underlying problems will take much more to solve.
No one asked us about these.
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Why the amount of retail sales of alcohol doesn’t add up to how much we drink.
Nanoparticles: small but deadly… to cancer.
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New research could into nanoparticles could help deliver drugs straight to the site of tumours and make them more effective when they get there.
Better said with an emoji?
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Emojis are mainly used to enhance the meaning of words in texts – they won’t replace them altogether.
An author who demands to be read.
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Anxiety is hard-wired into the modern sensibility, and the mood of Krasznahorkai’s fiction is its perfect complement.
Erik Sorto can make intuitive movments for first time in 13 years.
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A tetraplegic patient has been able to play rock, paper and scissors thanks to a prosthetic device implanted in the region of his brain thought to control intentions.
Research suggests Asians are more driven to find bargains, whatever the cost.
Mike Mozart
Research shows that Asians are more inclined than Westerners to spend too long searching online for the best deals.
The impact of motherhood.
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New research shows how complex the effect of lone parenting can be, even after children have grown up.
What’s lurking?
Sam Bald
Acanthamoeba castellanii is a very painful parasite to encounter.
Livid.
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Northern Ireland’s old sectarian divides aren’t as stark as they were – but old enemies are coming together in a war fought on sexual fronts.
The frontline of climate change.
Alba Martin-EspaÒol
Yet more doom and gloom from the bottom of the Earth.
Just enjoying a sense of agency.
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Wingsuit flying might be dangerous but that doesn’t mean all base jumpers are hedonists with a death wish.
François Hollande and education minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (right), have come under fire.
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A chorus of teachers, unions and French intellectuals have criticised reforms in lower secondary school.
Whisky galore!
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If Scotland gets control over its tax arrangements, transfer pricing within the UK will be a big problem - the amber nectar is a classic case in point.
One shell of an idea.
David Eickhoff
Making a material impact – how auxetic materials could make sports stars safer.